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    Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art: Essays
    British Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.
    This volume brings together seventeen previously published articles by Noel Carroll, exploring all aspects of Arthur Danto’s philosophy of art. They cover Danto.
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    Landscape Perception
    Environmental Ethics 27 (3): 245-263. 2005.
    Our primal ability to see one thing in terms of another shapes our landscape perception. Although modes of appreciation are tied to personal interests and situations, there are many lines of conflict and incompatibility between these modes. A religious point of view is unacceptable to those without religious beliefs. Background knowledge is similarly required for taking an arts or science-based view of landscape, although this knowledge can be acquired. How to cultivate responses grounded in ima…Read more
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    The Garden as an Art
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (4): 480-482. 1994.
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    Metaphor and Myth in Science and Religion (review)
    Philosophical Review 87 (2): 299-302. 1978.
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    Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid Appreciation
    University of Chicago Press. 2020.
    Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for critiques of political candidates, beach resorts, and everything in between. Yet even amid this ever-expanding sea of opinions, professional critics still hold considerable power in guiding how we make aesthetic judgements. Philosophers and lovers of ar…Read more
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    The Century of Taste
    with George Dickie
    Philosophical Review 107 (3): 459. 1998.
    George Dickie's The Century of Taste is a readable and informative guide to the family of eighteenth-century aesthetic theories that sought to explain our judgments of taste. Dickie treats the five theories he discusses out of chronological order so that he can give pride of place to his favorite view, that of David Hume. Dickie's grand narrative claims Hume "all but perfected" the theory of taste, while the associationists, on the one hand, and Kant, on the other, led it down a pair of blind al…Read more
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    Perception: A Representative Theory
    Philosophical Review 87 (4): 623. 1978.
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    Preface
    Synthese 53 (2): 157-158. 1982.
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    The study of aesthetics concerns the arts broadly conceived, as well as the nature of aesthetic experience, which includes our responses to beauty, sublimity, ugliness, and other such qualities found in works of art, nature, the built-environment and in the course of everyday life. Although the term "aesthetics" to denote this area of study goes back only to the eighteenth century with the work of Alexander Baumgarten, the field has had a long and distinguished history dating back to classical a…Read more
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    Conducting And Musical Interpretation
    British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (1): 16-29. 1996.
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    Sound and Semblance: Reflections on Musical Representation (review)
    Philosophical Review 95 (2): 284-288. 1986.
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    Thinking about Music (review)
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 20 (1): 126. 1986.
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    Philosopher, Teacher, Musician: Perspectives on Music Education
    with Estelle R. Jorgensen
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 29 (4): 113. 1995.
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    On Goodman's Query 1
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 375-387. 1981.
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    A Study of Self-Deception (review)
    Philosophical Review 92 (4): 630. 1983.
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    How words hurt: Attitude, metaphor, and oppression
    In Mary Vetterling-Braggin (ed.), Sexist language: a modern philosophical analysis, Littlefield, Adams. pp. 194--213. 1981.
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    Women, Morality, and Fiction
    Hypatia 5 (2): 76-90. 1990.
    We apply Carol Gilligan's distinction between a "male" mode of moral reasoning, focussed on justice, and a "female" mode, focussed on caring, to the reading of literature. Martha Nussbaum suggests that certain novels are works of moral philosophy. We argue that what Nussbaum sees as the special ethical contribution of such novels is in fact training in the stereotypically female mode of moral concern. We show this kind of training is appropriate to all readers of these novels, not just to women.…Read more
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    Caricature
    The Monist 58 (2): 285-293. 1974.
    That caricature succeeds at all seems paradoxical. That its dictum is “less is more” seems more puzzling still. In this paper I hope to investigate how caricature transforms exaggeration, distortion, and falsification into vehicles for succinct comment and easy identification. I shall examine and discard several views of how caricature functions, and conclude by arguing that correctly identifying a caricature is no more, and no less, paradoxical than correctly identifying any of the everyday obj…Read more
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    Ronald Moore's new book Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts seeks to offer up an account of beauty in nature rather than the beauty of nature. Moore claims his is a syncretic theory. That is, it combines the best parts of competing theories into a single comprehensive account of, in this case, our judgments of natural beauty. The syncretic impulse is a common one in philosophy. Seeing many theories, each with some strong points yet none successful overall, a natural solution i…Read more
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    On Landscapes
    British Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1): 106-108. 2011.
    (No abstract is available for this citation)
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    Humean Critics: Real or Ideal?: Articles
    British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1): 20-28. 2008.
    This paper attempts a rational reconstruction of the Humean notion of an ideal critic. Claiming that the traits of practice and comparison can only arise through the gradual accumulation of experience, I argue that Humean critics are real, not ideal. After discussing the nature of perfection and the relation of delicacy to the other Human traits, I propose two supplements to Hume's list: imaginative fluency and emotional responsiveness. I close by examining a trio of challenges to my view and su…Read more
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    Philosophy, literature, and the death of art
    Philosophical Papers 18 (1): 95-115. 1989.