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    The ethical criticism of art has recently begun to address the subject of immoral artists, with two questions seeming to dominate discussion. How does moral misconduct on the part of artists affect their work’s aesthetic value? How should the art world respond to cases of artists who have been accused of morally outrageous behaviour? Such value and policy debates are important, but they leave aside a pressing question towards which this article proposes a reorientation: What is the possible impa…Read more
  • Chaos and Form (edited book)
    with Petr Kotátko
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    Carole Maigné, ed., Formalisme esthétique: Prague et Vienne au XIXe siècle
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (2): 282. 2020.
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    Ethical Flaws in Artworks: An Argument for Contextual Conjunctivism
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (4): 453-463. 2022.
    According to Ted Nannicelli, ethical disputes about art today often concern not the controversial attitudes expressed by the works but the ways in which they have been created, that is, as well as interpretation-oriented ethical criticism of art, we find production-oriented ethical criticism. The main question that I explore in this article is: are the interpretation- and production-oriented approaches to ethical art criticism essentially disconnected or can there be a connection between them? I…Read more
  • The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts (edited book)
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2017.
    The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality. Beginning with an introduction providing historical bac…Read more
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    Contemporary Art and the Problem of Indiscernibles: An Adverbialist Approach
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 60 (1): 19-35. forthcoming.
    This paper addresses Arthur Danto’s claim that contemporary artworks, such as Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box, do not differ perceptually from ordinary objects, and that in order to see contemporary artworks as art the viewer has to move from mere experience to a meaning expressed by the work. I propose to supplement Danto’s thesis. I argue that, while some contemporary artworks may indeed be perceptually indistinguishable from ordinary objects, these works are distinguishable not only by means of mean…Read more
  • Lessons From Kafka (edited book)
    with Petr Kotátko
    Filosofia. 2021.
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    Text + Work: The Menard Case (edited book)
    with Petr Kot'átko and Martin Pokorný
    Litteraria Pragensia. 2013.
    The influence and reputation of Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, is easily comparable to the impact of groundbreaking theoretical texts. Numerous philosophers, aestheticians and theorists of literature, music, or visual arts have been induced by this short story by J.L. Borges to reconsider the status of the literary work of art, to rethink the relationship between work and text. The essays collected here move from analyses of the identity of the literary work of art, as it is explicitly es…Read more
  • Book Review (review)
    Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 40 135-141. 2011.
  • Book Review (review)
    Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 38 114-121. 2010.
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    Carole Maigné, ed., Formalisme esthétique: Prague et Vienne au XIXe siècle
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (2): 282-289. 2014.
    A review of Carole Maigné´s Formalisme esthétique: Prague et Vienne au XIXe siècle
  • Book Review (review)
    Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 36 127-132. 2009.
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    How to Make the Concepts Clear: Searle's Discussion with Derrida
    Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 161-169. 2012.