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New Waves in Aesthetics Edited by Kathleen Stock and Katherine Thomson-Jones New Waves in Aesthetics NewWavesinPhilosophy SeriesEditors:VincentF.HendricksandDuncanPritchard Titlesinclude: JanKyrreBergOlsen,EvanSelingerandSørenRiis(editors) NEWWAVESINPHILOSOPHYOFTECHNOLOGY VincentF.HendricksandDuncanPritchard(editors) NEWWAVESINEPISTEMOLOGY ThomasS.Petersen,JesperRybergandClarkWolf(editors) NEWWAVESINAPPLIEDETHICS KathleenStockandKatherineThomson-Jones(editors) NEWWAVESINAESTHETICS Forthcoming: YujinNagasawaandErikWielenberg(editors) NEWWAVESINPHILOSOPHYOFRELIGION BoudewijnDeBruinandChristopherZurn(editors) NEWWAVESINPOLITICALPHILOSOPHY FutureVolumes NewWavesinPhilosophyofScience NewWavesinPhilosophyofLanguage NewWavesinPhilosophyofMathematics NewWavesinPhilosophyofMind NewWavesinMeta-Ethics NewWavesinEthics NewWavesinMetaphysics NewWavesinFormalPhilosophy NewWavesinPhilosophyofLaw NewWavesinPhilosophy SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–53797–2(hardcover) SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–53798–9(paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. 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ISBN978-0-230-22047-8(alk.paper) 1. Aesthetics. 2. Arts—Philosophy. 3. Aesthetics,Modern I. Stock,Kathleen. II. Thomson-Jones,Katherine. BH39.N482008 111(cid:2).85—dc22 2008016326 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 Contents NotesontheEditors vii NotesontheContributors viii Introduction xi KatherineThomson-JonesandKathleenStock 1 TheOntologicalDiversityofVisualArtworks 1 SherriIrvin 2 NewWavesinMusicalOntology 20 AndrewKania 3 MetaphorsandMusicalExpressiveness 41 SaamTrivedi 4 Davidson,MetaphorandErrorTheory 58 AndrewMcGonigal 5 ArtifactExpression 84 JohnKulvicki 6 AMetaphysicsofCreativity 105 DustinStokes 7 From Defining Art to Defining the Individual Arts: The Role ofTheoryinthePhilosophiesofArts 125 AaronMeskin 8 ImaginingFactandFiction 150 StacieFriend 9 ThreeDebatesinMeta-Aesthetics 170 ElisabethSchellekens 10 AestheticIdeals 188 Rafa¨elDeClercq v vi Contents 11 ConfiguringtheCognitiveImagination 203 JonathanM.Weinberg 12 PersonifyingArt 224 BrianSoucek 13 DantoandKant,TogetheratLast? 244 DiarmuidCostello Index 267 Notes on the Editors KathleenStockisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofSussex. Her research interests centre upon the nature of the imagination, and in particularproblemsraisedbytherelationsbetweenimaginationandfiction. Shehaspublishedarticlesonimaginativeresistance,onthecognitiveroleof fiction,onmentalimages,andondefinitionsofart.Currently,sheiswriting amonographonimaginationandfiction.HereditingworkincludesPhiloso- phersonMusic:Experience,MeaningandWork(OxfordUniversityPress,2007), a collection of new writing on the philosophy of music. She is Secretary of theBritishSocietyofAesthetics. Katherine Thomson-JonesisanassistantprofessoratOberlinCollege.Her researchinterestscentreonvariousquestionsinthephilosophyoffilm,par- ticularlyregardingourengagementwithfilms,aswellasaestheticformalism and the value of art. She has published articles on ethical art criticism, for- malism, narration, and empathy in film. She is also the author of Film and Aesthetics(ContinuumPress,forthcoming). vii Notes on the Contributors DiarmuidCostelloteachesAestheticsattheUniversityofWarwick.Hehas published a number of articles at the intersection of aesthetics and art the- ory,includingpapersonKant,Benjamin,Heidegger,Wittgenstein,Lyotard, Danto,Greenberg,Fried,andCavell.Heisco-editor,withJonathanVickery, ofArt:KeyContemporaryThinkers(Berg,2007)and,withDominicWillsdon, of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (Tate Publishing & Cornell University Press, 2008). He is completing a monograph, Aesthetics afterModernism. Rafae¨lDeClercqholdsadoctoraldegreeinPhilosophyfromtheKatholieke UniversiteitLeuven,Belgium,wherehealsospentsixyearsworkingasapost- doctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research—Flanders. He is now at LingnanUniversity,HongKong.Hisresearchinterestsaremainlyinaesthet- icsandmetaphysics.Inaesthetics,hehaspublishedonaestheticineffability, aestheticproperties,andmodernarchitecture. StacieFriend’sresearchhasfocusedprimarilyonissuesattheintersectionof aesthetics,mind,andlanguage,especiallyasthesepertaintoproblemsraised byourengagementwithfictionalnarratives.SheisalecturerinPhilosophyat HeythropCollege,UniversityofLondon.ShereceivedherPhDinPhilosophy fromStanfordUniversityin2002. Sherri Irvin received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University, and an MS in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. She hastaughtattheUniversityofOttawaandCarletonUniversity,andisnow AssistantProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofOklahoma.Sheisthe 2005 winner of the John Fisher Memorial Prize awarded by the American SocietyforAesthetics. Andrew Kania received his MA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. HeiscurrentlyAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatTrinityUniversityinSan Antonio, Texas. His main area of interest is philosophy of the arts, particu- larlymusic,film,andliterature.HerecentlywontheinauguralEssayPrizeof theBritishSocietyforAesthetics,foranessayonthemethodologyofmusical ontology. viii NotesontheContributors ix John Kulvicki got his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2001, was a postdoctoralfellowatWashingtonUniversityinStLouisfortwoyearsanda postdoctoralfellowatCarletonUniversityinOttawaforayearbeforecoming toDartmouthin2004,whereheisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophy. Andrew McGonigal completed his PhD at the University of Glasgow, and has held a lectureship at the University of Leeds since 2002. His current research interests include aesthetics, metaphysics, and metaethics, and he haspublishedonmetaphor,response-dependence,andepistemology.Heis currently working on papers on the autonomy of aesthetic judgment, the role of metaphor in critical responses to art, and the nature of constitutive relations in metaphysics. He has presented papers at national and interna- tional conferences and colloquia, including the annual conferences of the British Society of Aesthetics, and the American Society of Aesthetics. He is SecretaryoftheBritishSocietyforEthicalTheoryandDeputyDirectorofthe CentreforMetaphysicsandMind. AaronMeskinisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofLeeds,UK. BeforemovingtoLeeds,hetaughtatTexasTechUniversityinLubbock,Texas. His research interests include the cognitive imagination, the epistemology ofartisticvalueandbeauty,andtheartofcomicsandgraphicnovels.Heis AestheticssectioneditorforPhilosophyCompass. ElisabethSchellekenscompletedherPhDatKing’sCollegeLondonin2003. The main topic of her thesis was Aesthetic Objectivity. After working three years as a postdoctoral Research Fellow both at King’s College London and the University of Manchester, she is now Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at theUniversityofDurham.Hermainresearchinterestsincludetheepistemol- ogy of value judgments, Kant’s aesthetic theory, and aesthetic realism. She has published in all these areas, and is currently preparing a book entitled AReasonableObjectivismforAestheticJudgements. BrianSoucekhasbeenacollegiateassistantprofessorandHarperFellowin theUniversityofChicago’sSocietyofFellowssincereceivinghisPhDfrom Columbia University in 2005. In addition to various topics related to the personification of art—the subject of his dissertation—Soucek is also work- ing on projects about Sartre, opera, and eighteenth-century aesthetics. An essayonMozartandStraussappearsinTheDonGiovanniMoment(Columbia UniversityPress,2006). DustinStokesworksonthephilosophyofmindandaesthetics.Hisresearch interestsincludecreativity,imagination,mentalrepresentation,andpercep- tion. He is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, UniversityofToronto.
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