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Thomson-Jones, Katherine. BH39.N48 2008 111.85—dc22 2008016326 10987654321 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne June 21, 2008 10:20 MAC/NWA Page-iv 9780230_220478_01_prexx Contents Notes on the Editors vii Notes on the Contributors viii Introduction xi Katherine Thomson-Jones and Kathleen Stock 1 The Ontological Diversity of Visual Artworks 1 Sherri Irvin 2 New Waves in Musical Ontology 20 Andrew Kania 3 Metaphors and Musical Expressiveness 41 Saam Trivedi 4 Davidson, Metaphor and Error Theory 58 Andrew McGonigal 5 Artifact Expression 84 John Kulvicki 6 A Metaphysics of Creativity 105 Dustin Stokes 7 From Defining Art to Defining the Individual Arts: The Role of Theory in the Philosophies of Arts 125 Aaron Meskin 8 Imagining Fact and Fiction 150 Stacie Friend 9 Three Debates in Meta-Aesthetics 170 Elisabeth Schellekens 10 Aesthetic Ideals 188 Rafa¨el De Clercq v June 21, 2008 10:20 MAC/NWA Page-v 9780230_220478_01_prexx vi Contents 11 Configuring the Cognitive Imagination 203 Jonathan M. Weinberg 12 Personifying Art 224 Brian Soucek 13 Danto and Kant, Together at Last? 244 Diarmuid Costello Index 267 June 21, 2008 10:20 MAC/NWA Page-vi 9780230_220478_01_prexx Notes on the Editors Kathleen Stock is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Her research interests centre upon the nature of the imagination, and in particular problems raised by the relations between imagination and fiction. She has published articles on imaginative resistance, on the cognitive role of fiction, on mental images, and on definitions of art. Currently, she is writing a monograph on imagination and fiction. Her editing work includes Philoso- phers on Music: Experience, Meaning and Work (Oxford University Press, 2007), a collection of new writing on the philosophy of music. She is Secretary of the British Society of Aesthetics. Katherine Thomson-Jones is an assistant professor at Oberlin College. Her research interests centre on various questions in the philosophy of film, par- ticularly regarding our engagement with films, as well as aesthetic formalism 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 (Continuum Press, forthcoming). vii June 21, 2008 10:20 MAC/NWA Page-vii 9780230_220478_01_prexx Notes on the Contributors Diarmuid Costello teaches Aesthetics at the University of Warwick. He has published a number of articles at the intersection of aesthetics and art the- ory, including papers on Kant, Benjamin, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Danto, Greenberg, Fried, and Cavell. He is co-editor, with Jonathan Vickery, of Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (Berg, 2007) and, with Dominic Willsdon, of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (Tate Publishing & Cornell University Press, 2008). He is completing a monograph, Aesthetics after Modernism. Rafa¨el De Clercq holds a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he also spent six years working as a post- doctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research—Flanders. He is now at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research interests are mainly in aesthet- ics and metaphysics. In aesthetics, he has published on aesthetic ineffability, aesthetic properties, and modern architecture. Stacie Friend’s research has focused primarily on issues at the intersection of aesthetics, mind, and language, especially as these pertain to problems raised by our engagement with fictional narratives. She is a lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University in 2002. Sherri Irvin received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University, and an MS in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. She has taught at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and is now Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. She is the 2005 winner of the John Fisher Memorial Prize awarded by the American Society for Aesthetics. Andrew Kania received his MA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His main area of interest is philosophy of the arts, particu- larly music, film, and literature. He recently won the inaugural Essay Prize of the British Society for Aesthetics, for an essay on the methodology of musical ontology. viii June 21, 2008 10:20 MAC/NWA Page-viii 9780230_220478_01_prexx Notes on the Contributors ix John Kulvicki got his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2001, was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St Louis for two years and a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa for a year before coming to Dartmouth in 2004, where he is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. 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 has published on metaphor, response-dependence, and epistemology. He is 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 Secretary of the British Society for Ethical Theory and Deputy Director of the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind. Aaron Meskin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK. Before moving to Leeds, he taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His research interests include the cognitive imagination, the epistemology of artistic value and beauty, and the art of comics and graphic novels. He is Aesthetics section editor for Philosophy Compass. Elisabeth Schellekens completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2003.