Courses Recently Taught:
MA Proseminar (2019, 2020)
The Philosophies of the Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography (co-taught with Noel Carroll Spring 2017)
Representative Publications:
Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Imagination,” in Carroll and Gibson, eds., Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature, Routledge, 2016.
"The Epistemology of Fiction and the Question of Invariant Norms," Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2014.
"That Obscure Object of Desire: The Pleasure of Painful Art" in Levinson, ed., Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014.
“Grief and Belief,” British Journal of Aesthetics, January, 2013.
“Aptness of Emotions for Fictions and Imaginings,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2011.
“Expression as Realization: Speakers’ Interests in Freedom of Speech,” Law and Philosophy, 2011.
“A Functional View of Artistic Evaluation,” Philosophical Studies, 2011.
The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art, Cornell University Press, 2000.