Noël Edward Carroll
General Information:
Place of Birth: Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York
Date of Birth: December 25, 1947
Sex: male
Marital Status: married
Home Address:
200 Christian Street, Condo 13
Philadelphia, Pa. 19147
Phone: 215-389-1270
e-mail: [email protected]
Business Address:
Philosophy Program
Graduate Program
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
Seventh Floor
New York, New York 10016
Education:
1983 PhD Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago
1976 PhD Cinema Studies, New York University
1976 MA Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago
1974 MA Cinema Studies, New York University
1970 MA Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
1969 BA Philosophy (magna cum laude), Hofstra University
References:
-George Dickie, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680
-Paul Guyer, Philosophy Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
-Peter Kivy, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Area of Specialization:
Philosophy of Art (including the philosophies of literature, fine art, motion
pictures, theater, and dance)
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Areas of Competence:
Philosophy of history, ethics, the philosophy of the emotions, social and political
philosophy. I have also taught the history of early modern philosophy several times.
Teaching experience:
2008-present Distinghished Professor, Philolosophy Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
2004-2008
Andrew W. Mellon of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Temple U.
1994 summer Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
1991- 2004 Professor of Philosophy U. of Wisconsin-Madison
1988-1991
Associate Prof. of Philosophy/Theater, Cornell University
1984-1988
Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
1983-1984
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
1983-1984
Adjunct Professor, Film, Columbia University (NYC)
1882-1984
Instructor of Philosophy, School of Visual Arts (NYC)
1982-1983
Visiting Professor, Media Studies, SUNY Buffalo
1976-1981
Assistant Prof. of Cinema New York University
Noël Carroll: Publications (in four sections)
I. Books
-Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory (Princeton: Princeton University,
Press, 1988).
-Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies of Contemporary Film Theorv (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1988).
-The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart (New York: Routledge/Methuen,
1990). This book has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish.
-Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited with David Bordwell (Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1996). This book has been translated into Korean.
-Theorizing the Moving Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
-Interpreting the Moving Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
-A Philosophy of Mass Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). This book has been
translated into Spanish and Polish.
-Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1999). This book
has been translated into French, Persian, and is being translated into Portuguese.
-Theories of Art Today, edited with an introduction by Noël Carroll (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2000). This has been translated into Chinese.
-Beyond Aesthetics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). This book has been
translated into Chinese.
-Engaging the Moving Image (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
- The Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, edited with Jinhee Choi (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 2005).
-Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton and Bodily Coping (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers,
2007).
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- Philosophy of Motion Pictures (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2008). This book is
being translated into French and Italian.
- On Criticism (London: Routledge, 2009).
- Living in an Artworld (Louisville, Kentucky: Evanston Publishing, 2012).
- Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art: Essays (New York: Columbia University Press,
accepted and under revision).
- Art in Three Dimensions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
- Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, edited with Lester Hunt (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).
- The Poetics, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Narrative, edited with an introduction by
Noël Carroll (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009}.
-Humour: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Narrative, Insight and Emotion, edited with John Gibson (University Park: Penn State
University Press, 2011).
-Classics in the Philosophy of Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation).
-Minerva’s Night Out (Oxford: Wiley, 2013).
- The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Literature, edited with John Gibson
(London: Routledge, in preparation.
II. Articles Published (or in Press):
- “Moral Change,” in Ethical Dimensions of FilmTheory, ed. Jinhee Choi and Mattias
Frey (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 43-57.
- “Rough Heroes,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 71, 4 (2013), pp. 371-376.
- “Criticism and Interpretation,” Art and Philosophy, 42 (2013), pp. 7-20.
- “Science Fiction, Philosophy and Politics,” Ethical Perspectives 20, 3 (2013), 477-493.
- with William Seeley, “Kinesthetic Understanding and Appreciation in Dance,” Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (2013), pp. 177-187.
- “Recent Approaches to Aesthetic Experience,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism 70 (2) (2012), pp. 165-177.
- “Art in the Expanded Field: Wittgenstein and Aesthetics” in Nordic Journal of
Aesthetics 23 (2012), pp. 14-31.
- “History and the Philosophy of Art” in Journal of the Philosophy of History 5 (30)
(2012), 370-382.
- “Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman: or the Justification of Literature” in Philosophy
and Literature 35 (1) (2011), pp. 168-181.
- Philosophical Insight, Emotion and Popular Fiction,” in Narrative, Emotion and Insight,
edited by Noel Carroll and John Gibson (Univeristy Park, Pa.: Penn State University
Press, 2011), pp. 245-266.
- “Character, Social Information and the Challenge of Psychology,” Philosophy and
Literature (forthcoming).
-“Art Interpretation,” British Journal of Aesthetics 51 (2) (2011), pp. 117-135.
-“Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Character” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 34/1
(2010). pp. 1-19.
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- “At the Crossroads of Ethics and Aesthetics” for Philosophy and Literature 34 (1)
(2010), pp. 248-259.
- “On the Historical Significance and Structure of Monroe Beardsley’s Aesthetics,” for
Journal of Aesthetic Education 44/1 (2010), pp, 2-10.
- “Les cul de Sacs of Enlightenment Aesthetics,” for Metaphilosophy 40 (2) (2009), pp.
157-178..
- “Art. Equality, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties,” in El 68:Memoria de los 40 anos
del Movimeinto Estuddiantil del 68, ed. by Juncia Aviles (Mexico City: Direccion
General Publicaciones UNAM), pp. 41-47.
-“On the Necessity of Theater,” for Philosophy and Literature 33, 2 (2009), pp. 435-441.
- with Margaret Moore, “Movie Music,” for The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy
of Music, ed. by Ted Gracyk and Andrew Kania (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
- “Basic Theatrical Understanding: Considerations for James Hamilton,” Journal of
Aesthetic Education, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 15-22.
- “On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and Characters in Popular Fictions,”
in Empathy: Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience, ed. by Peter Goldie and Amy
Coplan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- “Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion Picture Narration,” in
Memento, edited by Andrew Kania (London: Routledge, 2009).
-“Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology,” in Philosophy
and The Twilight Zone, ed. by Lester Hunt and Noël Carroll (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2009).
- “Monsters and the Moving Image: Replies to Laetz and Yanal,” Film and Philosophy
(2009).
- “Aesthetic Experience, Art, and Artists,” Aesthetic Experience, edited by Richard
Shusterman and Adele Tomlin (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 145-165.
- “Motion Pictures,” Cambridge Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. S. Davies et al (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2009).
- “Comedy,” Cambridge Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. S. Davies et al (Oxford: Blackwell,
2009).
- “Mass Art,” Cambridge Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. S. Davies et al (Oxford: Blackwell,
2009).
- “Style,” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Film, ed. Paisley Livingston and
Carl Plantinga (London: Routledge, 2008)
-“Narration,” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Film, ed. Paisley Livingston
and Carl Plantinga (London: Routledge, 2008).
- “Narrative Closure in Cinema,” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Film,
Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (London: Routledge, 2008).
- (with Philip Alperson), “Music, Mind, and Morality: Arousing the Body Politic,”
Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 42, no. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 1-15.
- “Talk to Them: An Introduction,” in Talk to Her, edited by Anne Westcott Eaton
(London: Routledge, 2008).
-“Philosophy in the Moving Image: Response to Bruce Russell,” in Film and Philosophy
Volume 12 (2008), pp. 17-26.
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- “Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty,” Il Mondo dell’arte il tempo dell’arte:
Prospettive sull’estetica di Arthur C. Danto, ed. by Michele Di Monte (Rome: Meltemi
Editore, forthcoming).
-“Critical Review of The Aesthetic Function of Art by Gary Iseminger, Philosophical
Quarterly (forthcoming).
- “Arthur Danto, Filosofia dell’arte e attivita critica,” in Arthur C. Danto e l’ontologia
dell’arte, ed. by T. Andina and A. Lancieri, in Rivista di estetica, no. 35 (2/(2007), pp.
67-80.
-“Critical Discussion of Art and Intention by Paisley Livingston, Philosophy and
Literature, Vol. 31, No. 2 (October, 2007), 394-404.
- (with Margaret Moore) “Not Reconciled: Comments for Peter Kivy,” Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism,Vol 65, No. 3 (Summer, 2007), pp. 318-322..
-“Consuming Passions: Sex and the City,” for Ethics and Film, Revue International de
Philosophie 64, Number 254 (2010), pp. 525-546..
-“The Problem with Movie Stars,” for Photograph and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil
of Nature, ed. by Scott Walden (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. 248-264.
-“Globalization Then and Now,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 65, No. 1
(Winter, 2007), pp. 131-142.
-"Art and Alienation," The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics, ed. by D.
Costello and D. Willsdon (London: Tate Publications, 2008), 89-99..
-"Comments for Adrian Piper," Aesthetics and Ethics, ed. by D. Costello and D. Willsdon
(London: Tate Publications, 2008), pp. 135-138.
- “Narrative Closure,” Philosophical Studies 35 (2007), pp. 1-15.
-"On the Ties that Bind," Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, ed.
William Irwin and Jorge Gracia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 89-116..
-"Narrative and the Ethical Life," Art and Ethics, ed. Garry Hagberg (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2009).
-(with Margaret Moore), "Feeling Movement: Music and Dance," for the Revue
Internationale de Philosophie (2008))..
-"Danto, the End of Art, and the Orientational Narrative," The Library of Living
Philosophers: The Philosophy of Arthur Danto (Open Court, forthcoming).
-"The Significance of Realism for the Philosophy of Art," Mimesis. Realismos Modernos
1918-1945, ed. Tomas Lorans (Madrid: Museo-Thyssen, 2007), pp. pp. 43-65, 135-155..
-(with Sally Banes), "Balanchine, Cunningham and Postmodern Dance, Dance Chronicle
V. 29 no. 1 (2006). pp. 49-68.
- "Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love,” Hitchcock and Philosophy, edited by
David Baggett and William A. Drumin (LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 2007), pp. 101-113.
-"Philosophy and Drama: Performance, Interpretation and Intentionality," Staging
Philosophy, edited by David Saltz and David Krasner (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of
Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 104-121.
-"Artistic Truth," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, ed. Donald Borchert
(New York: Thomson/Gale Publishers, 2006), Vol. I, pp. 333-337.
-"The Definition of Art," Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition , Donald Borchert,
(New York: Thomson/Gale Publishers, 2006), Vol. I, pp. 296-302.
-"Art and Interpretation, Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd Edition, ed. Donald Borchert
(New York: Thomson/Gale Publishers, 2006), Vol. I, pp. 310-315.
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-"The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween," The Undead and Philosophy,
ed. by Richard Greene (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 2006), pp. 223-235.
-"Literature, Realism and Knowledge," Senses of the World:Essays on Fiction, Narrative
and Knowledge, edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, and Luca Pocci (London:
Routledge, 2007), pp. 24-42..
-"Philosophizing through the Moving Image: The Case of Serene Velocity,"
Journal of Aesthetics and Criticism, vol. 64, no. 1(Winter 2006), pp. 173-185..
-"What Mr. Creosote Knows about Laughter," Philosophy and Monty Python, edited by
Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch (LaSalle, Illlinois: Open Court, 2006) pp. 25-35 .
-"Engaging Critics," Film Studies Issue 8 (Summer, 2006), pp. 161-169.
-"The Moving Image: Form and Fact -- Responses to Wartenberg and Light,"
Film and Philosophy, v. 10 (2006), pp. 173-182.
-"Ethics and Aesthetics: Replies to Dickie, Stecker and Livingston," The British Journal
of Aesthetics, vol. 46 no. 1 (January 2006). pp. 82-95.
-"Two Comic Plots," The Monist, vol. 88, no. 1 (January 2005), pp. 154-183.. .
-"Art and Recollection," The Journal of Aesthetic Education, v. 39, no. 2 (Summer 2005),
pp. 1-12.
-“Sympathy for the Devil,” in The Sopranos and Philosophy, ed. by Richard Greene and
Peter Vernezze (LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 2004), pp. 121-136.
-"Aesthetic Experience: A Question of Content," in Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics,
ed. Matthew Kieran (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), pp. 69-97.
-"Art and the Ethical Domain," Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, edited by Peter Kivy
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), pp. 126-151.
-"Mass Art as Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Winter 2004). pp. 61-65.
-"Art and Human Nature," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Summer 2004). pp.
95-108.
-"Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Properties," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 44, no. 4
(October 2004), pp. 413-421.
-"Art and Mood," The Monist vol. 86, no. 4 (October 2003), pp. 512-555.
-"Yvonne Rainer and the Recuperation of Everyday Life," in Yvonne Rainer: Radical
Juxtapositions 1961 -2002, ed. by Sid Sachs (Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2003),
pp. 65-87.
-"Humor," Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, edited by Jerrold Levinson. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003), pp. 344-365.
-"Dance," Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, edited by Jerrold Levinson. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003), pp. 583-93.
-"Art, Creativity, and Tradition," The Creation of Art, ed. by Berys Gaut and Paisley
Livingston (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 208-234.
-"Eisenstein's Philosophy of Film," Camera Obscura/Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of
Annette Michelson, edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey (Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University press, 2003), pp. 127-146.
-"Arthur Schopenhauer," Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, ed. by Robert
Solomon and David Sherman (Oxford: Blackwell publishers, 2003), pp. 30-42.
-"The Grotesque Today: Preliminary Notes Towards a Taxonomy," The Grotesque, ed.
by Frances Connelly (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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-"Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art," Companion to the Philosophy of
Education, ed. by Randall Curren (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003), pp. 365-383.
-"Text," Oxford Encyc1opedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 1343-1345.
-"Judson Dance Theater and the Philosophy of Dance History," (Re)Inventing Dance in
the Sixties: Everything Was Possible, ed. by Sally Banes (Madison, Wisc.: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2003), pp.81-97 .
-(with Sally Banes), "PerformanceArt/Art Performance," Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre
and Performance, ed. by Dennis Kennedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003),
vol. 2, pp.1019-1023.
- (with Sally Banes), "Modernism and Postmodernism, Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre
and Performance, ed. by Dennis Kennedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp.
866-870.
-(with Sally Banes), "Dogma Dance," in Purity and Provocation, Dogma ‘95, edited by
Mette Hjort and Scott McKenzie (London: British Film Institute, 2003), pp. 173-182..
-"Aesthetic Experience Revisited," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 42, no.1 (April
2002), pp. 14-168.
-"The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge," Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism, vol. 60, no. 1 (Winter 2002), pp. 3-26.
-"Art and Friendship," Philosophy and Literature, vol. 26, no. 1 (April 2002), pp.199206.
-"Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation," for Intepretation: Multiple or
Singular, edited by Michael Krausz (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002),
pp. 319-344.
-"Film, Feminism, and Ideology," Film and Knowledge: Integrating Images and Ideas,
ed. Kevin L. Stoehr (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2002), pp. 214-222.
-"Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film," Freud's Worst Nightmares, edited by Steven
Schneider (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
-(with Sally Banes), "Theater: Philosophy, Theory, and Criticism," Journal of Dramatic
Theory and Criticism (forthcoming).
-"Enjoyment, Indifference, and Aesthetic Experience: Comments for Robert Stecker,"
British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 41, no.1 (January 2001), pp. 81-83.
-"Interpretation, Theatrical Performance and Ontology," Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, vol. 59, no.3 (Summer 2001), pp. 313-316.
-"Mass Art: The Debate Continues," Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 35, no. 3 (Fall
2001), pp. 15-22.
-"Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol.
59, no. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 11-17.
-"Toward a Definition of Moving Picture Dance," Dance Research Journal, 33/1
(Summer 2001), pp. 46-61.
-"Foreword," Frankenstein Film Sourcebook, edited by Caroline Joan Picart, Frank
Smoot, and Jan Blodgett (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 2001), pp. vii-x.
-"TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective," Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 35,
no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 15-29.
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-"On the Narrative Connection," in New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective, edited by
Seymour Chatman and Willie van Peer (Albany: State University of New York Press,
2001), pp. 21-42.
-review article of Ethics, Evil and Fiction by Colin McGinn, Nous (2000), pp. 648-656.
-"Tropology and Narration," History and Theory 39 (October, 2000), pp. 398-404.
-"Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers,” Millennium Film
Journal, nos. 35/36 (Fall 2000), pp. 81-88.
-"On the Significance of American Experimental Image-making," Millennium Film
Journal, nos. 35/36 (Fall 2000), pp. 35-36.
-"Introducing Film Evaluation," for Reinventing Film Studies, edited by Linda Williams
and Christine Gledhill (London: Edward Arnold, 2000), pp. 265-278.
-"Intimate Laughter," Philosophy and Literature, vol. 24, no. 2 (October 2000), pp. 435450.
-"Art and Ethical Criticism," Ethics, vol. 110, no.2 (January 2000), pp. 350-387.
-"Hypothetical Intentionalism," Metaphilosophy, vol. 31, nos. 1/2 (January 2000), pp. 7595.
-"The Descent of Art," Revue Francaise D' Etudes Americaines, 86 (October 2000), pp.
11-24.
-"Photographic Traces and Documentary Film: Comments for Gregory Currie,"
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 58, no. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 303-306.
-"Art and the Domain of the Aesthetic," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 40, no. 2
(April 2000), pp. 191-208.
-"Wounded Theories in Search of a Cure: A Response to Jarvie,” in Philosophy of the
Social Sciences, vol. 30, no. 3 (September 2000), pp. 336-344.
-"Forget the Medium!" Screen-Based Art, edited by Annette Balkema and Henk Slager
(Amsterdam: Lier en Boog, 2000), pp. 55-62.
-"Race, Ethnicity and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor," for Beauty
Matters, edited by Peg Brand (Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 37-56.
-"Experimenting," One Stop Warhol (The Andy Warhol Museum webpage, forthcoming).
-"Formalism," Routledge Handbook of Aesthetics, edited by Berys Gaut and Dominic
Lopes (London: Routledge, 2000).
- (with Sally Banes) "Eisenstein, Cinematic Nation Building and the Old and New,"
Cinema and Nationhood, edited by Mette Hjort (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 121138.
-"Postmodernism," Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul Boyer
(Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 614-615.
-"Myth and the Logic of Interpretation," Interpretation, Relativism, and the Metaphysics
of Culture: Themes in the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, edited by Michael Krausz and
Richard Shusterman (Humanity Press, 1999),40-60.
-"Film, Emotion and Genre," Passionate Views, edited by Carl Plantinga and Gregg
Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 21-47.
-"Horror and Humor," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 57, no. 2 (Spring
1999), pp. 145-160.
-“Defending Mass Art: A Response to Kathleen Higgins's ‘Mass Appeal’” in Philosophy
and Literature, vol. 23, no. 2 (October 1999), pp. 378-386.
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-(with Sally Banes), "Dance, Imitation and Representation," in Philosophy and Dance,
edited by Graham McFee (Oxford: Meyer and Meyer, 1999), pp. 13-32.
-"Film Form: An Argument for a Functional Theory of Style," Style, vol. 32, no. 3 (Fall
1998), pp. 385-401.
-Danto entry for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
-Carlyle entry for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
-"The End of Art?" History and Theory, Theme Issue 37, 1998, pp. 17-29.
-"Moderate Moralism versus Moderate Autonomism," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol.
38, no. 4 (October 1998), pp. 419-424.
-(with Sally Banes) "Expression, Rhythm and Dance: A Response to Gregory Scott,"
Dance Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 15-24.
-"Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding," for Aesthetics and Ethics, edited by Jerrold
Levinson, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 128-160.
-"The Essence of Cinema?" for Philosophical Studies no. 89 (1998), pp. 323-330.
-"Is the Medium the (Moral) Message?" in Media Ethics, edited by Matthew Kieran
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 135-151.
-(with Sally Banes), "Beardsley, Expression and Dance: A Reply to Gregory Scott,"
Dance Research Journal vol. 30, no. 2 (Fall 1998), pp. 6-13.
-"Politics and Aesthetics: Historical and Conceptual Overview" Encyclopedia of
Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press, 1998), vol. 4, pp. 12-16.
-"Morality and Aesthetics: Historical and Conceptual Overview" Encyclopedia of
Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press, 1998) vol. 3, pp.278-282.
-"Motion Pictures," for Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly (Oxford
University Press, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 185-189.
-"The Professional Western: South of the Border," Back-in-the Saddle Again: New
Essays on the Western, edited by Edward Buscombe and Roberta Pearson (London: the
British Film Institute, 1998), pp. 46-62.
-"The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View," International
Postmodernism, edited by Douwe Fokkema and Hans Bertans, (Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publisher, 1997), pp. 89-102.
-"Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories," The British Journal of
Aesthetics vol. 37, no. 4 (October 1997), pp. 382-386.
- (with Sally Banes), "Marriage and the Inhuman: La Sylphide' s Narratives of
Domesticity and Community", in Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the
Romantic Ballet, edited by Lynn Garafola (Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press,
1997), pp. 91-105.
-"Simulation, Emotion and Morality," in Emotion in Postmodernism, edited by Gerhard
Hoffman and Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C, Winter, 1997), pp. 393400.
-"The Intentional Fallacy: Defending Myself,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
vol. 55, no. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 305-309.
-"Fiction, Nonfiction and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis,"
Film Theory and Philosophy, edited by Richard Allen and Murray Smith (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 173-202.
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-"Periodizing Postmodernism?" Clio, vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 143-165.
-"The Ontology of Mass Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 55, no. 2
(Spring 1997), pp. 187-199.
-“Art, Narrative and Emotion,” Emotion and the Arts, edited by Mette Hjort and Sue
Laver (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 190-211.
-"Kracauer's Theory of Film," Defining Cinema, edited by Peter Lehman (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 111-131.
-"Words, Images and Laughter," Persistence of Vision, no. 14 (1997), pp. 42-52.
-"Moderate Moralism," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 36, no.3 (July 1996), pp. 223238.
-"Film, Attention and Communication," The Great Ideas Today: 1996 (Chicago:
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1996). pp. 2-49.
-review of Truth, Fiction and Literature for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
vol. 54, no. 3 (Summer 1996), pp. 297-300.
-"The Paradox of Suspense," in Suspense: Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses and
Empirical Explorations, edited by Peter Vorderer, Hans J. Wulff and Mike Friedrichsen
(Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996), pp. 71-91.
-"Postmodernist Skepticism and the Nonfiction Film," for Post-Theory: Reconstructing
Film Studies, edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1996), pp. 283-306.
-"Prospects for Film Theory," for Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, edited by
David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), pp.
37-68.
-"Moral Realism in the Age of Postmodernism," for Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral
Turn of Postmodernism, edited by Gerhard Hoffman (Heidelberg: Verlag Carl Winter,
1996), pp. 87-96.
-"Contemporary Avant-garde Art and the Problem of Theory," Journal of Aesthetic
Education, vol. 29, no. 3 (Fall 1995) pp. 1-13.
-"Danto, Style and Intention," for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 53, no.
3, (Summer 1995), pp. 251-257.
-review of Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe in Philosophical Quarterly, vol.
45, no. 178, (January 1995), pp. 93-99.
-"Enjoying Horror Fictions: A Reply to Gaut," for British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 35,
no. 1, (January 1995), pp. 67-72.
-"Toward an Ontology of the Moving Image," for Philosophy and Film, edited by Tom
Wartenberg and Cynthia Freeland (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 69-85.
-"Cage and Philosophy," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 52, no. 1, (Winter
1994), pp. 93-98.
-review of The Nature of Fiction (by Gregory Currie) for Mind, vol. 103, no. 412,
(October 1994), pp. 69-85.
-"The Paradox of Junk Fiction," in Philosophy and Literature, vol. 18, no. 2, (October
1994), pp. 225~241.
-"Philosophical Resistance to Mass Art," in The Redefinition of Affirmation and Negation
in Contemporary Culture, edited by Gerhard Hoffman ( Heidelberg: Verlag Carl Winter
Heidelberg, 1994) pp. 297-312.
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-"Historical Narratives and the Philosophy of Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, vol. 5, no. 3, (Summer 1993), pp. 313-326.
-"Horror, Helplessness and Vulnerability: A Response to Robert Solomon,” in
Philosophy and Literature, vol. 17, no. 1, (April, 1993), pp. 110-118.
-"Anglo-American Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism: Intention and the
Hermeneutics of Suspicion," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 51, no. 2,
(Spring 1993), pp. 245-252.
-"Toward a Theory of Point-of-View Editing: Communication, Emotion and the Movies."
for Poetics Today, vol. 14, no. 1, (Spring, 1993), pp. 123-142.
-"Essence, Expression and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art," in Danto and his
Critics, edited by Mark Rollins (Oxford: Blackwell's Publishers, 1993), pp. 79- 106.
-"Dolls in Contemporary Art," in Dolls in Contemporary Art: A Metaphor of Personal
Identity, edited by Curtis Carter (Milwaukee, Wisc.: a catalogue of the Haggerty Museum
of Art, 1993) pp. 27-32.
-"Identifying Art," for Art, History, Aesthetics: Reconsiderations of Themes of George
Dickie, edited by Bob Yanal (Penn State University Press, 1993) pp. 3-38.
-"On Being Moved by Nature: Between Natural Science and Religion," in Landscape,
Natural Beauty and the Arts, edited by S. Kemal and I. Gaskell (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993), pp. 244-266.
-"Visual Metaphor," Aspects of Metaphor, edited by Jaakko Hintikka (Kluwer Publishers,
1993), pp. 189-218.
-"Film, Rhetoric and Ideology," in Explanation and Value, edited by S. Kemal and
I.Gaskell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 215-237.
-"George Dickie," an entry for the Blackwell's Companion to Aesthetics (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 1993) pp. 122-124.
-"Cognitivism, Contemporary Film Theory and Method: A Response to Warren
Buckland," Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 6, no. 2, (Spring 1992), pp.
199-219.
-"Mass Art, High Art and the Avant-garde," Philosophic Exchange, no. 23, 1992, pp. 5162.
-"The Nature of Mass Art," Philosophic Exchange, no. 23, 1992, pp. 5-37.
-"A Paradox of the Heart: A Response to Alex Neill," in Philosophical Studies, 65, 1992,
pp. 67-74.
-"Disgust or Fascination: A Response to Susan Feagin," in Philosophical Studies, 65,
1992, pp. 85-90.
-"Theater and Dance: A Philosophical Narrative," for Dance Chronicle, vol. 15, no. 3,
1992, pp. 317-331.
-"Art, Intention and Conversation," in Intention and Interpretation, edited by Gary
Iseminger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), pp. 97-131.
-"On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe," Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, vol. LI, no. 2, (June 1991), pp. 383-387.
-"Beauty and the Genealogy of Art Theory," in Philosophical Forum, vol. XXII, no. 4,
(Summer 1991), pp. 307-334.
-"On Jokes," in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. XVI, 1991, pp. 280-301.
-"Notes on the Sight Gag," for comedy/film/theory, edited by Andrew Horton (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1991) pp. 25-42.
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-"Interpretation, History and Narrative," The Monist, vol. 73, no. 2, (April 1990), pp. 134166.
-review of David Novitz's Knowledge. Fiction and Imagination, in Journal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism, vol. 48, no. 2, (Spring 1990), pp.167-69.
-"Buster Keaton, The General and Visible Intelligibility" in Close Viewings, edited by
Peter Lehman (Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp. 125-140.
-"The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm," in Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism, vol. 48, no. 4, (Fall 1990), pp. 349-360. Reprinted in Feminism and
Tradition in Aesthetics, edited by Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer,
(University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1995), pp. 371-391.
-"Notes on Dreyer's Vampyr," in Persistence of Vision, no. 8, 1990, pp. 5-14.
-review article of Arthur Danto's recent work in aesthetics in History and Theory, vol.
xxix, no. 1, 1990, pp. 111-124 .
-"Buster Keaton: Film Acting as Action," Making Visible the Invisible, edited by C.
Zucker (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1990) pp. 198-223.
-"Film Editing," International Encylopedia of Communication, vol. 2 edited by E.
Barnouw (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) pp. 171-173.
-"Clive Bell's Aesthetic Hypothesis," in Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology, edited by
George Dickie, Richard Sclafani and Ronald Roblin (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1989), pp. 84-95.
-"Interpreting Citizen Kane," in Persistence of Vision no. 7, 1989, pp. 51-62.
-"Film/Mind Analogies: The Case of Hugo Munsterberg," in Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism, vol. XLVI, no. 4, (Summer 1988), pp. 489-499.
-"Art, Practice and Narrative," in The Monist, vol. 71, no. 2, (April 1988), pp. 140- 156.
-"As the Dial Turns: Gossip, Scandal and the Common Good," Boston Review, vol. XIII,
no. 1, (February 1988), pp. 5-6, 20-21 (This is an essay on TV soap operas).
-"Anti-Illusionism in Modern and Postmodern Art," in Leonardo, vol. 21, no. 3, 1998, pp.
297-304.
-article-review of Time, Narrative and History by David Carr in History and Theory:
Studies in the Philosophy of History, vol. XXVII, no. 3, 1988, pp. 297-306.
-"Photography, Construction and Discourse," in Photography on the Edge, edited by
Curtis Carter (Milwaukee: The Haggerty Museum of Art, 1988), pp. 33-42.
-"Hans Richter's Struggle for Film," Millennium Film Journal, no. 19 (Fall/Winter 87
/88), pp. 104-112.
-"The Nature of Horror," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. XLVI, no. 1 (Fall
1987), pp. 51-59.
-"Illusions of Postmodernism," Raritan, vol. 11, no. 2, (Fall 1987), pp. 143-155.
-"Belsey, Language and Realism," Philosophy and Literature, vol. 11, no. 1, (April
1987), pp. 124-135.
-"Can Government Arts' Funding Be Justified Theoretically?" in Journal of Aesthetic
Education, vol. 21, no. 1, (Spring 1987), pp. 21-35.
-"Concerning Uniqueness Claims for Photographic and Cinematic Representation," in
Dialectics and Humanism, no.2, 1987, pp. 29-43.
-"Conspiracy Theories of Representation," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, no. 17,
1987, pp. 395-412.
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-"Trois propositions pour une critique de la danse contemporaine," in La Danse au Defi,
edited by Michele Febvre (Montreal: Parachute, 1987) pp. 177-188.
-"A Brief Comment on Frampton's Notion of Metahistory," in Millennium Film Journal,
nos. 16/17/18, (Fall/Winter 86/87), pp. 63-79.
-"Art and Interaction," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. XLV, no. 1, (Fall
1986), pp. 57-68.
-"A New Theory of Pictures," Raritan, vol. 6, no. 1, (Summer, 1986), pp. 138-146.
-"Back to Basics," Wilson Quarterly, vol. X, no. 3, (Summer 1986), pp. 58-69. Reprinted
in American Media: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, edited by Douglas Gomery, Philip
Cook and Lawrence W. Licthy (Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1989),
pp. 111-123.
-"Performance," Formations, vol. XIX, no. 1, (Spring 1986), pp. 63-79.
-"Notes on Movie Music" (with Patrick Carroll), Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol.
XIX, no. 1, (Spring 1986), pp. 73-81.
-"Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art: Life in the Dead Zone," in
Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art, edited by Curtis Carter (Milwaukee:
Haggerty Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 14-23.
-"The Power of Movies," Daedalus, vol. 114, no. 4, (Fall 1985), pp. 74-103.
-review of "The Moving Camera: A Series of Performance and Video Collaborations,"
Dance Magazine, vol. LIX, no. 3, (March 1985).
-"The Specificity of Media in the Arts," in The Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol.19,
no. 4, (Winter, 1985), pp. 5-20.
-"Formalism and Critical Evaluation," in The Reasons of Art, edited by Peter McCormick
(Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1985) pp. 327-335.
-"Film," in The Postmodern Moment, edited by S. Trachtenberg (Westport, Ct.:
Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 100-133.
-"Herzog, Presence and Paradox," in Persistence of Vision, no. 2, 1985, pp. 30-40.
-"Lang and Pabst: Paradigms of Early Sound," in Film Sound: Theory and Practice,
edited by E. Weis and J. Belton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 265277. This article is a reprinting of my "Lang, Pabst and Sound," from Cine-tracts, no.
5.
-"Toward a Theory of Film Suspense," Persistence of Vision, Summer, 1984, pp. 65-89.
-"Hume's Standard of Taste," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. XLIII, no. 2,
(Winter 1984), pp. 181-194.
-review of Christian Metz's The Imaginary Signifier, Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, vol. XLIII, no. 2, (Winter 1984), pp. 211-216.
-"Medium-Specificity and the Self-Consciously Invented Arts: Film, Video and
Photography," in Millennium Film Journal, (Fall/Winter 1984), pp. 127-153.
-"King Kong: Ape and Essence," in Planks of Reason, edited by Barry Grant (Metuchen,
New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1984) pp. 215-244.
-"The Return of the Repressed: The Re-Emergence of Expression in Contemporary
American Dance," Dance Theatre Journal, vol. 2, no.1, 1984, pp. 16-18, 27.
-"Introducing Laura Dean's Choreography," Dance and Dancers, no. 401, (May 1983),
pp. 33-35.
-"Art, Film and Ideology," Millennium Film Journal, no. 13, (Fall/Winter 1983-84), pp.
120-132.
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-"A Select View of Earthlings: Ping Chong's Theater," The Drama Review, vol. 27, no. 1,
(Spring 1983) (T-97) pp. 72-81. Reprinted as a catalogue essay by the Brooklyn
Academy of Music for its Next Wave Festival in 1984.
-(with Sally Banes), "Merce Cunningham and Marcel Duchamp." in Labanews, vol. 2.
no. 4. Reprinted in the U.S.A. in Ballet Review, vol. 11, no. 2, (Summer 1983), pp. 73-79.
-"Reply to Heath," October, no. 27, (Winter 1983), pp. 81-102.
-"Nothing But a Man and The Cool World," in The American New Wave, edited by M.
Ward and B. Jenkins (Minneapolis: A Walker Art Center/Buffalo Media Study Traveling
Catalogue, 1983) pp. 41-47.
-"From Real to Reel: Entangled in Nonfiction Film," in Philosophic Exchange, 1983, pp.
5-43.
-"Reply to Carol Brownson and Jack Wolf," in Philosophic Exchange, 1983, pp. 59-64.
-"Address to the Heathen," October, no. 23, (Winter 1982), pp. 89-163.
-"Amy Taubin's Bag," Millennium Film Journal, no. 12, (Fall/Winter 1982-83), pp. 6877.
-review of Cavell's Pursuits of Happiness, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
vol. XLI, no. 1, (Fall 1982), pp. 102-106.
-(with Sally Banes), "Working and Dancing," Dance Research Journal, philosophy issue,
vol. 15, no. 1, (Fall 1982), pp. 37-41. This article has been reprinted in Aesthetics: A
Critical Anthology (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989) pp. 644-650.
-"The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (And Beyond),” October, no. 20,
(Spring 1982), pp. 51-81.
-"Causation, the Ampliation of Movement and Avant-garde Film," Millennium Film
Journal, no. 5 (Fall/Winter 1981-82), pp. 61-82.
-"Comments on Paul Ziff' s 'About the Appreciation of Dance,’” in Philosophical Essays
on Dance, edited by G. Meyers (NewYork: Dance Horizons, 1981).
-"Language and Cinema," Millennium Film Journal, nos. 7/8/9 (Fall/Winter 1981-1982),
pp.186-217 .
-"Interview with a WomanWho.. . ," Millennium Film Journal, nos. 7/8/9 (Fall/Winter
1981-82), pp. 37-69.
-review of Dardis' Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down, in Quarterly Review of
Film Studies, vol. 6, no. 4 (Fall 1981), pp. 413-419.
-"Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings,” Film
Quarterly, vol. XXXIV, no. 3 (Spring 1981), pp. 16-25. An expanded version of this
article was reprinted in The Anxious Object, edited by Moshe Lazar (Udena Press, 1983)
pp. 91-105.
-"Post-Modern Dance and Expression," Philosophical Essays on Dance, edited by G.
Fancher and G. Meyers (New York: Dance Horizons, 1981) pp. 95-104.
-"Becky Sharp Takes Over," The English Novel and the Movies, edited by M. Klein and
G.Parker (New York: Ungar, 1981), pp. 108-131.
-review of Keith Cohen's Film and Fiction, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol.
XXXIX, no. 1 (Fall 1980), pp. 102-104.
-"Identity and Difference: From Ritual Symbolism to Condensation in Anger's
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome," Millennium Film Journal, no. 6 (Spring 1980), pp.
31-42.
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-"The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot in Sirk's Magnificent Obsession,"
The New York Literary Forum, melodrama issue, edited by Dan Gerould, vol. 7, 1980,
pp. 197-206.
-"The Mystery Plays of Michael Kirby," The Drama Review, Sept. 1979 (T-83) pp. 103112.
-"Avant-Garde Film and Film Theory," Millennium Film Journal, nos. 4/5 summer/fall
1979, pp. 135-144.
-"The Solo Self," The Drama Review, March 1979 (T-81) pp. 51-58.
-"Toward a Theory of Film Editing," Millennium Film Journal, no. 3 winter/spring, 1979,
pp. 79-99.
-"Film History and Film Theory: Outline of an Institutional Theory of Film," Film
Reader, no. 4, 1979, pp. 81-96.
-"The Gold Rush," Wide-Angle, comedy issue, vol. 3, no.2, 1979, pp. 42-49.
-"Brakhage's Text of Light" (with Bruce Jenkins), Film Culture, nos. 67/68/69 (1979),
pp. 135-138. This is a reprint of our program notes for the premiere of the film at the Art
Institute of Chicago in May of 1975.
-"Organic Analysis," The Drama Review, Sept. 1978 (T-79) pp. 33-44.
-"The Cabinet of Dr. Kracauer," Millennium Film Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, spring/summer,
1978, pp. 77-85.
-review of Moews' Keaton, Film Reader, no. 3, Feb. 1978, pp. 247-248.
-"Welles and Kafka," Film Reader, no. 3. Feb. 1978, pp. 180-188.
-"Mind, Medium and Metaphor in Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Made," Film
Quarterly, vol. XXXI, no. 2, winter 1977-78, pp. 37-44.
-"Entr'acte, Dada and Paris," Millennium Film Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 1977-78),
pp. 5-11.
-"White on White: Self's Successful Symmetries," The Reader (Chicago), vol. 5, no. 25,
March 26, 1976, pp. 22-23.
-"Air Dancing," The Drama Review, vol. 19, no. 1, March, 1975 (T-65) pp. 73-75.
-"Three Male Choreographers," Artforum, vol. XIII, no. 1, March 1975, pp. 73-75.
-review of Christian Metz's Film Language in Film Comment, vol. 10, no. 6,
November/December, 1974, pp. 61-63.
-review of Douglas Dunn, Artforum, vol. XIII, no. 1, Sept. 1974, p. 86.
-review of Mabou Mines, Artforum, vol. XIII, no. 9. May 1974, p 78.
-"Joan Jonas: Making the Image Visible," Artforum, vol. XII, no. 8, April 1974, pp. 5253.
-review of Burch's Theory of Film Practice, Film Comment, vol. 10, no. 2, March 1974,
pp. 57-59.
-review of Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean, Artforum, vol. XII, no. 6, March 1974, pp.8285.
-"For God and Country," Artforum, vol. XI, no. 5, Jan. 1973, pp. 56-60.
-review of Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed, Film Comment, vol. 9, no. 1,
(January/February 1973), pp. 62-64.
III. Journalism
As a journalist, I have written in the areas of film, dance, theater, performance art,
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video and television. I have been published in In These Times, Wisdom's Child, The Soho
Weekly News, and The Village Voice. I have written around one hundred articles for
newspapers including features, reviews and interviews. I have not listed them, but
can supply more information about them if necessary. For two and a half years I was a
staff writer for The Soho Weekly News. Also, I regularly contributed to Dance
Magazine for roughly three years, writing approximately ten articles for them.
IV. Screen Writing
-"Film as Collage," Film and Video Review, WNET, aired 1982, Robin Leventhal,
producer.
- (with Sally Banes) "Dancing with the Camera," Film and Video Review, WNET, aired
1982, Linda Romano, producer.
-"Sexual Poetics: New Films by Women," Film and Video Review, WNET, aired 1983,
Robin Leventhal, producer.
-"Film as Play," Film and Video Review, WNET, aired 1983, Robin Leventhal, producer.
-"The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet," 1998, produced by Sally Banes,
shown at: Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance at the
American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina, 1998; Cinematheque
Ontario; Oxford University; Center for Performance Research (Aberystwyth, Wales), and
at the Society for Dance History Scholars Annual Meeting (Eugene, Oregon). This
documentary is distributed by Artworks Video.
Lectures, papers, presentations, public talks and panel discussions:
- “Defending the Content Approach to the Aesthetic Experience of Art,” Keynote
address: Conference on Art and Aesthetic Experience,” University of Ottawa, 2014
-“Peter Kivy and the Philosophy of Literature,” American Philosophical Association,
Easter Division Meetings, Baltimore, 2013.
- “The Philosophy of Humor,” a series of four lectures at the University of Leiden, the
Netherlands, 2013.
- “Humor and Ethics,” Keynote address, Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific
University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 2013.
- “Criticism and Interpretation,” International Aesthetics Society, Krakow, Poland, 2013.
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- “Humor and Ethics,” Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London,
2013.
- “Humor and Ethics,” Keynote address, Eastern Division Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Philadelphia, 2013.
- “Humor and Ethics,” Keynote address, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference,
University of Puget Sound, Washington, 2013.
- “On Stephen Davies’ Artful Species,” An Author Meets Critics Session of the Pacific
Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 2013.
- “Moral Change,” Conference on Moral Psychology and Fiction, Nova Conference
Center, Trondheim, Norway, 2012.
- “Comments on Alessandro Giovannelli,” Eastern Division Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, 2012.
- “On Frank Moore’s Art: Toxic Beauty,” Humanities Institute, NYU, 2013.
- “The Arts, the Emotions, and Evolution,” Carpe Diem Arts Center, Lisbon, Portugal
2012.
- “The Creative Audience: Imaginative Responses to Fiction,” Plenary Address to the
European Aesthetics Society meetings, Braga, Portugal, 2012.
- “Morality and Humor,” Plenary Address, Conference on Art, Ethics, and Politics,
University of Nanterre, Paris, France 2012.
- “The Arts, the Emotions and Evolution,” French Society for Aesthetics, 2012, Paris,
France.
- “Character, Social Information and the Challenge of Social Psychology,” Plenary
Address to the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image, New York
University, New York, 2012.
- “Morality and Humor,” Plenary Address for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
at California State College at San Diego, San Diego CA. 2012.
-“Response to A. Giovenelli’s Modes of Sympathy” Eastern Division Meetings of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Philadelphia, Pa. 2012.
- “Morlality and Humor,” The Wartofsky Lecture, Philosophy Colloquium, Graduate
Center, CUNY 2012.
- “Morality and Humor,” Conference on Art and Ethics, University Of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan 2012.
- “The Arts, Emotion and Evolution,” the Pacific Division Meetings of the American
Association of Philosophy, Seattle, Washington, 2012.
- “From Covering Laws to Historical Narration,” Society for the Philosophy of History,
Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle
Washington, 2012.
- “Morality and Humor,” Plenary Address to the Long Island Philosophical Association,
Molloy College, Rockville Center, New York, 2012
- “The Language of Architecture?” for the Architecture Center, at the American Institute
of Architecture, New York City, New York, 2012.
- “Morality and Humor,” Philosophy Dept. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland,
2012.
-“Uses of History: The Orientational Narrative,” American Society for Aesthetics,
Tampa, Florida 2011.
- “The Exorcist” for Fearmongers, New York, New York 2011.
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- “From Purism to the Interanimation of the Arts, Plenary Address for the School of
Visual Arts’s Conference Border Crossings, New York, New York, 2011.
- “Anglophone Aesthetics meets Materialist Aesthetics,” Philosophy East and West
Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. 2011.
- ‘Philosophizing Through the Moving Image,” for Welt Der Grunde, 22nd German
Congress of Philosophy, Munich, Germany, 2011.
- “Hitchcock’s Vertig” Munich Film Museum, Munich, Germany 2011.
- “Humor, Cognition and Emotion,” Ohio Univseristy, Athens Ohio, 2011.
- “Art and Aesthetic Experience,” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2011.
- “Art and Morality,” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2011.
- “Art and Knowledge,” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2011.
- “Humor, Cognition and Emotion,” Plenary Address, Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, 2011.
- “The Arts, the Emotions, and Evolution,” Aesthetics Group Meeting, Central Divisison
Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, 2011.
- “On Criticism: Author meets Critics Session,” Central Division Meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, 2011.
- “Comic Amusement, Cognition and Emotions,” London Aesthetics Circle, University
of London, UK 2011.
- “Music, Dance and Expression,” Thinking Through Dance Conference, University of
Roehampton, UK 2011.
- “Comic Amusement, Cognition and Emotion, “Philosophy Department, University of
Leeds, UK 2011.
- “Fictional Characters and the Challenge of Psychology,” Aesthetics Circle, University
of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
- “The Arts, the Emotions, and Evolution,” the Humanities Center, Yale University,
2011.
-“Comic Amusement, Cognition, and Emotion” Philosophy Department, University of
Illinois at Chicago, 2010.
- “Recent Developments in the Analysis of Aesthetic Experience,” Keynote Address, XV
National Congress of Philosophy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
- “The Task of Criticism,” National University Institute of the Arts, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 2010.
-“The Creative Audience: The Imagination in our Response to Fictional Narratives,”
Conference on Philosophy and Creativity, Barnard College, 2010.
-panelist, “The Vampire Revival,” The New Yorker Festival, 2010.
-“Art Interpretation,” The Wollheim Memorial Lecture, British Society for Aesthetics,
Heythorpe College, University of London, United Kingdom, 2010
- “Comic Amusement, Cognition and Emotion,” Keynote Address, International
Congress of Aesthetics, University of Peking, Beijing, China, 2010..
-“The Nature of Humour,” Shangdon University, Jian, China, 2010
- Art in an Expanded Field,” 3rd Annual British Wittgenstein Conference, Philosophy
Dept., University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2010.
- Recent Analyses of Aesthetic Experience,” Keynote address of “Art and Experience”
conference, Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2010.
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- Philosophizing through the Moving Image,” Artemis Conference on Film and
Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2010.
- Movies, the Moral Emotions and Sympathy, Universid El Bosque, Bogota, Columbia,
2010.
- Comic Amusement, Emotion and Cognition,” University of the Andes, Bogota,
Columbia, 2010.
- Philosophical Insight, Emotion and Popular Fiction,” Columbian American Center,
Medellin, Columbia, 2010.
-Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” Keynote address. Grupo de Investigacion
– Teoria e Historia del Arte En Columbia, Instituto Filosofia, Universidad de Antioquia,
Medellin, Columbia, 2010.
- Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” keynote address, Graduate Student
Conference in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York, 2010.
- Photographic Weight and Weightlessness,” Symposium on the Weight of Photography,
Center for Humanities, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2010.
- Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” Philosophy Department, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2010.
- Options for Contemporary Dance Criticism,” Conference on Performance, Center for
Humanities, University of Minho, Portugal, 2009.
- “Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard,”
Film Dept., New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.
-“Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Philosophy and Motion Pictures,” Film and
Philosophy Research Group, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2009
- “Comments on Bazin on Superimposition,” Philadelphia Film Consortium, Temple
University, Philadelphia, 2009.
- “Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” Humanities Lecture, Marist College,
2009.
- Interviewed in public about my book On Criticism at the Sidewalk Café, New York
City.
-“Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard”
Series on Narrative, Philosophy and Religion Colloquium, Humanities Center, Boston
University, Boston, Mass.
- “Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” Philosophy Dept., Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
-“Philosophical Insight, Emotion and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard,”
the Film Program, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.
- “Visual Humour: Emotion, Cognition, and Cartoons with Captions,” Conference on the
Visual Arts and Cognition,” Philosophy Dept., University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 2009.
- “Art, Emotion, and Ethics: Author Meets Critics, Pacific Division Meetings of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Vancouver, Canada, 2009.
- On the Necessity of Theater,” Author Meets Critics, Pacific Division Meetings of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar, Ca., 2009.
- panel discussant, “Aestheticians and Critics: Should the Twain Ever Meet,” Eastern
Div. Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, Philadelphia, 2009.
- “Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition,” Philosophy Dept., Texas Tech.
University, Lubbock, Texas, 2009.
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- “Dead Ends of Englightenment Aesthetics: A Meta-Philosophy of Art,” Philosophy
Dept., Texas Tech. University, Lubbock, Texas, 2009.
- “Comic Amusement, Emotion and Cognition,” Conference on the Emotions,
Philosophy Dept., University of Texas at Austin, Texas, 2009.
- “Dead Ends of Enlightenment Aesthetics: A Meta-Philosophy of Art,” Public Lecture,
Nassau Community College, Hempstead, New York, 2008.
- “Subjectivity, the Emotions, and the Movies,” Conference on the Expression of
Subjectivity and the Arts,” Universidad Politecnia de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2008.
- “A Meta-Philosophy of Art,” Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2008.
- “On Criticism,” Meeting of the Graduate Faculty, Graduate Center, City University of
New York.
- “On the Significance and Structure of Monroe Beardsely’s Aesthetics,” annual meetings
of the American Society for Aesthetics, Northampton, Mass., 2008.
- (with Margaret Moore), “Three Problems in the Philosophy of Movie Music,”
Conference on the Soundtrack: the Perception and Representation of Sound in Film,
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle, Paris, France, 2008.
- Panelist, Workshop on the Objectivity of Value, Philosophy Department, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2008.
- “Art, Equality, and the Avant-garde in the Early Sixties,” Centro Cultural Iniversitario,
National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008.
- “On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and Characters in Popular Fictions,”
Workshop on Emotions and Reading Literature, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the
Arts, Heath, Mass., 2008.
- “The Problem with Movie Stars,” Philosophy Dept., University of Paris – Sorbonne,
Paris, France, 2008.
- (with Margaret Moore), “Music, Dance and Kinesthetic Communication,” Conference
on Philosophy and Dance,” University of Nancy, France, 2008.
-“Evaluation: Problems and Prospects,” Workshop on Objectivity and Value, Philosophy
Dept., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2008.
- “Art and Alienation,” The Kalter Lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2008.
- “The Problem with Movie Stars,” Cinema Dept., University of Delaware-Newark, 2008.
- “Mystifying Movies: the Constructive Approach,” annual meetings of the Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., 2008.
- “A Critical Discussion of James Hamilton’s Art of Theater,” Philosophy Dept., Kansas
State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 2007.
- “Feeling Movement: Music and Dance,” Philosophy Dept., Kansas State University,
Manhattan, Kansas, 2007.
- “Les Culs de Sac of Enlightenment Aesthetics,” Conference on Aesthetic Judgment,
New York University, New York, 2007.
- “The Philosophy of Motion Pictures: Responses to My Critics,” Author Meets Critics
Session, annual meetings of the American Society for Aestehtics, Los Angelos,
California, 2007.
- “The Philosophy of Halloween,” Franklin and Marshall University, Lancaster, Pa.,
2007.
- “Les Culs de Sac of Enlightenment Aesthetics,” Aesthetics Conference in Honor of
Gary Iseminger,” Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 2007.
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- (with Margaret Moore), “Feeling Movement: Music and Dance,” Aesthetics and
Psychology Conference, University of Durham, Durham, U.K.
- “The Problem with Movie Stars,” Film Dept., University of Kent, Canberbury, U.K.
- “Dance and Art: Collaborations,” panelist, Philotectes Center, New York City, 2007.
-“Comic Plotting,” Conference on Emotions and Humor,” Museu Nogueira da Silva,
Humanities Center, University Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2007.
-“On the Nature of the Motion Picture Shot,” Realism and Representation Seminar,
Communications Dept., University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2007.
-“Narrative Closure,” Philosophy Dept., CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 2007.
-Discussant, “Contesting Theory,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard
University, Boston, 2007.
-“Literary Realism, Recognition and the Communication of Knowledge,” Keynote
Address, Fifth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., 2007.
-“Narrative Closure,” Philosophy Dept., University of Madrid, Spain, 2007.
-(with Philip Alperson), “Music, Mind and Morality,” University of Murcia, Spain, 2007.
- “A Critical Discussion of The Aesthetic Function of Art,” Pacific Division Meetings of
the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 2007.
-“Introducing Comedy Incarnate” and “Responses to My Critics,” Author Meets Critics
session, Pacific Div. Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar
Conference Grounds, Monterey, California, 2007.
-“Narrative Closure,” Philosophy Dept., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,
2007.
-“Comments on Tom Gunning’s ‘What’s the Point of an Index,’ Philadelphia Film
Consortium, Temple University, 2007.”
-“Buster Keaton’s The General, for Sonic Cinema, the Relache Music Ensemble,
International House, Philadelphia,, 2007
-“Art and Intention,”American Philosophical Association, Eastern Div. Meetings,
Washington D.C., 2006.
-“Emotions and Moods,” Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, 2006.
-Art and Globalization: Then and Now,” Conference on Globalism, Temple University,
2006.
-“On the Ties that Bind,” Inaugural Presentation, Philadelphia Film Consortium, Temple
University, 2006.
-“Narrative Closure,” Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Free Library,
Philadelphia, 2006.
-“On the Ties that Bind,” Philosophy Dept., University of Rhodes, South Africa, 2006.
-“Literary Realism, Recognition, and Knowledge,” Philosophy Department, University of
Capetown, 2006.
-“Narrative Closure,” Public Lecture, University of Capetown, South Africa, 2006.
-“Solidarity,” keynote address, Empathy Conference, California State College at
Fullerton, 2006.
-“Anglophone Aesthetics meets Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics,” Conference on
Comparative Philosophy: East and West, Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy,
Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
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-“Emotions in Everyday Life,” Conference on Comparative Philosophy: East and West,
Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam 2006.
-“Consumerism and the Media,” Conference on Comparative Philosophy: East and West,
Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
- “Narrative Closure,” keynote address, Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium, Oberlin
College, 2006.
-"Literary Realism, Recognition and Knowledge," Philosophy Dept., University of
Maryland at College Park, 2006.
-"Comments on Janet Wolff," Center for the Humanities, Temple University, 2006.
-"Art and Globalization: Then and Now," The Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts,
Mumbai, India, 2006.
-"On the Ties that Bind," Philosophy Dept., Union College, Schnectady, N.Y., 2006.
-"The Significance of Realism for the Philosophy of Art," Museo-Thyssen, Madrid,
Spain, 2005.
-"On the Ties that Bind," Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
-"On the Ties that Bind," Center for the Study of the Humanities, University of Minho,
Portugal, 2005.
-"Art and Alienation," Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, Florida, 2005.
-"The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween," Center for Humanities, Temple
University, 2005.
-(with Margaret Moore), "Feeling Movement: Music and Dance," Philadelphia
Philosophy Consortium, 2005.
-(with Sally Banes) "Balanchine, Cunningham, and Postmodern Dance," Society for
Dance History, Northwestern U., 2005.
-"Two Comic Plots," Philosophy Symposium, Hunter College, New York, 2005.
-"Art and Alienation," Mellon Lecture, Center for Humanities, Temple University, 2005.
-"Two Comic Plots," Center for Humanities, Temple University, 2005.
-"On the Ties That Bind," Keynote Address, Eastern Div. Meeting of the American
Society for Aesthetics, 2005.
-"Art and Alienation," Tate Modern, London, U.K., 2004.
-"Comments for Adrian Piper," Tate Modern, London, U.K., 2004.
-"Author Meets Critics: Replies to Light and Wartenberg," Society for the Study of the
Contemporary Visual Arts, Eastern Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, Boston, 2004.
-"Engaging My Critics: Smith, Choi, and Freeland," Cognitive Film Studies Conference,
Calvin College, Michigan, 2004.
-"On the Ties that Bind," Conference on Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular
Culture, SUNY Buffalo, 2004.
-"Art and Recollection," Philosophy Department, Temple University, 2003.
-"Art and Human Nature," Fifth Annual Seymour Riklin Memorial Lecture, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan, 2002.
-"Art and Recollection," (read for me by Peter Kivy) Annual Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Miami, Florida, 2002.
-"The Grotesque," Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan, 2002.
-"Aesthetic Experience Revisited," Philosophy Department, Stanford University, Ca. ,
2002 .
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-"A Taxonomy of the Grotesque," "Unruly Passions" Conference, University of
Southampton, U.K. 2002.
-"Aesthetic Experience Revisited," Philosophy Dept., University of Cincinnati, 2002.
-"Aesthetic Experience Revisited," Philosophy Dept., University of British Columbia,
2002.
-"The Philosophy of Dance History," Acts of Criticism Conference, Institute for Dance
and Choreography, Cork, Ireland, 2001.
-"Comments on Kania and Batori on Film, Fiction, and Simulation," American Society
for Aesthetics, Minneapolis, Minn., 2001.
-"Values in Film," presenter and co-moderator, Conference on Ethics and Art, Arizona
State University, 2001.
-"The Appropriation of Ritual Objects," presenter and co-moderator, Conference on
Ethics and Art, Arizona State University, 2001.
-"The End of Art?" Philosophy and Art Departments, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
-"Art and Human Nature," The Killeen Lecture, St. Norbert's College, 2001.
"Aesthetic Experience and the Demarcation Problem I," presenter and discussion leader
at the St. Olaf and Carlton College Philosophy Retreat, 2001.
-"Aesthetic Experience. and the Demarcation Problem II," presenter and discussion
leader at the. St. Olaf and Carlton College Philosophy Retreat, 2001.
-"Art and Morality," presenter and discussion leader at the St. Olaf and Carlton College
Philosophy Retreat, 2001.
-"Morality and Humor," presenter and discussion leader at the St. Olaf and Carlton
College Philosophy Retreat, 2001.
-"Aesthetic Experience Revisited," Plenary Address, British Society for Aesthetics,
Oxford, 2001.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," The third annual Meeting of Italian and American Philosophers,
Rome, 2001.
-"Comments on Lopes and Hopkins on Visual Representation," Pacific Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 2001.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," Conference on Art and Morality, Dept. of Philosophy,
University of California at Riverside, 2001.
-"The Grotesque Today," Conference on Violence in the Cinema, Humanities Center,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2001.
-"Comments on Schneider and Prince on Contemporary Horror Films," Conference on
Violence in the Cinema, Humanities Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2001.
-"What is Visual Culture?" speaker/moderator for the Visual Culture Study Group,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," Humanities Lecture, Bryn Mawr College, 2001.
-"Art and Friendship," the Madison Repertory Theater, Madison, Wisconsin, 2001.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," Philosophy Dept., Ohio State University, 2001.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," Presidential Address, the Annual Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Reno, Nevada, 2000.
-"The Wheel of Virtue," Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
-"Art and the Domain of the Aesthetic," Plenary Address, Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference, Augustana College, Illinois, 2000.
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-"Ideology and Film," Society for the Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Central
Div. Meetings of the APA, 2000.
-"Intimate Laughter: On Ted Cohen's Jokes," Author Meets Critics Session, Central Div.
Meetings of the APA, 2000.
-"Can Art Be Immoral? The Case of Oscar Wilde," Friends of the Library, University of
Wisconsin, 2000.
-"Narrative," Conference on Aesthetics, Beloit College, Wisconsin, 2000.
-"Art and the Domain of the Aesthetic," Philosophy Dept., Northern Illinois University,
1999.
-"Four Concepts of Aesthetic Experience," Philosophy Department, Mt. Holyoke
College, 1999.
-"Cinematic Nation Building," Five College Film Consortium, Smith College, 1999.
-"Four Concepts of Aesthetic Experience." Center for Humanities. Wesleyan University,
1999.
-"Allegories of the Aesthetic," Conference on Normativity and Legitimacy: Second
Italian-American Philosophy Meetings, New York University, 1999.
-"Art and the Domain of the Aesthetic," German Society for Aesthetics, Sprangel
Museum, Hanover, Germany, 1999.
-"Interpreting the Moving Image: Author Meets Critics Session," Society for the Study of
the Contemporary Visual Arts, Central Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, 1999.
-"Defending the Philosophy of Mass Art," Cinema Studies, New York University, New
York, 1999.
-"Currie's Philosophy of Documentary," Cinema Studies, New York University, New
York, 1999.
-"Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers," Rainer Retrospective, Humanities Center, New
York University, New York, 1999.
-"Yvonne Rainer: An Overview," Rainer Retrospective, Humanities Center, New York
University, New York, 1999.
-"Horror and Humor," Tudor and Stuart Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland, 1999.
-"Philosophical Reflections on NEA v. Finlay," Pacific Division Meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, 1999, Berkeley, Ca.
-"Dance, Imitation and Representation," Pacific Division Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Ca., 1999.
-"Horror and Humor," the Beardsley Lecture, Philosophy Department, Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pa. 1999.
-"Pictorial Representation and Mass Art," Conference on Concepts and Frameworks for
Art at the Millennium, British Counsel, New Delhi, India, 1999.
-"Dance and Representation,” Dance Department, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad,
India, 1999.
-"The Descent of Art," Cultural Studies Seminar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad,
India, 1999.
-"The Nature of Narrative," Philosophy Department, University of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad, India, 1999.
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-"Different Approaches to Art Theory," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts,
Nariman Point, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Art as Representation," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Nariman Point,
Bombay. India. 1999.
-"The Nature of Pictorial Representation," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts,
Nariman Point, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Art as Expression," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Nariman Point, Bombay,
India, 1999.
-"What is Expression?" Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Art and Form," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Can Art Be Defined?" Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Identifying Art," Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Bombay, India, 1999.
-"Race, Horror, and Popular Culture," Society for Radical Philosophy, Eastern Division
Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, 1998.
-"The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View," The Chicago Art
Institute, 1998.
-"Evaluating Film," University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1998.
- "The Philosophy of Mass Art: Author Meets Critics," American Society for
Aesthetics,1998 national meetings, Bloomington, Indiana.
-"Hypothetical versus Actual Intentionalism," The World Congress of Philosophy,
Boston, 1998.
-"The End of Art?" The World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998.
-"Humor and Horror," Philosophy Department, University of Minnesota, 1998.
-"Horror and Humor," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1998.
-"Theorizing the Moving Image: Responses to Casebier and Goldman," Society for the
Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Pacific Div. Meetings of the APA, 1998."
-"Mass Art: Responses to Wilson, Higgins and Novitz," American Philosophical Society
(Pacific Div.), 1998.
-"The Descent of Art," Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts, National Centre for the
Performing Arts, Bombay, India, 1998.
- "Aristotle and Brecht: Comments on Angela Curran, " Eastern Div. Meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 1997.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Department, Rutgers University, 1998.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Department, Wayne State University, 1998.
-“The Descent of Art,” Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, Center for the
Performing Arts, Bombay, India.
-“Aristotle and Brecht: Comments on Angela Curran,” Eastern Div. Meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 1997.
-“Mechanical Reproduction and Cinematic Humanism: A Response to Margolis,” Eastern
Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Group Meetings, Philadelphia,
1997.
-"Horror and Humor," plenary address, Korean Aesthetics Society, Seoul National
University, 1997.
-“Fiction, Nonfiction and Films of Presumptive Assertion," Aesthetics Department, Seoul
National University, 1997.
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-"On the Narrative Connection," Aesthetics Department, Youngnam University, Taegu,
Korea, 1997.
-"Introducing Film Evaluation," Roy Wood Sellars Lecture, Bucknell University, 1997.
-"Film, Emotion and Genre," Faculty Seminar, Bucknell Universi ty, 1997.
-"Aesthetic Value: Comments on Stecker," American Society for Aesthetics Annual
Meetings, Santa Fe, 1997.
-"The Moving Image: Comments on Wartenberg," American Society for Aesthetics
Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, 1997.
-"Horror and Humor," Humanities Lecture, Princeton University, 1997.
-"Judson Dance Theater and the Philosophy of Dance History," at the Talking Dancing
Festival, Stockholm, Sweden 1997.
-"Judson Church, Grand Union and Postmodernism," panel discussion, Talking Dancing
Festival, Sweden, 1997.
-"Trio A, Rainer and Feminism," panel discussion, Talking Dancing Festival, Sweden,
1997.
-"The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View," at the
Scandinavian Society for Aesthetics, Oslo, 1997.
-"Periodizing Postmodernism," Public Lecture, University of Mainz, Germany, 1997.
-"Danto's New Definition of Art," at Zentrum fur Interdisziplinare Forschung -Universitat Bielefeld, Germany, 1997.
-"On Currie's Image and Mind," Author Meets Critics Session, Pacific Div. Meeting of
the American Philosophical Association, 1997.
-"The Nature of Suspense," Film Department, Goldsmith's College, London, 1997.
-"On the Narrative Connection," Humanities Dept., University of Sussex, Britain, 1997.
-"Art, Narrative and Emotion," Philosophy Department, The Open University, Britain,
1997.
-"Narrative," Philosophy Department, University of Leeds, Britain, 1997.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Dept., University of Hull, Britain, 1997.
-"Art, Narrative and Emotion," Communication Arts Dept., University of WisconsinMadison, 1996.
-"Television Aesthetics," Hungarian Society for Aesthetics, Budapest, 1996.
-"Documentary Film, Objectivity and History," Honolulu Academy of the Arts, 1996.
-"Fiction, Nonfiction and the Film of Presumptive Assertion," Conference on Cinema of
Ideas, Hawaii Pacific University—Loa Campus, 1996.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Dept., Mt. Holyoke College, Mass., 1996.
-"Moderate Moralism," Philosophy Dept., Northwestern University, 1996.
-"Psychoanalysis versus Cognitivism: Methodological Considerations," Conference on
Cinema Studies in the Age of Global Media," University of Chicago, 1996.
-"Moderate Moralism," Philosophy Department, University of Manitoba, 1996.
-"Fiction, Nonfiction and the Film of Presumptive Assertion," Communication Arts
Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996.
-"Dancing with the Camera," Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostella,
Spain, 1995.
-"Art, Narrative and Emotion," Department of Theater and Art, University of
Copenhagen, 1995.
-"Art, Narrative and Emotion," Humanities Lecture, University of Oslo, 1995.
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-"A Theory of Suspense," Department of Film, University of Stockholm, 1995.
-"Suspense," Department of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala, 1995.
-"Forget the Medium!" for the Media Program, MIT, 1995
-"Mass Art,” for the Department of Aesthetics, Institute for Research in the Arts,
Moscow, 1995.
-"The Paradox of Suspense," Conference on Narrative and the Emotions, University of
Utrecht, 1995.
-"Horror and Humor," University of Utrecht, 1995.
-"Horror and Humor," University of Amersterdam, 1995.
-"Horror and Humor," School for Music, Theater and Journalism Communication,
Hanover, 1995.
-“'Horror and Humor," Philosophy Dept., University of Lund. 1995.
-"Art, Narrative and Emotion," Interart Conference, University of Lund, 1995.
-"The Paradox of Suspense," Philosophy Department, Ohio State University -Columbus, 1995.
-"Words and Images," Conference on Visual Comedy, Brooklyn Collage, 1995.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Graduate Film Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 1995.
-"The Paradox of Suspense," Undergraduate Philosophy Club, U. Wisc., 1995.
-"The Moral of the Story" for the Philosophy Dept. of the University of Northern
Illinois, 1995.
-"The Ontology of Mass Art," Eastern Div. Group Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, 1994.
-"Morals and Stories," Philosophy Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994.
-"Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding," Philosophy Department, Columbia
University, 1994.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Philosophy Dept., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1994.
-"On Rightness and Reasons by Michael Krausz, and Truth. Fiction and Literature by
Lamarque and Olsen," an Authors meet Critics Panel at the annual meetings of the
American Society for Aesthetics, Charleston, S.C., 1994.
-"The Concept of Postmodernism from a Philosophical Point of View" for the
Communications Dept. of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994.
-"Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding," Philosophy Dept., Victoria University, New
Zealand, 1994.
-"Art and Ethics: Morals and Stories," Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury,
New Zealand, 1994.
-"Horror and Laughter," University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1994.
-"The Paradox of Suspense," English Dept., University of Auckland, NZ, 1994.
-"Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding," Philosophy Dept., University of Auckland,
NZ, 1994.
-"Visual Metaphor," Aesthetics Section, U. of Auckland, NZ, 1994.
-"Paradox of Junk Fiction," Aesthetics Section, U. of Auckland, NZ, 1994.
-"Ontology of Film," Aesthetics Section, U. of Auckland, NZ, 1994.
-"Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding," Philosophy Dept., University of Maryland,
1994.
-“The Paradox of Suspense,” Central Div. meetings of the American Philosophical
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Association, Kansas City, 1994.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Dept., University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1994.
-“The Paradox of Suspense," Philosophy Dept., University of Minnesota-Minneapolis,
1994.
-“Robert Morris and the Mind/Body Problem," Anthology Film Archives, New York
City, 1994.
-"A Theory of Mass Art," Cinema Studies Department, New York University, 1994.
-“Philosophy's Resistance to Mass Art," Humanities Institute, University of Wisconsin
at Madison, 1994.
-"Horror and Humor," Philosophy Department, Central Michigan University, 1994.
-"Horror and Laughter," Philosophy Dept., Bryn Mawr, 1994.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Undergraduate Philosophy Society, University of Wisconsin
at Madison, 1993.
-"Identifying Art," Humanities and Science Seminar, University of Oslo, Norway, 1993.
-"Horror and Humor," Media Dept., University of Oslo, Norway, 1993.
-"The Ontology of Mass Art," Danish Society for Media Research (SMID), Ebeltoft,
Denmark, 1993.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Dept. of Media Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1993.
-"The Paradox of Junk Fiction," American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Barbara, Ca.
1993.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois, Chicago, 1993.
-“Pantomime as Representation,” at the Movement Theater International Festival,
Philadelphia, 1993.
-"Postmodern Mime," Movement Theater International Festival, Philadelphia, 1993.
-"Mime and Film," Movement Theater International Festival, Philadelphia, 1993.
-"Historical Narratives and the Philosophy of Art," Philosophy Dept., University of
Missouri at St. Louis, 1993.
-"Laughing and Screaming” at the Humanities Center, U. of Missouri at St.Louis, 1993.
-“Danto, Style and Intention," Pacific Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, SF, 1993.
-"Moral Realism in the Age of Postmodernism," Conference on Postmodern Ethics and
Aesthetics, Wurzburg, Germany, 1993.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Philosophy Club, McMasters University, Hamilton, Canada,
1993.
-"Ideological Criticism," Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans, 1993.
-"Laughing and Screaming," for the Communication Arts Department of the University
of Wisconsin at Madison, 1992.
-"Horror and Humor," for the Eastern Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, Washington, D.C. 1992.
-"The Place of Intention in Art Criticism," Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, 1992.
-"Narration and the Identification of Art," Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, 1992.
-"Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Multiculturalism," at the Midwest meetings of
the College Art Association, U. of Wisc., 1991.
-"Godzilla II: A Response to Robert Solomon," at the annual meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Portland, Oregon, Fall, 1991.
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-"The Definition of Mass Art," for the Communications Dept. U. of Wisc. at Madison,
1991.
-"Cracks in the Acoustic Mirror," Athens Film Conference, University of Ohio, 1991.
-"Forgery," at the Elvehjem Museum, U. of Wisconsin, Fall, 1991.
-"Mass Art," at the Society for the Philosophical Study of Contemporary Visual Arts,
Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association" winter 1991.
-“Empiricist Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art,” at the NEH Institute: Philosophy
and the Histories of the Arts, San Francisco State University, summer 1991.
-"Narration and the Identification of Art," at the NEH Institute: Philosophy and the
Histories of the Arts, San Francisco State University, summer 1991.
-panel discussant on the topic of pornography, censorship, and Etta Jenks, Theater
Department, U. of Wisconsin at Madison, 1992.
- "Peter Brooks Philosophy of Theater,” The Wexner Center, Ohio State University,
winter, 1992.
-"Art, Intention and Conversation,” at the Philosophy Department, University of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee, spring 1992.
-"Realist Horror: A Response to Cynthia Freeland,” American Philosophical Association,
1992.
"Identifying Art," Philosophy Department, Trinity College, San Antonio, Texas, spring
1992.
-"Laughing and Screaming," Philosophy Department, Trinity College, spring 1992.
-"The Philosophy of Horror," Philosophy Dept., SUNY Brockport, 1991.
-"Responses to Feagin and Neill," Pacific Division Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, 1991.
-"Response to Ira Newman on Hume," Western Division Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, 1991.
-"Kant's Third Critique," Philosophy Dept., Kansas State University, 1991.
-"Art and Intention," Philosophy Dept., Kansas State University, 1991.
-"Philosophy of Humor," Philosophy Dept., Kansas State University, 1991.
-"The Structure of Silent Comedy," Communication Dept., University of Denmark, 1991.
-"Laughter," Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, 1991.
-"Film and Ideology," Communications Department, University of Denmark, 1991.
-"Point of View Editing," Communications Dept., University of Denmark, 1991.
-"Intention and Conversation," Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, 1990.
-"Philosophy's Resistance to Mass Art," University of Wurzburg, Germany, 1991.
-"Jokes," Philosophy Dept., U. of Wisconsin at Madison, 1990.
-"A Response to Mary Devereaux," Annual meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics, Austin, Texas, 1990.
-"Kant, Schiller and Guyer: A Comment," at Kant Symposium for the Philosophy Dept.
of the University of Rochester, 1990.
-"Dance and Theater: A Philosophical Narrative," at the conference Il Corpore Parlante
Rome, 1990.
-"Contemporary American Theater Dance." with Sally Banes, at Il Corpore Parlante,
Rome 1990.
-"Censorship and Government Arts' Funding," panel discussant, Risley Hall, Cornell
University, 1990.
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-“Feminism and Film Theory,” Pacific Div. Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, LA, 1990.
-"Film and Ideology: A Philosophical Analysis," at the Central Division Meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, 1990.
-"Jokes," American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meetings, NYC, 1989.
-“Comments on Peter Lamarque's 'What Can A Work of Fiction Be About?" (read in my
absence by Nick Sturgeon), Cornell Philosophy Club, 1989.
-"Paradoxes of the Heart," Philosophy Dept., Johns Hopkins University, 1989.
-"Toward a Theory of the Sight Gag," Columbia Film Seminar, Museum of Modern Art,
NYC, 1989.
-"Sight Gags," Innis Lecture, University of Toronto, 1989.
-"Comments on Alexander Nehemas's and Daniel Herwitz's papers on Richard
Wollheim's Painting as an Art," Eastern Division Meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics, Philadelphia, 1989.
-"False Analogies: the Voice in Feminist Theory," International Experimental Film
Festival, Toronto, 1989.
-"Toward a Theory of Point of View Editing," Society for Cinema Studies, Iowa City,
1989.
-"Beauty and the Genealogy of Art Theory," Pacific Division Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, 1989.
-"Art Theory and Aesthetic Theory," Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, 1989.
-"The Nature of the Sight Gag," Philosophy Dept. Vanderbilt University, 1989.
-Problems in Contemporary Philosophy of Art,” at the Mellon Seminar on Art and
Architecture, Princeton University, 1989.
-"Thoughts on Dreyer's Vampyr,"at a conferenceon the work of Carl Th. Dreyer
sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and New York University,1989.
-"The Philosophy of Horror," Cinema Studies Dept., New York University, 1989.
-"Toward a Theory of Silent Comedy," at a conference on film and philosophy, Hollins
College, 1989.
-"Art and Emotion: The Case of Horror," at a conference on art and cognition,
University of Iowa, 1988.
-"The End of Art?” a comment on Arthur Danto 's keynote address at the Trilling
Seminar, Columbia University, 1988.
-"High Ad and Low Art," annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics,
Vancouver, 1988.
-"Interpreting Citizen Kane," at a conference on Orson Welles at New York University,
1988.
-"Philosophy and Cultural Studies," CASVA, The National Gallery, Washington D.C.,
1988.
-Comment on a paper on literature and the emotions by Jennefer Robinson at the Pacific
Division Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, 1988.
-"John Cage and Philosophy," at a conference on John Cage's music, Wesleyan
University, 1988.
-Comment on a paper on literature and interpretation by Laurent Stern at the Pacific
Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Portland, Oregon,
1988.
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-Comment on a paper on Cavell and Film by Mary Devereaux at the Pacific Division
Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Portland, Oregon, 1988.
-"The Nature of Movie Music," Music Dept. Symposium, Wesleyan University, 1988.
-"The Philosophy of Horror, Philosophy Dept., Cornell University, 1988.
-Comment on a paper on the psychology of pictorial imagination by John Broughton at
the Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1987.
-Comment on a paper on the medieval exemplum by Lawrence Scanlon at the Center for
Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1987.
-"Mind/Film Analogies," Film Department, York University, 1987.
-"Art, Practice and Narrative." Philosophy Department, York University, 1987.
-"Danto, Art and History," national meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,"
Kansas City, 1987.
-"Merce Cunningham and the Moving Image," panel discussant at the symposium "About
Merce Cunningham," Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, 1987.
-"Post-Cunningham/Post-Modern," panel discussant at the symposium "About Merce
Cunningham." Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
1987.
-"Art, Practice and Narrative," Philosophy Dept., Swarthmore College, 1987.
-"Cunningham and Skepticism," panel discussant at Merce Cunningham and the New
Dance SUNY Dance Festival, NYU, 1987.
-panel discussant on male partnering at Dance Critic's Association, national meeting
NYC, 1987.
-Commentator on papers on primitive art at the Eastern Div. Meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1987.
-"Interpretation and the Lure of Lacan," Modern Language Association, New York, 1986.
-"Hume's Moral Theory Reconsidered," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University,
1986..
-"The State of Contemporary Theater Theory," Performing Arts Journal Conference, New
York University, 1986.
-"The Anatomy of Horror," Philosophy Series, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, 1986.
-"Cine-Dance," Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Mass., 1986.
-"The Nature of Horror,” for the conference "Writing the Future," International
Philosophy and Literature Association, University of Warwick, Great Britain, 1986.
-"Acts of Aspection," at the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics, Asilomar, Ca., 1986.
-"Aesthetically Relevant Properties: A comment on Rogerson," (read by Dale Jamieson
in my absence) at the Pacific Div. meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, LA, CA, 1986.
-"Theoretical Problems in the Contemporary Criticism of the Fine Arts," Art and
Architecture Dept. Symposium, Cornell University, 1986.
-"Horrors," for the symposium entitled "Philosophy and Film" at the Museum of the
Moving Image," Astoria, Queens, New York, 1986.
-"The Avant-garde and Epistemology," Conference on the Avant-garde, Hofstra
University, Hempstead, New York, 1985.
-"Marxist-Psychoanalytic Literary Theory," for the Philosophy and Literature Section of
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the Mid-Hudson MLA, Marist College, 1985.
-"Postmodernism," Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Mass. 1985.
-"Federal Arts Funding," national meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,
Louisville, Kentucky, 1985.
-panel discussant for a program on "What is Art?" for the TV station of the State
University of New York at Brockport, 1985.
-commentator on Jonathan Ree's "Proletarian Philosophy" at the Center for Humanities,
Wesleyan University, 1985.
-"What are the Theoretical Justifications for Government Arts' Funding?" University of
Colorado at Boulder. 1985.
-"Contemporary French Aesthetics," University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985.
-"The Power of Movies." Conference on Spectatorship, Yale University,1985.
-"Art and Interaction," Pacific Div. Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,
Asilomar, Ca. 1985.
-"The Place of Meta-History in Frampton's Film Theory," Museum of Modern Art, New
York City, 1985.
-"Conspiracy Theories of Representation," national meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics, University of Southern Ca., 1984.
-"Notes on the Painted Word," Conference on Word and Image, Haggerty Art Museum,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1984.
-"Violent Pornography and Censorship," NEH summer seminar in social philosophy,
University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984.
-"Formalism and Critical Evaluation," International Congress of Aesthetics, Montreal,
1984.
-Commentator on a paper on soap operas by Lorraine Broderick at the Center for the
Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1984.
-"Suspense," Middlebury College, Vermont, 1984.
-"Philosophical Problems of Documentary Film," Wesleyan University, 1984.
-"Medium-Specificity and Art," Pacific Division Meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics, Asilomar, Ca. 1984.
-"Theoretical Problems of Contemporary Film Criticism," Cinema Department,
University of Southern Calif., 1984.
-"Film, Photography and Ideology," Film Theory Series, Cooper Union, New York,
1984.
-"Medium-Specificity Arguments," Communication Dept., U. of Wisc., Madison, 1984.
-"Narrative. Structure and Film Plotting," a series of four lectures at the Millennium
Film Workshop, New York City, New York, 1984.
-"Subject Positioning," Society for Cinema Studies, U. of Wisc., Madison.
-"Art and Medium," Philosophy Dept., Marquette U., Milwaukee, Wise. 1984.
-"Film, Photography and Video," a symposium on philosophy and self-consciously
invented arts, at The Kitchen, NYC, 1984.
-"Werner Herzog," New German Cinema Conference, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, 1984.
-"Hume's Standard of Taste," national meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,
Penn. State, 1983.
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-“Can Nonfiction Films Be Objective?” Philosophic Exchange Forum, SUNY Brockport,
1983.
-"Tailored for TV: Media Aesthetics and the Popular Audience," moderator/discussant,
panel discussion, The Kitchen, NYC, 1983.
-Comments on Annette Barnes' "About Interpretation," Eastern Division Meetings of the
American Society for Aesthetics, C.W. Post College, N.Y., 1983.
-"Thinking Backwards: Intention and Transgression in Contemporary Film Criticism,"
Pacific Division Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar, Ca.
1983.
-"Post-Modern Dance: A Consideration," Next Wave Panel, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Next Wave Festival, 1983.
-"Trends in the Contemporary American Film Industry," University of Rhode Island,
1982.
-"Film and Dance," moderator/speaker, opening panel of Film and Dance Series,
Danspace, at. Marks's Church, NYC, 1982.
-“David Hume's Aesthetics," Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc.,
1982.
-"Hollywood Today," Marquette, Wisc., 1982.
-"Film and Suspense," Pacific Div. meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,
1982.
-"Causation and Avant-garde Film Editing," Society for Cinema Studies, New York,
1981.
-"Post-modernism and Dance," The Post-Modernist Controversy series, University of
Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1981.
-Comments on L. Hanlon's "Space-Time Variations in Avant-garde Film," American
Society for Aesthetics, national meetings, Tampa, Florida, 1981.
-"Dance and the other Arts," Dance Critics Association Panel Discussion, New Dance
USA Festival, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1981.
-"Post-Modernism and Film," The Post-Modernist Controversy series, University of
Illinois, Chicago Circle,1981.
-"Martial Arts Films: The Ethics of Kung-Fu," Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Florida, 1981.
-"Defining Post-Modern Dance," Dance Critics Association Panel Discussion, New
Dance USA Festival, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1981.
-"Thirties' Musicals and the Depression," Dance Dept., Florida State University,
Tallahassee. Fl 1981.
-"Interpreting Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera," Aesthetics Club, Temple
University, 1980.
-"Introducing Lang's Dr. Mabuse," large public lecture, Filmex (an international film
festival), LA, CA, 1980.
-"Dr. Mabuse and Theology Psychologized," a small public lecture, Filmex, LA, CA,
1980.
-"Main Issues in Contemporary Dance Theory," Philosophy Dept., SUNY Brockport,
1980.
-"Contemporary Trends in Independent Film and Video," discussant, Women's Inter-art
Center, NYC, 1979.
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-"Dziga Vertov," for the New American Movement, Center for Marxist Education, NYC,
1979.
-"Philosophy and Dance," American Dance Festival, Dance Town Hall Series, Duke
University, 1979.
-"Do Avant-garde Films Make Theory?" Society for Cinema Studies, San Francisco State
University, 1979.
- "Response to Paul Ziff," American Dance Festival, Duke, 1979.
-"Horror Film Cycles," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1979.
-Comments on A. Sesonske's "Present Tense in Film," and W. Earle's "Surrealism and
Films," at the national meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, Tucson,
Arizona, 1979.
-"On the Nature of German Expressionist Film," Focus on Expressionism Series, New
York University, 1978.
-"Visible Intelligibility: Keaton's Long Shot," Carpenter Center, Harvard University,
1977 .
-Comments on M. Wicc1air on Munsterberg and W. Hudlin on Film and Language at the
Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago,
1977 .
-"On Film Editing," American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, Seattle, 1977.
-"Mind and Metaphor in Heaven and Earth Magic," Whitney Museum of Art, NYC,
1976.
-"Editing and Sound/Image Structure in Orson Welles' The Trial," College Art
Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1976.
-"Categories of Reflexivity in Film," Film Theory Conference, U. of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee, 1975.
-"Composition in Keaton Steamboat Bill Junior” at the Museum of Contemporary Art ,
Chicago, 1975.
-“Editing in Fritz Lang’s M,” for the Cine-Club, Northwestern University, 1975.
-"Silent Comedy," two lectures at Bard College, New York, 1974.
-"Keaton's Editing," Media Study, Buffalo, 1973.
-"Metaphor in Film,” Oberlin in Film Theory Conference, 1972.
"Art of Film," a series of three lectures, Humanities Department, Hofstra University,
1971.
Professional Activities:
- Guest Editor, The Poetics, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Narrative, a special issue of
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2009).
- Organizer, Imagination Conference, The Center for Humanities at Temple, 2008.
-Acting Chairperson, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 2006-2007.
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-Guest Editor of a special issue on aesthetics for Revue Internationale de Philosophie,
(2008);
-Program advisor in aesthetics to the Eastern Div. of the American Philosophical
Association.
-Organizer of the Conference "Art, Politics, and Philosophy," at the Institute for
Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin Madison, 2002.
-Trustee 1999-2001 of The American Philosophical Association.
-President of the American Society for Aesthetics 1999-2000.
-Member of the Board of the American Philosophical Association, 1999-2001.
-Chairman of the Lecture and Publications Committee of the American Philosophical
Association, 1999-2001.
-Vice President of the American Society for Aesthetics 1997-98.
-Member of the Lecture and Publications Committee, American Philosophical
Association 1997-2001.
-Member of the editorial advisory boards of Metaphilosophy, Journal for Aesthetics
Art Criticism, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
-Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, July, 1994.
-Program Chairman for the 1992 Anniversary Meetings of the American Society for
Aesthetics
-Faculty Advisory Board, Cornell University Press. 1990-1991.
-Reader for Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; Princeton University
Press; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Columbia University Press; Haven Press;
Bucknell University Press; The University of Chicago Press; Harvard University Press,
Cornell University Press; Temple University Press; . Southern Illinois University Press,
Press ; Blackwell Publishers, Edward Arnold Publishers, Routledge
-Article referee for Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Dance Research Journal,
Leonardo, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Historv of Philosophy, History and Theory,
Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Forum.
-1977-1990: co-editor of Millennium Film Journal.
-Member of the Program Committee for the American Society for Aesthetics's annual
meetings in 1978, 1980, 1986 and 1990. Member of the Program Committee for the
American Society for Aesthetics, eastern division meetings for 1990. Program
organizer for the 1992 meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics.
-Former member of the editorial board of History and Theory.
-Trustee, 1985-88, American Society for Aesthetics.
-Chair of the section of Kant's Aesthetics at the annual meetings of the American
Society for Aesthetics, 1985, Louisville; chair of the section on film aesthetics,
annual American Society for Aesthetics meetings, Banff, Canada, 1982.
-Former member of the journals committee of the American Society for Aesthetics.
-1988-present, member of the editorial hoard of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism
-Program organizer, Pacific Division meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics,
1987.
-President, Pacific Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, 1988.
-Panel organizer and chair, Philosophy and Literature section, Mid-Hudson MLA, 1986.
-Guest Editor, special issue on Philosophy and Film, for CUNY's Persistence of Vision
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(issue no. 5).
-From 1979 through 1980, I was on the roster of speakers for the film program of the
Gallery Association of New York. We. were sent to small communities throughout New
York State to screen programs of avant-garde films and to lecture on them in local
public libraries.
-During 1979-1980, I was a visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department of Temple
University, where I studied aesthetics (with Monroe Beardsley, Joseph Margolis and
John Fisher), philosophy of history (with Prof. Beardsley) and political philosophy
(with J.L. Mackie). I also had weekly meetings with Monroe Beardsley to discuss
my work in film theory and philosophical aesthetics.
Academic Honors and Awards:
- Fellow, Humanities Center, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2010-2011.
- Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2008-present
-Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities, Temple U., 2004-2008.
-Guggenheim Fellowship, 2003.
-Hilldale Professorship, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1998-2003.
-Senior Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of
Wisconsin, 1996-2002.
-Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of the Philosophy of Art at the University of Wisconsin
at Madison.
-Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin at
Madison, 1994.
-Associate Director, NEH Institute on Aesthetics and Art History, San Francisco,
summer 1991.
-Faculty Fellow, Society for Humanities, Cornell University, spring 1991.
-Faculty Fellow to the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan, Fall, 1986.
-Participant in Joel Feinberg's NEH summer seminar in social philosophy, University of
Arizona, 1984.
-Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1974-76 and 1981-82.
-Teaching Assistant, New York University, 1972.
-Danforth Fellowship, 1969-1975.
-BA '69 magna cum laude.
-Sigma Kappa Alpha national honor society (undergraduate).
-Phi Alpha Theta national honor society (undergraduate).
-Pi Gamma Mu National honor society (undergraduate).
- Filderman Award in philosophy, Hofstra University, 1967-69.
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