Associate Professor of Philosophy

PhD University of Toronto, 2001

BA Indiana University, 1993

Areas of Research: Philosophy of Literature. Aesthetics. Philosophy of Language.  

BOOKS:

authored

• Fiction and the Weave of Life.  Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2007 (2012, paperback edition). Review in Times Higher Education

edited

• Narrative, Emotion, and Insight. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Coeditor, with Noël Carroll. Review in NDPR

• A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2007. Coeditor, with Luca Pocci and Wolfgang Huemer. Review in NDPR

• The Literary Wittgenstein. London: Routledge, 2004. Coeditor, with Wolfgang Huemer.  Review in Times Literary Supplement 

                 translated as:  Wittgenstein und die Literatur. Frankfort: Suhrkamp,  2006; 文人维特根斯坦.  Shanghai: Sanhui Press, 2009

 ESSAYS (select):

*Copies of essays are available at PhilPapers

• “The Question of Poetic Meaning.” Nonsite 4 (2012).  

                   Charles Altieri's response to a few of the papers in this issue. 

•  “Skepticism and the Idea of an Other.” In Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism. New York: Continuum, 2011.  W/ Simona Bertacco.

• “Thick Narratives.” In Narrative, Emotion & Insight. 

• “Interpretation, Sincerity, and Theory.” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 8, 2010. 

• “Fiction and Emotion.” In Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, pp. 184-185. Edited by David Sanders and Klaus R. Scherer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.  *Encyclopedia entry 

• “Literature and Knowledge.” In  Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 467-85.

• “Cognitivism and the Arts.” Philosophy Compass 3.4 (2008): 573-89.

• “Kritischer Pluralismus und Erkenntniszuwachs.”  In Kunst Denken, pp. 105-116. Paderborn: Mentis, 2007.

• “The Prospects of Literary Cognitivism.” in  A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge. 

• “Interpreting Words, Interpreting Worlds.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64.4 (2006): 439-50.

• “Reading for Life.” In The Literary Wittgenstein. 

• “Between Truth and Triviality.” The British Journal of Aesthetics 43.3 (2003): 224-37.

IN PROGRESS

• Philosophy of Literature. Under contract with Routledge. Beginning stages of writing.

• The Philosophy of Poetry.  Editor. Under contract with Oxford University Press.  

• The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature. Co-editor, with Noël Carroll (CUNY).  Under contract with Routledge.

• “Are Metaphors Mimetic?”

• “Kant, Milton and the Literary Imagination”
• "Persons, Narratives, and the Literary Conception of Selfhood"

• “What Makes a Poem Philosophical?” American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, March 29th-April 1st 2012. 

• “Milton, Kant & The Literary Imagination,” presented at “Philosophical Perspectives on Paradise Lost (Book IX): An International Workshop in Honor of Professor Sanford Budick,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 14th-15th, 2011.

• “Problems of Meaning in Poetry and Metaphor,” presented at The University of Tampere, Finland, November 10th, 2011. 

• “The Problem of Poetic Meaning,” presented at No Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature Today, Boston University, April 2nd, 2011.

•  “Skepticism and the Idea of an Other,” presented at a symposium in honor of Stanley Cavell, Harvard Humanities Center, October 14th -16th, 2010.

• “The Question of Poetic Meaning,” presented at Wittgenstein and Aesthetics: 3rd British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference, University of Southampton (UK), June 28th, 2010. 

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW (on occasion): 

     Oxford University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge, Cornell University Press, Columbia University Press, Norton; Springer, McGraw Hill, The      
     Philosophical Quarterly, Philosopher’s Imprint, Journal of Value Inquiry, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, The     
    European Legacy, Modern Drama, Journal of Aesthetic Education,  Altre Modernità, Partial Answers, British Journal of Aesthetics.