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JOHN GIBSON, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto, 2001 
John Gibson specializes in the Philosophy of Art. His current research focuses on various intersections of aesthetics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of the self. He is working on a book he thinks he will call Poetry, Metaphor, and Nonsense: An Essay on Meaning. 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Book

Edited Books

       −Wittgenstein und die Literatur (Suhrkamp, 2006). *German translation of The Literary Wittgenstein.

Essays

  • Literature and Knowledge,’ in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Oxford UP, 2009).

  •  ‘Fiction and Emotion,’ in Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences (Oxford UP, 2009). *Short survey piece.

  • Cognitivism and the Arts,’ Philosophy Compass (Summer 2008).

  • ‘Kritischer Pluralismus und Erkenntniszuwachs’, in Kunst Denken (Mentis, 2007).

  • ‘The Prospects of Literary Cognitivism,’ in A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (Routledge, 2007).

  •  ‘Interpreting Words, Interpreting Worlds,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Fall 2006).

  • ‘Reading for Life,’ in The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004).

  • Between Truth and Triviality,’ British Journal of Aesthetics (Summer 2003).

  • ‘Reality and the Language of Fiction,’ in Writing the Austrian Traditions: Themes in Philosophy & Literature (Ontos, 2003).

  • ‘The Threat of Panfictionalism,’ Symposium (Spring 2002).


asedOffice: Humanities 313D

Office Tel: (502) 852-0452

john.gibson@louisville.edu

*On leave 2009/2010 academic year

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