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John Gibson
Research Areas: Philosophy of  Literature, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language           
PhD., 2001, University of Toronto
Associate Professor 
Department of Philosophy
313D Humanities Building
University of Louisville,Louisville, KY 40292
(502)852-0452
john.gibson@louisville.edu

Books


Edited Books

  • The Philosophy of Poetry (contract w/ OUP)

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

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

       −文人维特根斯坦 (Shanghai Sanhui Press, 2009). Chinese (Mandarin) translation of The Literary Wittgenstein          

 

Essays

  • ‘Interpretation, Sincerity, and Theory,’ Contemporary Aesthetics (Fall 2010). 

  • ‘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).

  • 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).

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


In Progress

  • 'The Literary Conception of Selfhood' (2012 MLA)

  • 'Are Metaphors Mimetic?'

  • Poetry, Metaphor, and Nonsense


 


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