Associate Professor of Philosophy
John Gibson
Books
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Fiction and the Weave of Life (Oxford, 2007)
Philosophy of Literature: A Contemporary Introduction (contract w/ Routledge)
Edited Books
The Philosophy of Poetry (contract w/ OUP)
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature (under contract). Co-editor, with Noël Carroll.
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Narrative, Emotion & Insight (PSUP, in press). Co-editor, with Noël Carroll.
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A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (Routledge, 2007). Co-editor, with Wolfgang Huemer and Luca Pocci.
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The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004). Co-editor, with Wolfgang Huemer. (Link to review in The Times Literary Supplement)
−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
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'Thick Narratives,’ in Narrative,Emotion & Insight (PSUP, forthcoming). (pdf of draft)
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'Skepticism and the Idea of an Other: Reflections on Cavell and Postcolonialism', with Simona Bertacco. Forthcoming in Stanley Cavell & Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism (Continuum)
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‘Selves on Selves,’ forthcoming in Journal of Aesthetic Education. *Symposium contribution.
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‘Interpretation, Sincerity, and Theory,’ Contemporary Aesthetics (Fall 2010). *Symposium contribution.
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‘Literature and Knowledge,’ in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Oxford UP, 2009).
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‘Fiction and Emotion,’ in Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences (Oxford UP, 2009). *Short survey piece.
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‘Cognitivism and the Arts,’ Philosophy Compass (Summer 2008).
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‘Kritischer Pluralismus und Erkenntniszuwachs’, in Kunst Denken (Mentis, 2007).
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‘Interpreting Words, Interpreting Worlds,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Fall 2006).
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‘Reading for Life,’ in The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004).
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‘Between Truth and Triviality,’ British Journal of Aesthetics (Summer 2003).
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‘The Threat of Panfictionalism,’ Symposium (Spring 2002).
In Progress
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'Narrative Sense & Narrative Selves'
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'The Question of Poetic Meaning'
Office: Humanities 313D
Office Tel: (502) 852-0452
john.gibson@louisville.edu

