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Associate Professor of Philosophy

John Gibson

 Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2001
John Gibson's recent research focuses on issues at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language. He is working on a book he thinks he will call Poetry, Metaphor, and Nonsense: An Essay on Meaning

Books

     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. 

       −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

  • 'Thick Narratives,’ in Narrative,Emotion & Insight (PSUP, forthcoming). (pdf of draft)

  • '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)

  • ‘Selves on Selves,’ forthcoming in Journal of Aesthetic Education. *Symposium contribution.

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

  •  ‘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 

  • 'Narrative Sense & Narrative Selves'

  • 'The Question of Poetic Meaning'



asedOffice: Humanities 313D

Office Tel: (502) 852-0452

john.gibson@louisville.edu


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