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  1. Reading fiction and conceptual knowledge: Philosophical thought in literary context.Eileen John - 1998 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (4):331-348.
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    Learning from Aesthetic Disagreement and Flawed Artworks.Eileen John - 2020 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (3):279-288.
    ABSTRACT Disagreements about art are considered here for their potential to pose questions about reality beyond the artwork. The project of assessing artistic value is useful for bringing complex questions to light. The ambitiousness of the cognitive stock, in Richard Wollheim's term, that can be relevant to understanding an artwork may mean that confident evaluation will elude us. Thinking about artistic value judgment in this way shifts its centrality as the point of artistic interpretation and evaluation; the goal of judging (...)
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    Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry, and Music.Eileen John - 1999 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (1):76-78.
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  4. Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism.Eileen John - 2005 - In Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 332--41.
     
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    Beauty, Interest, and Autonomy.Eileen John - 2012 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2):193-202.
  6. Empathy in Literature.Eileen John - 2017 - In Heidi Lene Maibom (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy. Routledge. pp. 306-16.
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    Meals, Art and Meaning.Eileen John - 2021 - Critica 53 (157):45-70.
    This paper takes meals, rather than food itself, as its focus. Meals incorporate the project of nutrition into human life, but it is a contingent matter that we nourish ourselves in this way. This paper defends the importance of meals as meaning-makers and contrasts them with art in that regard. Meals and art represent interestingly different extremes with respect to how needs for meaning are met. Artworks ask for coordination of experience, understanding and appreciation: the meaning of art is to (...)
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  8. Art and knowledge.Eileen John - 2000 - In Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Poetry and Directions for Thought.Eileen John - 2013 - Philosophy and Literature 37 (2):451-471.
    Do poems provide “scripts” for reader’s thoughts? Kendall Walton’s account of poets as thoughtwriters, in which poems can serve to express readers’ thoughts without positing an expressive thinker in the poem, is considered from various angles. While it seems a minimal expressive thinker needs to be posited, this leaves open other questions about poems as the stuff of thought. Can poems be fully thought, and do readers take ownership of the thinking that poetry prompts? Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” is (...)
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    (1 other version)Meals, Art, and Artistic Value.Eileen John - 2014 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (2):254-268.
    The notion of a meal is explored in relation to questions of art status and artistic value. Meals are argued not to be works of art, but to have the capacity for artistic value. These claims are used to respond to Dominic Lopes’s arguments in Beyond Art that demote artistic value in favour of the values that emerge from specific kinds of art. A conception of artistic value that involves ‘taking reflective charge’ of the possibilities for goodness available in an (...)
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  11. Love and the need for comprehension.Eileen John - 2013 - Philosophical Explorations 16 (3):285-297.
    The question of how well we need to be known, to be loved, is considered. A ‘second-person’ model is argued for, on which love requires that the beloved’s demands to be known be respected. This puts pressure on the idea that lovers need to make a beloved’s interests their own, taking that to require comprehension of the beloved’s interests: a lover would have to appreciate the normative intelligibility and motivating force of an interest. The possibility of love with failure of (...)
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    Literature and the idea of morality.Eileen John - 2007 - In Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 285–299.
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    (1 other version)‘Philosophy and the Novel’, by Goldman, Alan H.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. xii + 209, £30.00 (hardback).Eileen John - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3):590-593.
    (2014). ‘Philosophy and the Novel’, by Goldman, Alan H. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 590-593. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2014.885069.
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  14. Literary Fiction and the Philosophical Value of Detail.Eileen John - 2003 - In Matthew Kieran & Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts. New York: Routledge. pp. 142--159.
     
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    Can Aesthetics Be Global?Eileen John - 2023 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 93:209-230.
    Philosophical aesthetics is to some extent beholden to what I will call personal aesthetics. By personal aesthetics, I mean the phenomena of individual aesthetic sensitivity: how each of us discerns and responds to elements of experience. I take that sensitivity to be finely woven into feeling to some degree at home in the world. There is something extremely local, and in a certain sense unreflective, about personal aesthetics – it is hard to notice one's own, historically specific aesthetic formation. Philosophical (...)
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  16. Coetzee and Eros: A Critique of Moral Philosophy.Eileen John - 2017 - In Patrick Hayes & Jan Wilm (eds.), Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 107-22.
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    Caring about characters.Eileen John - 2016 - In Garry Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 31-46.
    This chapter considers how and why real people can care about fictional characters.. Caring rests on having interests at stake, and in literary contexts those interests concern the accuracy and content of a representation; we as people, as part of our natural history, are beings for whom representation and being represented are centrally important. This chapter argues for a better integration of the “internal” and “external” perspectives on fictional characters, that is, a better integration of what are too often taken (...)
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    Philosophy of literature: contemporary and classic readings: an anthology.Eileen John & Dominic Lopes (eds.) - 2004 - Malden, MA: Blackwell.
    This authoritative volume offers a handy compilation of contributions to the field by its leading figures.
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    Is Aesthetic Consistency Worth Having?Eileen John - forthcoming - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 60 (2):115-130.
    Should we aspire to aesthetic consistency? Two kinds of aesthetic consistency are considered, following Ted Cohen’s discussion of consistency in personal aesthetics: consistency of aesthetic reasons and coherence of aesthetic personality. Neither of these kinds of consistency seems like something to aspire to, possibly because we cannot do so – if we are not typically reasoning at the level of aesthetic response that is envisaged – or because consistent, coherent responsiveness does not seem like a worthwhile aesthetic goal. A third (...)
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  20. XI—Literature and Disagreement.Eileen John - 2014 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (3pt3):239-260.
    To understand rational response to ethical disagreement, we need to consider how epistemic and ethical factors interact. The notion of an ethical peer is developed, and the roles that epistemic and ethical peers play in disagreement are compared. In the light of some literary examples, the view that conciliation in response to an ethical peer can be called for, even if that peer is an epistemic inferior, is defended.
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  21. Subtlety and moral vision in fiction.Eileen John - 1995 - Philosophy and Literature 19 (2):308-319.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Subtlety and Moral Vision in FictionEileen JohnIIn Martha Nussbaum’s work in Love’s Knowledge, the subtlety of literary fiction is given a prominent role in explaining literature’s moral influence. 1 Nussbaum argues that the subtlety displayed in certain works of literary fiction can help readers develop habits of perception such that they will perceive their actual moral world more finely and respond to it with a more nuanced range of (...)
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  22. (1 other version)Images of community in American popular culture.Eileen John & Nancy Potter - 2002 - In Philip Alperson (ed.), Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 265--288.
     
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    Philosophy of Literature, and Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, 2 Book Pack.Eileen John, Dominic McIver Lopes, Noël Carroll & Jinhee Choi (eds.) - 2008 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Pack includes 2 titles from the popular Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies Series: _ _ Philosophy of Literature_: Contemporary and Classic Readings_ _Edited by Eileen John and Dominic McIver Lopes ISBN: 9781405112086 _ Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures_: An Anthology _Edited by No ë l Carroll and Jinhee Choi ISBN: 9781405120272.
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  24. The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - an Anthology.Eileen John & Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.) - 2004 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extracts Provides a balanced and coherent overview of developments in the field during the past thirty years, including influential work on fiction, interpretation, metaphor, literary value, and the definition and ontology of literature Includes an additional historical section featuring generous selections of the writings of early pioneers such as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Hume Serves as (...)
     
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    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night.Eileen John - forthcoming - British Journal of Aesthetics:ayad002.
    If you can, take the chance to see this exhibition of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paintings. This survey of her works opened briefly at Tate Britain in 2020 and has n.
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    The experience of fiction.Eileen John - 2022 - In Patrik Engisch & Julia Langkau (eds.), The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition. Routledge.
    Appeals to imagination to distinguish fiction from nonfiction have been persuasively challenged by philosophers such as Derek Matravers and Stacie Friend. This essay aims to uphold the importance of the fiction/nonfiction distinction by other means. Instead of relying on contrasting roles for imagination and belief, can we isolate kinds of experience that are paradigmatically sustained by fiction? Can status as fiction encourage, and help to explain, certain tendencies and qualities of experience? Several common aspects of experience, of what it is (...)
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    Allegory and Ethical Education: Stories for People Who Know Too Many Stories.Eileen John - 2018 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 52 (4):642-659.
    How can stories contribute to ethical education, when they reach people who have already been shaped by many stories, including ethically problematic ones? This question is pursued here by considering Plato’s allegory of the cave, focusing on a reading of it offered by Jonathan Lear. Lear claims that the cave allegory aims to undermine its audience’s inheritance of stories. I question the possibility and desirability of that project, especially in relation to ethical education. Some works of contemporary fiction by Jenny (...)
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  28. (1 other version)Alan H. Goldman, Aesthetic Value Reviewed by.Eileen John - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (2):106-108.
     
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  29. Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word.Eileen John - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (5):355.
     
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    Emma and Defective Action.Eileen John - 2018 - In Eva M. Dadlez (ed.), Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives. Oup Usa. pp. 84-108.
    This chapter explores what Emma and Austen might have to say about human agency and autonomy. Considered and challenged are Christine Korsgaard’s use of Austen’s characters (Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith) to exemplify a species of defective autonomous action. Austen's novel persistently addresses and clarifies the nature and sources of defective action. Harriet Smith’s happy subordination to Emma’s will, as Korsgaard maintains, is obviously problematic. But it is most often Emma Woodhouse herself, and not Harriet, whose conduct Austen presents as (...)
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    Learning to be a writer from early reading.Eileen John - 2019 - British Journal of Educational Studies 67 (3):291-306.
    The role of reading in educating a future writer is discussed through study of memoirs by writers including Janet Frame, James Baldwin, and Eudora Welty. The memoirs show reading books to have been a transformative way of melding forms of experience. The following features of childhood reading are examined: (1) the role of the physical book, (2) the cognitive-aesthetic-affective impact of letters, words and ‘voices’, (3) the partially unplanned and challenging path of children’s exposure to texts, and (4) absorption of (...)
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    Stories and Thinking Anew about Race.Eileen John - 2021 - The Philosophers' Magazine 93:26-32.
  33. Tamara Horowitz and Gerald J. Massey, eds., Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy Reviewed by.Eileen John - 1992 - Philosophy in Review 12 (5):327-329.
     
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    Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction, by Gregory Currie. [REVIEW]Eileen John - 2020 - Mind 130.
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    De Gustibus: Arguing about Taste and Why We Do It By Peter Kivy. [REVIEW]Eileen John - 2019 - Analysis 79 (3):581-583.
    De Gustibus: Arguing about Taste and Why We Do It By KivyPeterOxford University Press, 2015. xii + 174 pp.
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    Review of David Davies, Aesthetics and Literature[REVIEW]Eileen John - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (9).
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