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  1. Fiction and Narrative.Derek Matravers - 2014 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
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  2. Art and emotion.Derek Matravers - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Matravers examines how emotions form the bridge between our experience of art and of life. We often find that a particular poem, painting, or piece of music carries an emotional charge; and we may experience emotions toward, or on behalf of, a particular fictional character. Matravers shows that what these experiences have in common, and what links them to the expression of emotion in non-artistic cases, is the role played by feeling. He carries out a critical survey of various accounts (...)
  3. Art and Emotion.Derek Matravers - 2000 - Mind 109 (435):627-630.
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  4. Justice and punishment: the rationale of coercion.Matt Matravers - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book aims to answer the question of why, and by what right, some people punish others. With a groundbreaking new theory, Matravers argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a larger political and moral theory. He also uses the problem of punishment to undermine contemporary accounts of justice.
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    The challenge of irrationalism and how not to meet it.Derek Matravers - unknown
    About the book: Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Topics addressed include the nature of beauty, aesthetic experience, artistic value, and the nature of our emotional responses to art. Each question is treated by a pair of opposing essays written by eminent scholars, (...)
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    Responsibility and justice.Matt Matravers - 2007 - Malden, MA: Polity.
    In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the highly contested role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law. He asks, what are we doing when we hold people responsible in deciding questions of distributive justice or of punishment? and considers the role of philosophy in answering this very contemporary question.
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  7. Fictional assent and the (so-called) `puzzle of imaginative resistance'.Derek Matravers - 2003 - In Matthew Kieran & Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts. Routledge. pp. 91-106.
    This article criticises existing solutions to the 'puzzle of imaginative resistance', reconstrues it, and offers a solution of its own. About the Book : Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art. Imagination is a central concept in aesthetics with close ties to issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, yet it has not received the kind of (...)
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  8. ‘Who’s Still Standing?’ A Comment on Antony Duff’s Preconditions of Criminal Liability.Matt Matravers - 2006 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (3):320-330.
    Antony Duff has argued that an important precondition of criminal liability is that the state has the moral standing to call the offender to account. Conditions of severe social injustice, if allowed or perpetuated by the state, can undermine this standing. Duff’s argument appeals to the ordinary idea that a person’s own behaviour can sometimes negate his standing to call others to account. It is argued that this is an important issue, but that the analogy with individual standing is problematic. (...)
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    Empathy as a Route to Knowledge.Derek Matravers - 2011 - In Amy Coplan & Peter Goldie (eds.), Empathy. Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Oxford University Pres. pp. 19.
    Is it epistemologically better to feel an emotion that someone is having, rather than just believing he or she is having the emotion? This is the question that Derek Matravers is raising.
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    Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism.Matt Matravers - 2004 - Mind 113 (451):539-541.
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    Introducing Philosophy of Art: In Eight Case Studies.Derek Matravers - 2012 - Routledge.
    Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been selected in order to best illustrate and illuminate a particular problem in aesthetics. Each artwork forms a basis for a single chapter and readers are introduced to such issues as artistic value, intention, interpretation, and expression through a careful analysis of the artwork. Questions considered include what does art mean in contemporary art practice? Is the artistic (...)
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    Aesthetic Properties.Derek Matravers - 2005 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1):191-210.
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  13. Duff on Hart Treatment.Matt Matravers - 2011 - In Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer & Mark R. Reiff (eds.), Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff. Oxford University Press.
     
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    The paradox of fiction: the report versus the perceptual model.Derek Matravers - unknown
    I am going to assume, in what follows, that when we engage with a fiction we are participating in a game of make-believe; that is, that we are engaging in an imaginative effort. In this paper I shall attempt to identify the kind of game we are playing. I begin with two words of caution. First, identifying the kind of game will be a matter of finding a game whose structure best reflects the facts about our engagement with fiction. The (...)
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  15. The aesthetic experience.Derek Matravers - 2003 - British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (2):158-174.
    This paper joins recent attempts to defend a notion of aesthetic experience. It argues that phenomenological facts and facts about aesthetic value support the Kantian notion that aesthetic experience lies between, but differs from, pleasures of the agreeable and pleasures stemming from cognitions. It then shows that accounts by Beardsley, Levinson, and Savile fail to resolve clear tensions that surface in attempting to characterize such an experience. An account of aesthetic experience—as involving experienced cognitions that are the bearers of value—is (...)
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    Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism.Matt Matravers - 2002 - Univ of California Press.
    "Contexts of Justice is a study that covers and definitely exhausts the whole range of ten years of one of the most important recent philosophical discussions, that between liberals and communitarians."--Jurgen Habermas, author of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere "Forst addresses with great insight and acuity the debates over justice between liberals and communitarians that animated the late '80s and '90s...He uses no jargon, he reasons well, his arguments are strong, clear, and accesssible, and he avoids political correctness as (...)
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    Punishment and Political Theory.Matt Matravers (ed.) - 1999 - Hart Publishing.
    This book brings together moral and legal philosophers,criminologists and political theorists in an attempt to address the interdependence of the study of punishment and of political theory as well as specific issues, such as freedom, autonomy, coercion and rights that arise in both. In addition to new essays on the compatibility of rights and utilitarianism and of autonomy and coercion in Kant's theory, the book contains an extended treatment of the idea of punishment as communication. This theme is taken up (...)
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    Aesthetic Properties.Derek Matravers & Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79:191-227.
    Jerrold Levinson maintains that he is a realist about aesthetic properties. This paper considers his positive arguments for such a view. An argument from Roger Scruton, that aesthetic realism would entail the absurd claim that many aesthetic predicates were ambiguous, is also considered and it is argued that Levinson is in no worse position with respect to this argument than anyone else. However, Levinson cannot account for the phenomenon of aesthetic autonomy: namely, that we cannot be put in a position (...)
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    II—Jerrold Levinson.Derek Matravers - 2005 - Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 79 (1):211-227.
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    Jerrold Levinson.Derek Matravers & Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1):211–227.
  21. Why We Should Give Up on the Imagination.Derek Matravers - 2010 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 34 (1):190-199.
    This paper criticises the current orthodoxy that people who engage with fiction fils are exercising their imagination.
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  22. Beliefs and Fictional Narrators.Derek Matravers - 1995 - Analysis 55 (2):121 - 122.
    In his book _The Nature of Fiction_ Greg Currie makes the following proposal concerning the contents of works of fiction: 'Fs' is an abbreviation of 'P is true in fiction S', where P is some proposition and S is some work of fiction. 'Fs' is true iff it is reasonable for the informed reader to infer that the fictional author of S believes that P. In reading a fiction we engage in a make-believe, and the fictional author is that fictional (...)
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    Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics.Derek Matravers - 2002 - Mind 111 (444):912-916.
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    Derek Matravers.Derek Matravers & Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1):191–210.
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    Design as communication: exploring the validity and utility of relating intention to interpretation.Nathan Crilly, David Good, Derek Matravers & P. John Clarkson - unknown
    This explores the role of intention in interpreting designed artefacts. The relationship between how designers intend products to be interpreted and how they are subsequently interpreted has often been represented as a process of communication. However, such representations are attacked for allegedly implying that designers' intended meanings are somehow ‘contained’ in products and that those meanings are passively received by consumers. Instead, critics argue that consumers actively construct their own meanings as they engage with products, and therefore that designers' intentions (...)
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    Arousal theories.Derek Matravers - 2011 - In Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. Routledge.
    This survey article looks at various arousal theories which aim to illuminate the connection between music and the emotions.
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    Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?Derek Matravers - 1991 - Ratio 4 (1):25-37.
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    Legitimate Expectations in Theory, Practice, and Punishment.Matt Matravers - 2017 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 4 (2):307-323.
    This paper is concerned with how we ought to think about legitimate expectations in the non-ideal, ‘real’ world. In one (dominant) strand of contemporary theories of justice, justice requires not that each gets what she deserves, but that each gets that to which she is entitled in accordance with what Rawls calls ‘the public rules that specify the scheme of cooperation’. However, that is true only if those public rules are part of a fully just scheme and it is plausibly (...)
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    Aesthetic Properties.Derek Matravers & Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79:191-227.
    [Derek Matravers] Jerrold Levinson maintains that he is a realist about aesthetic properties. This paper considers his positive arguments for such a view. An argument from Roger Scruton, that aesthetic realism would entail the absurd claim that many aesthetic predicates were ambiguous, is also considered and it is argued that Levinson is in no worse position with respect to this argument than anyone else. However, Levinson cannot account for the phenomenon of aesthetic autonomy: namely, that we cannot be put in (...)
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    Aesthetic Concepts.Derek Matravers - 2005 - Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 79 (1):191-210.
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  31. The institutional theory: A protean creature.D. Matravers - 2000 - British Journal of Aesthetics 40 (2):242-250.
    In 1987 Jerrold Levinson wrote, in a review of George Dickie's _The Art Circle_, that in reading it he felt 'caught in a kind of aesthetic time warp'. I had the same feeling, and indeed have the same feeling when I read papers published since on Dickie's theory. A recent criticism in this journal by Oswald Hanfling is a case in point. To be fair, Hanfling explicit states that he is discussing the 1974 version of the theory rather than Dickie's (...)
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  32. Aesthetic Relativism.Derek Matravers - 2010 - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 7 (2):1-12.
    As Hume remarks, the view that aesthetic evaluations are ‘subjective’ is part of common sense—one certainly meets it often enough in conversation. As philosophers, we can distinguish the one sense of the claim (‘aesthetic evaluations are mind- dependent’) from another (‘aesthetic evaluations are relative’). A plausible reading of the former claim (‘some of the grounds of some aesthetic evaluations are response- dependent’) is true. This paper concerns the latter claim. It is not unknown, or even unexpected, to find people who (...)
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  33. Distributive and Retributive Justice1.Matt Matravers - 2011 - In Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press UK. pp. 136.
     
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    Mad, bad, or faulty? Desert in distributive and retributive justice.Matt Matravers - 2011 - In Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and Distributive Justice. Oxford University Press UK. pp. 136--151.
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    Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical.Derek Matravers - 2002 - Mind 111 (442):396-399.
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    The experience of emotion in music.Derek Matravers - 2003 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (4):353–363.
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    Institutional definitions and reasons.Derek Matravers - 2007 - British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (3):251-257.
    The paper examines certain aspects of institutionalist definitions of art, in particular whether they are committed to ‘indexing’, whereby calling something art makes it art. It is argued that there is no such commitment and that institutionalist definitions need not abandon the idea that works of art become art for specific, and substantial, reasons. The question is how reasons can be accommodated. A proposal from defenders of ‘cluster theories’ is considered and rejected. Another proposal is advanced according to which the (...)
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    Musical expressiveness.Derek Matravers - 2007 - Philosophy Compass 2 (3):373–379.
    This article assesses the current state of the philosophical debate regarding the expression of emotion in music, or expressive properties of music. It defines the question, explores a few false‐starts and then considers the solution that expressive properties are a matter of a certain ‘way of appearing’ of the music. This solution is associated with Stephen Davies and Jerrold Levinson, whose work is discussed. It is argued that work in this area has reached an impasse, and it is not clear (...)
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  39. Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology.Derek Matravers & Jonathan E. Pike (eds.) - 2002 - New York: Routledge.
    This textbook reflects the buoyant state of contemporary political philosophy, and the development of the subject in the past two decades. It includes seminal papers on fundamental philosophical issues such as: the nature of social explanation distributive justice liberalism and communitarianism citizenship and multiculturalism nationalism democracy criminal justice. A range of views is represented, demonstrating the richness of the philosophical contribution to some of the most contested areas of public policy and political decision making. Each section has an introduction by (...)
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    Wonder and cognition.Derek Matravers - unknown
    This paper explores the cognitive content, and the cognitive benefits, of the state of wonder.
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  41. Aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experiences.Derek Matravers - 1996 - British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (3):265-279.
    In this paper I want to return to some well-worn ideas; specifically, the attempt to show that there is a distinctive subject-matter of the aesthetic via consideration of the difference between aesthetic and non-aesthetic concepts. The classic exposition of this distinction is Frank Sibley's 'Aesthetic Concepts'. Sibley claimed that, given a set of relevant terms, there will be widespread non-collusive agreement as to which are aesthetic and which non-aesthetic. Non-aesthetic terms include _'red, noisy, brackish, clammy, square, docile, curved, evanescent, intelligent, (...)
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    Aesthetic Concepts And Aesthetic Experiences.Derek Matravers - 1996 - British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (3):265-277.
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    Colonizing Space.Derek Matravers, Alessandra Marino & Natalie Trevino - 2023 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1):1-10.
    This paper considers the argument that we have a duty to colonise other planets because we owe it to future generations. It puts forward the view that formulations of this argument in the current literature are confused. It distinguishes (at least) four versions of the argument and shows that none of them are compelling. It draws the conclusion that, should people put forward these arguments, they ought to be more precise in their formulations and more rigorous in their defence.
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    Aesthetic Creation – Nick Zangwill.Derek Matravers - 2009 - Philosophical Quarterly 59 (236):573-574.
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    Why Criminalize?: New Perspectives on Normative Principles of Criminalization, written by Thomas Søbirk Petersen.Matt Matravers - forthcoming - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy:1-3.
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  46. Art, expression and emotion.Derek Matravers - 2000 - In Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. Routledge.
    The primary use of such terms as "sadness" and "joy" is to refer to the mental states of people. In such cases, the claim that someone is sad is equivalent to the claim that they feel sad. However, our use of emotion terms is broader than this; a funeral is a sad occasion, a wedding is a happy event. In such cases, a justification can be given for the use of the word. For example, it is part of what is (...)
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  47. Art and the feelings and emotions.Derek Matravers - 1991 - British Journal of Aesthetics 31 (4):322-331.
    Many of the judgements we make of particular works of art employ the vocabulary of feelings or emotions. Typically, the critic uses terms such as 'sad', 'joyful', 'optimistic', 'gloomy', 'angry', 'lusty', 'exuberant' and so forth to describe aspects of works of art. Such descriptions generate one of the most intractable problems in aesthetics: that of specifying the relation between art and the feelings and emotions thus ascribed to them.
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  48. Holding psychopaths responsible.Matt Matravers - 2007 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 14 (2):pp. 139-142.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Holding Psychopaths ResponsibleMatt Matravers (bio)Keywordspsychopathy, responsibility, meta-ethics, blameILevy's interesting paper seeks to resolve the issue of the psychopath's moral responsibility in a way that avoids traditional meta-ethical debates. In what follows, I take issue both with the substantive arguments he offers about the responsibility of psychopaths and with whether those arguments can be completed while avoiding meta-ethics.I shall take it for granted that psychopathy is a genuine phenomenon and (...)
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  49. Scanlon and contractualism.Matt Matravers (ed.) - 2003 - Portland, Or.: Frank Cass.
    This collection brings together essays which reflect on the detailed arguments of "What We Owe to Each Other", and which comment critically both on Scanlon's contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide an assessment of the ability of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. So, the central questions are: "What is the (...)
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    Two comments and a problem for David Davies' performance theory.Derek Matravers - 2005 - Acta Analytica 20 (4):32-40.
    This paper considers the view, recently put forward by David Davies in Art and Performance , that works of art should be identified with the generative performances that result in the object, rather than with the object. It attempts to disarm two of Davies arguments by, first, providing a criterion by which the contextualist can accommodate all and only the relevant generative properties as properties of the work, and, second, providing an alternative explanation for his modal intuitions. Finally, it draws (...)
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