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    Together with my colleague Andy Hamilton, I ran a conference in July 2008 on the aesthetics of Roger Scruton. Details, programme and abstracts can be found here. Some photos can be found here.

         Forthcoming and just published papers (many downloadable)

    "Normativity and the Metaphysics of Mind", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2009.

    "Science and Ethics: Demarcation, Holism and Logical Consequences", European Journal of Philosophy, 2009 or 2010.

    "Negative Properties", forthcoming in Nous.

    Replies to six critics in special issue of Sztuka i Filozofia on my book Aesthetic Creation. The critics are Raf DeClercq, Larry Shiner, Gary Iseminger, Daniel Nathan, Robert Stecker, and Stephen Barker. 2010.

    "Clouds of Illusion in the Aesthetics of Nature", Philosophical Quarterly, 2010.

    "Music, Essential Metaphor and Private Language", American Philosophical Quarterly, 2010.

    “Aesthetic Concepts and Musical Aesthetic Realism”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 2010.

    “Scruton’s Musical Experiences”, Philosophy, 2010.

    "Music and Mysticism", forthcoming translated into Farsi, in Research Journal of the Iranian Academy of Arts, a journal put out by the University of Tehran.

    Some published downloadable papers:

    "Non-Cognitivist Motivation", Constantinos Sandis (ed.) New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

    Aesthetics companion entry, "Formalism". For the revised Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics.

    "Aesthetic Experience", forthcoming in a companion to Cognitive Science edited by Tim Bayne and others.

    "Down with Non-Being", forthcoming translated into Japanese, in a volume put out by Tokyo University.

    "Moral Dependence", Oxford Studies in Metaethics 3, 2008.

    “The Indifference Argument”, Philosophical Studies, 2008.

    "Besires and the Motivation Debate", Theoria, 2008. A short paper.

    "Music, Metaphor and Emotion", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2007.  

    "The Unimportance of the Avant Garde". In English for the Japanese journal, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics. Translated into Italian, for a special issue on Danto of Revista di Estetica, 2007.

    "Daydreams and Anarchy: A Defence of Anomalous Mental Causation", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 2006.

    “Moral Epistemology and the Because Constraint”, exchange with Nicholas Sturgeon, in Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, (ed.) Jamie Dreier, Blackwell, 2005.

    "Moore, Morality, Supervenience, Essence, Epistemology", American Philosophical Quarterly, 2005.

    "Explaining Cruelty: Comment on Nell", Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 2006.

    “In Defence of Extreme Formalism about Inorganic Nature: Reply to Parsons”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 2005.

    “The Normativity of the Mental”, Philosophical Explorations, 2005.

    “Rocks and Sunsets: A Defence of Ignorant Pleasures”, Revista di Estetica, 2005.

    “Against Emotion: Hanslick was Right about Music”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 2004.

    “The Myth of Religious Experience”, Religious Studies, 2004.

    “Externalist Moral Motivation”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 2003.

    “Negative Properties, Determination and Conditionals”, Topoi, special issue on existence and causal powers, 2003.

    "Perpetrator Motivation: Some Reflections on the Browning/Goldhagen Debate", in Eve Garrard and Geoffrey Scarre (eds.), Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust, Ashgate Press, 2003. Japanese translation here.

    "Beauty" in Oxford Companion to Aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2003. (9000 words)

    "Aesthetic Realism", in Oxford Companion to Aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2003. (8500 words)

    "Are There Counterexamples to Aesthetic Theories of Art?", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2002.

    "AestheticFunctionalism", in Aesthetic Concepts: Sibley and After, Emily Brady and Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2001.

    "Formal Natural Beauty", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2001.

    “Against Moral Response-Dependence”, Erkenntnis, 2001. Also somehow reappeared in 2003.

    "Skin-Deepor In the Eye of the Beholder: The Metaphysics of Aesthetic and SensoryProperties", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000.

    "FeasibleAesthetic Formalism", Nous, 1999.