Department of Philosophy and Religion

Books

• Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time. Bloomsbury Academic (2020).
  • See a review here.

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Ethics and Video Games", in the Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art, edited by James Harold. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• “Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”, in the Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics library, edited by Darren Hudson Hick (forthcoming).
• "Computer Art, Technology, and the Medium", in Being and Value in Technology, edited by Enrico Terrone and Vera Tripodi, Palgrave Macmillan (2022): 141-161.
• "Pluralism, Eliminativism, and the Definition of Art", co-authored with Jack M. C. Kwong, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 58.2 (2021): 100-113. 
• “Art, Aesthetics, and the Medium: Comments for Nguyen on the Art-Status of Games”, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (2021). 
• "Ordinary Monsters: Ethical Criticism and the Lives of Artists", Contemporary Aesthetics 17 (2019). 
• "Hypocrisy as Either Deception or Akrasia", The Philosophical Forum 50 (2019): 269-281. 
• "The Ontology of Musical Works and the Role of Intuitions: An Experimental Study", European Journal of Philosophy 26 (2018): 348-367. 
  • CLICK HERE for files relating to the experimental study reported in this paper.
• “‘It’s Just a Story’: Pornography, Desire, and the Ethics of Fictive Imagining”, co-authored with Anna Cremaldi, British Journal of Aesthetics 58 (2018): 37-50. 
  • For a summary of the above, see “Are our fantasies immune from morality?”. Co-authored with Anna Cremaldi. OUPblog, 25 January 2019.
• "Ontology and Transmedial Games", in The Aesthetics of Videogames, edited by Grant Tavinor and Jon Robson, Routledge (2018): 9-23.
• "Rock as a Three-Value Tradition", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (2017): 143-154.
• "Free Will and Moral Responsibiliy in Video Games", Ethics and Information Technology 17 (2015): pp. 285-293.
• "The Metaphysics of Mash-Ups", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (2015): pp. 297-308.
• "The Puzzle of Historical Criticism", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2012): pp. 213-222.
• "Resolving the Gamer's Dilemma", Ethics and Information Technology 14 (2012):  pp. 11-16.
• "Music Without Metaphysics?", British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 51 (2011):  pp. 383-398.
• “The ‘Fine Art’ of Pornography?” In Porn: Philosophy for Everyone, Dave Monroe (ed) (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010):  pp. 153-165.
• "Understanding Manipulative Performance Art", Philosophical Frontiers, vol. 5 (2010):  pp. 43-54.
• "Originality and Value", Hermeneia, vol. 10 (2010): pp. 66-77.
• “Conceptual Content and Aesthetic Perception”, Analyses: Proceedings of the 2^nd National Meeting for the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy. Porto, Portugal: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, (2006): 299-306. 
• "Musical Thought and Compositionality", Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 3 (2006): pp. 25-36.

Encyclopedia Articles

• "Cognitive Science and Aesthetics", in the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Michael Kelly (ed), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014): pp. 70-74.

Academic Blog Contributions

• "Why Video Game Violence Isn't Innocent". Aesthetics for Birds, 27 October 2020.
  • Reprinted as "The Resonance of Violence". Institute of Arts and Ideas 96, 8 June 2021.
• "Playing Games with History: Philosophers on the Ethics of Historical Board Games". Aesthetics for Birds, 21 August 2019.
• “Are our fantasies immune from morality?”. Co-authored with Anna Cremaldi. OUPblog, 25 January 2019.
• Critical precis of John Holliday’s essay, “The Puzzle of Factual Praise”. Aesthetics for Birds, 11 May 2017.
• “Punk Music and the Ontology of Rock Recordings”. Aesthetics for Birds, 21 November 2013.

Book Reviews

• Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds, by Mark Silcox (ed.). Journal of the Philosophy of Games (2018).
• Music and Aesthetic Reality, by Nick Zangwill, Philosophy in Review 36 (1): 42-43.
• Musical Understandings, by Stephen Davies, Mind, vol. 123 (2014): pp. 1184-1187.
• Art and Pornography, edited by Hans Maes and Jerrold Levinson, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 54 (2014): pp. 510-512.
• How Music Moves Us, by Jeanette Bicknell, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 68 (2010): pp. 317-319.
• The Performance of Reading, by Peter Kivy, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60 (2010):  pp. 220-222.
• Works of Music, by Julian Dodd, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 59 (2009):  pp. 760-762.
• Listening to Popular Music, by Theodore Gracyk. British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 48 (2008):  pp. 357-359.
• The Musical Representation, by Charles O. Nussbaum. Philosophy in Review, Vol. 28 (2008):  pp. 212-214.
• Art and Value, by George Dickie, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 45 (2005):  pp. 94-96.
• Is Art Good for Us? Beliefs about High Culture in American Life, by Joli Jensen, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 44 (2004):  pp. 93-96.