Art, Mind, and Narrative

Julian Dodd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester and Director of the Mind Association. He has written predominantly in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and aesthetics. His publications include two monographs, An Identity Theory of Truth (Palgrave, 2000) and Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (Oxford University Press, 2007), as well as the co-edited collection (with Helen Beebee), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is currently working on topics in the philosophy of music and, in particular, a book-length project about authenticity in musical performance.

• PART I. NARRATIVE THINKING; PART II. EMOTION, MIND, AND ART; PART III. ART, VALUE, AND ONTOLOGY

the excellent introduction by Julian Dodd ... provides very useful summaries of all the papers included, and also manages to give a coherent picture of some of the central issues and problems dominating Goldie's work, as well as a good sense of the richness of Goldie's approach to them... Inevitably, some of the papers focus more directly on Goldie's work than others, and one virtue of the volume is that the former are of uniformly high enough quality to ensure that the issues they treat are not too narrowly focussed; whilst the latter together offer a rewardingly broad survey of a number of philosophical areas.