Art, Representation, and Make-Believe

Sonia Sedivy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research focuses on perception, aesthetics, and the later work of Wittgenstein. Beauty and the End of Art: Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception (2016) offers a new approach to the diversity of art and beauty by bringing aesthetics together with the philosophy of perception and the later work of Wittgenstein. “Aesthetic Properties, History and Perception” shows how philosophy of perception and aesthetics inform one another in Art, History, Perception, a Special Issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics that she guest edited. She is currently writing a book on perception that draws on aesthetics.

• 1. Introduction: The Reach of Make-BelieveSonia Sedivy Part I: Fiction and the Verbal Arts2. Fictionality in Imagined WorldsStacie Friend3. Walton and Fictional CharactersEileen John 4. Walton on ‘the Paradox of Fiction’: Confusions and MisunderstandingsDerek Matravers 5. Fear and Loathing in Fictional Worlds: Quasi-Emotion, Nonexistence, and the Slime ParadigmEva Dadlez 6. Lyric Self-ExpressionJohn Gibson and Hanna H. Kim7. Reading (with) OthersWolfgang Huemer8. The Puzzle of Fictional MoralityStuart Brock Part II: Visual Art, Photography and Music9. The Puzzle of Make-Believe About Pictures: Can One Imagine a Perception to Be Different?Sonia Sedivy 10. Holey Images and the Roles of RealismJohn V. Kulvicki 11. Photography as a Category of ArtDiarmuid Costello 12. Transparency and EgocentrismNils-Hennes Stear13. Photographs and Memories Christopher C. Williams14. Fiction, Fictionality, and PicturesPaloma Atencia-Linares15. Understanding Humour, Understanding People, and Understanding MusicJulian DoddPart III: Themes in Aesthetics: Agency, Appearances and Norms16. Style and the Agency in ArtGregory Currie17. Veridical Appearances of Production and Marxist AestheticsBryan Parkhurst18. Playing with the Rules of the Game: Imagination, Normativity, and Address in AestheticsMonique Roelofs Part IV: Beyond Aesthetics: Meaning, Metaphysics and Science19. ‘Existence as Metaphor’ RevisitedFrederick Kroon 20. Say Holmes Exists; Then What?Stephen Yablo 21. Scientific Modelling and Make-BelieveRoman Frigg22. The Story of the Ghost in the MachineAdam Toon Part V: Walton in Conversation23. Walton in ConversationKendall L. Walton