Art, Mind, and Narrative Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie

This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within these sections, leading authorities in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and the emotions offer the reader entry points into many of the most exciting contemporary debates in these areas of philosophy. Topics covered include the role that narrative thinking plays in our lives, our imaginative engagement with fiction, the emotions and their role in the motivation of action, the connection between artistic activity and human well-being, and the appreciation and ontological status of conceptual artworks.

1 - A Mess Indeed: Empathic Access, Narrative, and Identity
2 - Life and Narrative
3 - Peter Goldie on Narrative Thinking
4 - The Foundations of Narrative
5 - The Dangers of Fiction: Lord Jim and Moral Perfectionism
6 - Remember Leonard Shelby : Memento and the Double Life of Memory
7 - Free Indirect Discourse and Imagining from the Inside
8 - Perceptual Recognition, Emotion and Value
9 - Love and Reason: Reflections on Themes from Peter Goldie
10 - Sentiment and Sentimentality: Affective Attachment and Orientation in Life and Art
11 - Expressing Emotions: From Action to Art
12 - Missing Persons
13 - Aesthetic Sensibility, Epistemic Virtue and Emotional Sharing
14 - In the eye of the Beholder
15 - The Ontology of Conceptual Art: Against the Idea Idea

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.