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Rob van Gerwen

December 13, 2011

Resume

Key Publications
  • Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting. Art as Representation and Expression, (ed.). 285 pp. Cambridge University Press, ®, 2001.

  • `Mathematical Beauty and Perceptual Presence' Philosophical Investigations, 34:3, 2011, pp. 249-267. ®
  • 'Hearing Musicians Making Music. A Critique of Roger Scruton's notion of `Acousmatic Experience'' (In Press, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism). ®, 70:1 Spring 2012, pp. 223-230.
  • 'Ethical Autonomism. The Work of Art as a Moral Agent.' Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 2, 2004. ®
  • 'On Exemplary Art as the Symbol of Morality. Making Sense of Kant's Ideal of Beauty.' In: Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung. Akten des IX. Kant Kongresses, Bd. 3, 553-62, Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001. (115K) ®
  • 'Television as an Art. On Humiliation-TV.' Ruth Lorand (ed.) Television: Aesthetic Reflections. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002, 161-80. (Abstract) (262K) ®
  • 'De ontologische drogreden in de analytische esthetica' Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 94, 2002:2, 109-123. (152K) ®

Research interests

1. Aesthetics and ethics 2. Philosophy of Art
The intersections Internet
Moral Judgement and Autonomous Art Expression
Phenomenology of Perception Representation
Moral psychology Artistic Empathy
Immoral art Definition of 'Art'
3. Philosophy of Psychology 4. History of Aesthetics
Perception / Memory David Hume
Expression / Emotion Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Empathy / Imagination Immanuel Kant
Extended Mind Ludwig Wittgenstein
5. Methodology
Conceptual Analysis
Phenomenology
Hermeneutics
Philosophical Grammar

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Further details in my bibliography.

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