My published research work falls mostly into two categories: pieces on imagination and pieces on aesthetics.
On imagination, I’ve been gradually coalescing my thought into a fairly heterodox view. The two best pieces for seeing what that view is are “Imagination as a Process” (open access) and “Imagination: A Lens, Not A Mirror” (also open access). These together constitute a programmatic sketch of a view on which imagination is a lens-like mental process, not a belief-like mental state (as the orthodox view has it). The other imagination articles all bear some relation to this view, though sometimes an oblique one.
On aesthetics, there’s no central theme, just a selection of articles on such things as pop and dance music, expression theory, and aesthetics as a sub-discipline. The most splashy paper is probably “The Aesthetic Constitution of Genders”, which brings together a way of reading literature on social ontology and recent work on aesthetic practice to explore the ways in which aesthetic practices construct genders. It’ll be open access when it’s properly published; for now, here’s a preprint.
That paper also illustrates how feminist philosophy, or philosophy of race and gender, figures in my work: not so much as a primary focus, more of a methodological and thematic orientation. The other paper that illustrates this best is “Understanding What It’s Like To Be (Dis)Privileged”, which again is open access.
Here’s a full list of my published work:
Articles
The Aesthetic Constitution of Genders. Ergo, forthcoming (here’s a preprint).
Imagination as a Process. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2022). Open access.
Talk About Pop Muzik. British Journal of Aesthetics (2020). Open access.
Understanding What It’s Like To Be (Dis)Privileged. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2021). Open access.
Imagination: A Lens, Not A Mirror. Philosophers' Imprint (2019). Open access.
Characterizing the Imaginative Attitude. Philosophical Papers (2019). For accepted MS, contact me; version of record here.
Feeling, Emotion, and Imagination: In Defence of Collingwood’s Expression Theory of Art. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2017). Accepted MS here; version of record here.
Lonely Arts: The Status of Aesthetics as a Sub-Discipline. Metaphilosophy (2017). For accepted MS, contact me; version of record here.
Against the Additive View of Imagination. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2016). Accepted MS here; version of record here.
The Aesthetics of Electronic Dance Music, Part I: History, Genre, Scenes, Identity, Blackness. Philosophy Compass (2016). For accepted MS, contact me; version of record here.
The Aesthetics of Electronic Dance Music, Part II: Dancers, DJs, Ontology and Aesthetics. Philosophy Compass (2016). For accepted MS, contact me; version of record here.
book chapters
“Imagination, Selves, and Knowledge of Self: Pessoa’s Dreams in The Book of Disquiet”. The Epistemic Uses of Imagination, ed. Amy Kind and Christopher Badura (2021). Co-written with Bence Nanay.
“Philosophers In Conversation With Learning-Disabled Performers”. Philosophy and Community: Theory, Practice and Possibilities, ed. Amanda Fulford, Amanda, Richard Smith, and Grace Lockrobin (2020). Co-written with Aaron Meskin.
"The Cinematic Image". Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, ed. Noël Carroll, Laura Teresa Di Summa-Knoop, and Shawn Loht (2020). Co-written with Aaron Meskin.
"Art and Imagination". Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, ed. Amy Kind (2016). Co-written with Aaron Meskin.
Reviews
Review of Simon J. Evnine (ed.), A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Meme Project and its Parerga! Volume 1. Philosophy in Review (2024). Open access.
Review of Rita Felski, Hooked: Art and Attachment. British Journal of Aesthetics (2023). Open access.
Review of Jonathan Gilmore, Apt Imaginings. Estetika (2021). Open access.
Review of Bernard Harrison, What is Fiction For?, and J. Hillis Miller, Communities in Fiction. Philosophical Quarterly (2018), https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqx063.
Review of Dominic Gregory, Showing, Sensing, and Seeming: Distinctively Sensory Representations and Their Contents. Philosophy in Review 35:3 (2015), pp.143-145.
Review of Walter Hopp, Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account, and Charles Travis, Perception: Essays After Frege. Philosophical Quarterly 65:260 (2015), pp.596-600.
Review of Robert L. Wicks, European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online, 2013).