Contact Details:
Email: pvl1@york.ac.uk
Phone: (43)3259
Room: D/152
Peter Lamarque
BA (UEA), BPhil (Oxon)
Previous posts include Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling (1972-1994) and Ferens Chair of Philosophy at the University of Hull (1995-2000)
Research interests
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, Fictionality, Philosophy of Language
Editorial Work
Editor of British Journal of Aesthetics: (1995-2008),
Member of editorial boards of British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics ; Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas
Teaching
Spinoza & Leibniz; Analytic Aesthetics; Imagination; Sartre’s Existentialism
Selected Publications
Books
- Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art , Oxford UP (forthcoming, 2010)
- The Philosophy of Literature , Blackwell, 2008
- Truth, Fiction, and Literature (with Stein Haugom Olsen), Clarendon Press, 1994 (paperback 1996)
- Fictional Points of View , Cornell UP, 1996
- Co-editor (with Stein Haugom Olsen) Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology, Blackwell, 2003
- Editor Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language, Elsevier Press, 1997
- Editor Philosophy and Fiction: Essays in Literary Aesthetics, Aberdeen U P, 1983 (reissued in Cybereditions, 2000, with new Preface)
Selected papers since 2003
- ‘ Fiction’, in Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics , ed. Jerrold Levinson, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 377-391
- ‘How To Create a Fictional Character’, in Berys Gaut and Paisley Livingston , eds., The Creation of Art, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 33-52
- ‘The Philosophy of Literature: Pleasure Restored’ (with Stein Haugom Olsen), in Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, ed. Peter Kivy, Blackwell, 2003, pp. 195-21
- ‘On Not Expecting Too Much From Narrative’, Mind & Language, Vol. 19, no. 4, 2004, pp.393-408
- ‘Palaeolithic Cave Painting: A Test Case for Trans-Cultural Aesthetics’, in Thomas Heyd and John Clegg, eds., Aesthetics and Rock Art, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 21-35
- ‘ Distinctness and Indiscernibility in the Allographic Arts’, in Claes Entzenberg and Simo Säätelä, eds. Perspectives on Aesthetics, Art and Culture: Essays in Honour of Lars-Olof Åhlberg, Stockholm : Thales, 2005
- ‘Cognitive Values in the Arts: Marking the Boundaries’, in Matthew Kieran, ed., Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell, 2006, pp.127-139
- ‘The Intentional Fallacy’, in Patricia Waugh, ed., Oxford Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism , Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 177-188
- ‘On Perceiving Conceptual Art’, in Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens, eds. Philosophy and Conceptual Art, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 3-17
- ‘On the Distance Between Literary Narratives and Real-Life Narratives’, in Dan Hutto, ed., Narrative and Understanding Persons. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 117-132
- ‘Aesthetics and Literature: a Problematic Relation?’ Philosophical Studies, vol. 135, no. 1 (2007), pp. 27-40
- ‘On Bringing a Work into Existence’, in Karen Bardsley, Denis Dutton, & Michael Krausz, eds. The Idea of Creativity, Brill, 2009, pp. 105-25.
- ‘Artistic Value’, in John Shand, ed., Central Issues of Philosophy, Blackwell, 2009, pp. 231-43.
- ‘The Elusiveness of Poetic Meaning’, Ratio, vol. XXII, no. 4 (2009), pp. 398-420.
- ‘Poetry and Abstract Thought’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. XXXIII, 2009, pp. 37-52.
- ‘Literature and Truth’, in Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Blackwell, 2010
- ‘Precis of The Philosophy of Literature’ and ‘Replies to Attridge, Blackburn, Feagin, and Harcourt’, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 50 (2010): 77-80, 99-106
Work in Progress
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Papers on: film and emotion (Midwest Studies in Philosophy); Scruton’s aesthetics; Wittgenstein and literature; Gerard Genette’s ontology of art
Administration
Promotions Committee; Chair of Promotions Advisory Panel for Arts and Humanities; Chair of Sub-Committee for Research Promotions; Chair of Philosophy Graduate Schools Board.