DOMINIC McIVER LOPES
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
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Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms. He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.
Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures, Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.
Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be president in 2013-15), a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Aesthetics, and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and co-edits Wiley-Blackwell’s New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.
This fall, he will be a Stanford Visiting Professor at the University of Miami Center for the Humanities. From January to July 2012 he will be a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. He has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and a Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, in addition to holding visiting positions at Ritsumeikan University, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He has won two Indiana University Teaching Excellence Awards, a Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize, the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize, and a Killam Research Prize.
upcoming talks
Four Arts of Photography, The Mangoletsi Lectures, University of Leeds, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012
TBA, University of Durham, May 16, 2012
Beyond Art, University of Kent, May 30, 2012
TBA, Graduate/Early Career Workshop in Aesthetics, University of Leeds, June 26, 2012
Photography, Plugged and Unplugged, Dartmouth College, October 19, 2012
books
A Philosophy of Computer Art (London: Routledge, 2009) [book web site]
Winner of the 2009 Outstanding Book Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics
Designated an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice (the American Library Association)Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 [paperback August 2007]) [abstract] [amazon.com] [sample chapter]
Understanding Pictures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). Forthcoming in French, trans. Laure Blanc-Benon (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes) [abstract] [amazon.com]
edited works
Knowing Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology, ed. with Matthew Kieran. Philosophical Studies Series 107 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006) [abstract] [amazon.com] [springer]
Philosophical Studies. 127.1 (2006) [springer]
Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd ed., ed. with Berys Gaut (London: Routledge, 2000, 2005) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, ed. with Matthew Kieran (London: Routledge, 2003) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Philosophy of Literature: An Anthology, ed. with Eileen John (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) [abstract] [amazon.com]
selected articles
Photography and the "Picturesque Agent," Critical Inquiry 38.4 (2012)
The Myth of (Non-aesthetic) Artistic Value, Philosophical Quarterly 61 (2011) 518-36 [abstract] [Wiley]
Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetic Science: Prospects for Integration, with Vincent Bergeron, Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience, ed. Steven Palmer and Arthur Shimamura (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) [abstract]
An Empathic Eye, Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, ed. Peter Goldie and Amy Coplan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Picture This: Image-Based Demonstratives, Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, ed. Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) [abstract] [amazon.com] [OUP]
Aesthetic Acquaintance, The Modern Schoolman Special Issue on Varieties of Perception 86.2-3 (2009) 267-81
Objects of Appropriation, with Andrea Naomi Walsh, The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, ed. James O. Young and Conrad Brunk (Oxford: Wiley, 2009) [amazon.com]
Drawing in a Social Science: Lithic Illustration, Perspectives on Science 17 (2009) 5-25 [abstract] [project muse]
Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression, with Vincent Bergeron, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2009) 1-16 [abstract]
Genre, with Brian Laetz, Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy, ed. Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (London: Routledge, 2008)
Virtues of Art: Good Taste, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (2008) 197-211 [abstract] [synergy]
Nobody Needs a Theory of Art, Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008) 109-27. Reprinted in The Nature of Art: An Anthology, ed. Wartenberg, 3rd ed. New York: Wadsworth, 2011. [abstract] [jphil]
True Appreciation, Photography and Philosophy: New Essays on the Pencil of Nature, ed. Scott Walden (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Art Without 'Art,' British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (2007) 1-15 [abstract] [oup]
Conceptual Art Is Not What It Seems, Philosophy and Conceptual Art, ed. Peter Goldie and Elizabeth Schellekens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Shikinen Sengu: The Ontology of Architecture in Japan, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2007) 77-84 [abstract] [synergy]
The Domain of Depiction, in Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, ed. Matthew Kieran (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Directive Pictures, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2004) 189-96 [abstract] [synergy]
The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency, Mind 112 (2003) 335-48. Reprinted in Philosophy of Film: An Anthology, ed. Noël Carroll and Jinhee Choi (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) and also in reprinted in Arguing about Art, 3rd ed. (London: Routledge, 2007) [abstract] [oup]
Pictures and the Representational Mind, Monist 86.4 (2003): 35-52. Reprinted in Italian translation in Discipline Filosofiche 25 (2005) 59-80 [abstract] [ebsco]
Digital Art, Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, ed. Luciano Floridi (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) [abstract] [amazon.com]
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, in Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, ed. Matthew Kieran and Dominic McIver Lopes (London: Routledge, 2003) [abstract]
Vision, Touch, and the Value of Pictures, British Journal of Aesthetics 42 (2002) 187-97 [abstract] [oup]
The Ontology of Interactive Art, Journal of Aesthetic Education 35.4 (2001) 65-81 [abstract] [jstor]
What Is It Like to See with Your Ears? The Representational Theory of Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2000) 439-53 [abstract] [jstor]
From Languages of Art to Art in Mind, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (2000) 227-31 [abstract] [jstor]
Mimesis and Moral Vision, Soundings 83 (2000) 801-21 [abstract]
Pictorial Color: Aesthetics and Cognitive Science, Philosophical Psychology 12 (1999) 415-28 [abstract] [ingenta]
Imagination, Illusion and Experience in Film, Philosophical Studies 89 (1998) 343-53 [abstract] [springer]
Art Media and the Sense Modalities: Tactile Pictures, Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1997) 425-40 [abstract] [synergy] [jstor]
Pictorial Realism, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (1995) 277-85 [abstract] [jstor]
Pictures, Styles and Purposes, British Journal of Aesthetics 32 (1992) 330-41 [abstract] [oup]
