dominic mciver lopes
Department of Philosophy University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1		voice +1 604 822-3828 fax +1 604 822-6096 email dom.lopes@ubc.ca vCard file

Dominic Lopes is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and 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 UBC's aesthetics group. His research focusses on pictorial representation perception the aesthetic and epistemic evaluation of pictures theories of art and the ontology of art computer art and new art forms This year, he is finishing up a book on computer art and a papers on the theory of art and its value, empathy in art, aesthetic testimony through art and demonstrative reference through pictures. Lopes is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and co-edits Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He has served as a Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics and as program chair of its annual and Pacific Division meetings. He was also program chair of the 2005 APA Pacific Division Meetings and, beginning in 2008, he will be Secretary-Treasurer of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division. Lopes is past fellow of the National Humanities Center and an Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He holds Indiana University Teaching Excellence Awards and the 1997 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize.

classes 339 Philosophy of Art publications books 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) [abstract] [amazon.com] edited books 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 Nobody Needs a Theory of Art, Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) [abstract] An Empathic Eye, Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, ed. Peter Goldie and Amy Coplan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) [abstract] Genre, with Brian Laetz, The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy, ed. Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (London: Routledge, forthcoming) Drawing in a Social Science: Lithic Illustration, Perspectives on Science (forthcoming) [abstract] Objects of Appropriation, with Andrea Naomi Walsh, The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, ed. James O. Young and Conrad Brunk (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming) Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression, with Vincent Bergeron, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming) [abstract] Virtues of Art: Good Taste, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (2008) 197-211 [abstract] 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]