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 book entitled Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value and a paper co-authored with Diarmuid Costello on the work of photographer James Welling, as well as papers on conceptual art, aesthetic disagreement, and methodology in the philosophy of art. Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures, Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.
Lopes is President of the American Society for Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Cognitive Semiotics, and Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Working with Berys Gaut he co-edits Wiley-Blackwell’s New Directions in Aesthetics book series.
He has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center, Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Warwick, in addition to holding visiting positions at Ritsumeikan University, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Miami. 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.
courses
All courses are available on UBC Connect
102 Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2015)
591 Evaluative Perception (Spring 2015)upcoming talks
Channel Conditions, Keynote Address, Internationaler Kongress der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik: Verstehen und Verständigung, Tübingen, September 24, 2014
Fans, Buffs, Freaks, and Nuts, Presidential Address, American Society for Aesthetics, San Antonio, October 31, 2014
Aesthetic Response: Foundations of Empirical Studied, Rutgers University, November 18, 2014
Aesthetic Agency and Value, University of Ottawa, January 16, 2015
Keynote Address, INTERACT! Postgraduate Conference in Aesthetics, University of Kent, February 7–8, 2015
Keynote Address, Scottish Aesthetics Forum, Edinburgh, February 11, 2015
Abstract Photography, New Views in the Philosophy of Photography, Institute of Philosophy, London, February 13-14, 2015
Keynote Address, More Than Pretty Pictures: The Aesthetics of Scientific and Artistic Data Representation, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, April 16–19, 2015
books
Four Arts of Photography (Oxford: Wiley, forthcoming)
Beyond Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) [amazon.com]
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). Reprinted as Comprendre les images: Une théorie de la représentation iconique, trans. Laure Blanc-Benon (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014) [abstract] [amazon.com]
edited works
Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 3rd ed., ed. with Berys Gaut (London: Routledge, 2000, 2005, 2013) [abstract] [amazon.com] [routledge]
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Special Issue on The Media of Photography, ed. with Diarmuid Costello 70.1 (2012). Reprinted as The Media of Photography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 [Wiley]
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]
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
Feckless Reason, Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind, ed. Gregory Currie, Matthew Kieran, and Aaron Meskin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) [OUP]
Art and Perception, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, ed. Mohan Matthen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) [oxford handbooks]
Photography and the "Picturesque Agent," Critical Inquiry 38.4 (2012) 855-69 [jstor]
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]
