Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: BEYOND AESTHETICS -- ART AND INTERACTION -- BEAUTY AND THE GENEALOGY OF ART THEORY -- FOUR CONCEPTS OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TRADITIONAL ACCOUNT -- THE PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT -- THE ALLEGORICAL ACCOUNT -- THE DEFLATIONARY ACCOUNT -- PART II: ART, HISTORY, AND NARRATIVE -- ART, PRACTICE, AND NARRATIVE -- I -- II -- III -- IDENTIFYING ART -- IDENTIFICATION, ESSENCE, AND DEFINITION -- NARRATION AND IDENTIFICATION -- LEVINSON AND DANTO -- HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART -- I. SETTING THE STAGE -- II. THE ROLE OF IDENTIFYING NARRATIVES -- III. THE STRUCTURE OF IDENTIFYING NARRATIVES -- IV. SOME OBJECTIONS -- ON THE NARRATIVE CONNECTION -- I. DEFINING THE NARRATIVE CONNECTION -- II. SOME OBJECTIONS -- III. NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION -- INTERPRETATION, HISTORY, AND NARRATIVE -- 1. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AS FICTIONS AND AS METAPHORS -- 2. WHITE'S ARGUMENTS -- 3. RESISTING WHITE'S CONSTRUCTIVISM -- PART III: INTERPRETATION AND INTENTION -- ART, INTENTION, AND CONVERSATION -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- ANGLO-AMERICAN AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM: INTENTION AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A NOTE ON INTENTIONALISM -- III. THE CASE OF JULES VERNE -- IV. DEFENDING INTENTIONALISM -- V. AESTHETICS AND CRITICISM -- THE INTENTIONAL FALLACY: DEFENDING MYSELF -- I. A QUESTION OF SCOPE -- II. THE NATURE OF INTERPRETATION -- III. PLACING THE ARTIST -- INTERPRETATION AND INTENTION: THE DEBATE BETWEEN HYPOTHETICAL AND ACTUAL INTENTIONALISM -- PART IV: ART, EMOTION, AND MORALITY -- ART, NARRATIVE, AND EMOTION -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PLATO VERSUS THE COGNITIVE THEORY OF THE EMOTIONS -- III. AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE RELATION OF EMOTION AND NARRATIVE -- IV. RAMIFICATIONS FOR RESEARCH.

V. FICTION AND THE EMOTIONS -- HORROR AND HUMOR -- I. STAGE ONE: HORROR -- II. STAGE TWO: HUMOR -- THE PARADOX OF SUSPENSE -- THE PROBLEM -- A THEORY OF THE NATURE OF SUSPENSE -- SOLVING THE PARADOX OF SUSPENSE -- ART, NARRATIVE, AND MORAL UNDERSTANDING -- MODERATE MORALISM -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RADICAL AUTONOMISM -- III. MODERATE AUTONOMISM -- SIMULATION, EMOTIONS, AND MORALITY -- PART V: ALTERNATIVE TOPICS -- ON JOKES -- FREUD'S THEORY OF JOKES -- AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE OF JOKES -- ETHICS AND JOKES -- THE PARADOX OF JUNK FICTION -- VISUAL METAPHOR -- I. INTRODUCING VISUAL METAPHOR -- II. COMPETING HYPOTHESES -- IIA. THERE ARE NO VISUAL METAPHORS -- IIB. ALL VISUAL IMAGES ARE METAPHORS -- III. IDENTIFYING VISUAL METAPHORS -- IV. CONCLUSION -- ON BEING MOVED BY NATURE: BETWEEN RELIGION AND NATURAL HISTORY -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SCIENCE BY ELIMINATION -- III. THE CLAIMS OF OBJECTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY -- IV. ORDER APPRECIATION -- EMOTION, APPRECIATION, AND NATURE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EMOTION AND APPRECIATION -- III. DISSOLVING THE DIFFERENCE? -- IV. CARLSON AND KANT -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- ART AND INTERACTION -- BEAUTY AND THE GENEALOGY OF ART THEORY -- FOUR CONCEPTS OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE -- ART, PRACTICE, AND NARRATIVE -- IDENTIFYING ART -- HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART -- ON THE NARRATIVE CONNECTION -- INTERPRETATION, HISTORY, AND NARRATIVE -- ART, INTENTION, AND CONVERSATION -- ANGLO-AMERICAN AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM: INTENTION AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION -- THE INTENTIONAL FALLACY: DEFENDING MYSELF -- INTERPRETATION AND INTENTION: THE DEBATE BETWEEN HYPOTHETICAL AND ACTUAL INTENTIONALISM -- ART, NARRATIVE, AND EMOTION -- HORROR AND HUMOR -- THE PARADOX OF SUSPENSE -- ART, NARRATIVE, AND MORAL UNDERSTANDING -- MODERATE MORALISM -- SIMULATION, EMOTIONS, AND MORALITY -- ON JOKES.

THE PARADOX OF JUNK FICTION -- VISUAL METAPHOR -- ON BEING MOVED BY NATURE: BETWEEN RELIGION AND NATURAL HISTORY -- EMOTION, APPRECIATION, AND NATURE -- INDEX.