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Berys Gaut

Berys Gaut

British author

Berys Gaut is an author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.[1] He writes on aesthetics, creativity, philosophy of film, and ethics.[2] He was president of the British Society of Aesthetics until 2018.[3]

Works

Gaut has written two monographs, numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed many chapters to edited volumes and edited several books. In Art, Emotion and Ethics (2007) he explores the connection between aesthetics and ethics.[4] In A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (2010) many of his previously published papers on cinema are collected.[5] He has edited several books including The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, together with Dominic McIver Lopes (first edition 2001), The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, together with Paisley Livingston (2003) and Creativity and Philosophy, together with Matthew Kieran (2018). He has co-authored Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide (2011) with primary school teacher Morag Gaut.[6]

Monographs

  • Art, Emotion and Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • A Philosophy of Cinematic Art, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Edited books

  • Ethics and Practical Reason, co-edited with Garrett Cullity, Oxford University Press,1997.
  • The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, co-edited with Dominic McIver Lopes, Routledge, 2001. Second edition, 2005. Third edition, 2013.
  • The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, co-edited with Paisley Livingston, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Creativity and Philosophy, co-edited with Matthew Kieran, Routledge, 2018.

Most recent articles

  • "The Philosophy of Creativity", Philosophy Compass 5 (12), 2010, pp. 1034–46.
  • "Film and Language" in Patrick Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 310–11.
  • "Telling Stories: Narration, Emotion, and Insight in Memento" in Noel Carroll and John Gibson (eds), Narrative, Emotion, and Insight, Penn State University Press, 2011, pp. 23–44.
  • "A Philosophy of Cinematic Art--The Big Picture" and "Replies to Ponech, Curran, and Allen", British Journal of Aesthetics, 52 (2), 2012, pp. 183–6 and 201-8.
  • "Creativity and Rationality", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 70 (3) 2012, pp. 259–70.
  • "Teaching Philosophy to Young Children" in Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak and Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.), Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers, Routledge, 2013, pp. 132–40; co-authored with Morag Gaut.
  • "Mixed Motivations: Creativity as a Virtue", Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 75, 2014, pp. 183–202.
  • "Educating for Creativity" in Elliot Samuel Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman (eds.), The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 265–87.
  • "Creativity", "The Intentional Fallacy", "Fiction and Non-fiction", "Depiction" and "Consequentialism", entries in Robert Audi (ed)., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • "Elegy in L.A.: Blade Runner, Empathy and Death" in Amy Coplan and David Davies (eds.), Blade Runner, Routledge, 2015, pp. 31–45.
  • "Cinematic Art and Technology" in Katherine Thomson-Jones (ed.), Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Film, Routledge, 2016, pp. 17–35.
  • "The Value of Creativity" in Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (eds.), Creativity and Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.
  • "Philosophising about Creativity", co-authored with Matthew Kieran, in Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (eds.), Creativity and Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.

References

  1. [1]
    "Professor Berys Gaut". University of St Andrews. Archived from the original on 24 November 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Berys Gaut (University of St. Andrews) - PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Berys Gaut". British Society of Aesthetics. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  4. [4]
    Jacobson, Daniel (2008). "Review: Art, Emotion and Ethics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  5. [5]
    Thomson‐Jones, Katherine (2011). "Review: A Philosophy of Cinematic Art – Berys Gaut". The Philosophical Quarterly. 61: 445–446. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.695_15.x.
  6. [6]
    Gaut, Berys; Gaut, Morag (1 March 2013). Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide. Routledge. ISBN 9781136736056.
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