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The Pleasures of Regret - Art and Emotion The National Gallery
Centre for Philosophy and Art

The Pleasures of Regret - Art and Emotion The National Gallery

I completed my PhD in Philosophy at King's College, London in 2020.

 

Currently, my research focusses on the malleability and adeptness of our perspective-taking. In particular,  our imaginative shifts, both in terms of spatial changes (imagine you are looking down on yourself) and temporal changes (imagine you are sat exactly where you are but in 10 years time).

 

Understanding how this works help us get to grips with empathic shifts. That is, shifts into the shoes of others (whether now or at a different point in time).

 

This knowledge contributes to our understanding of art. Because these kinds of shifts enable us, as competent appreciators of art, to disclose the affective content and value of specific works.

 

Alongside my research, I co-Direct the Centre for Philosophy and Arts (CPA). The Centre is a major multi-disciplinary initiative whose aim is to bring together academics, artists, curators and gallerists to explore the connections between philosophy, theory and the visual arts.

Publications & Films

Academic Writing & Conference Papers

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Academic Journals & Books

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Teaching 

Guest teacher King's College London

Guest teacher The National Gallery

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Popular Philosophy Films

Wollheim Centenary film

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Time for Twofoldness

(request due to licensing)

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Time For Beauty:Depictions 

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Time for Musical Expression

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Time for Expressiveness 

(request due to licensing)

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The Pleasures of Regret 

National Gallery Series

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Is Love Moral?

National Gallery Series

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The Sublime

National Gallery Series

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Euphoria

​National Gallery Series

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Residency

The Forty Hall Vineyards

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Postdoctoral Project

'Time for Beauty'
BSA Fellowship 2022-3 

I am thrilled to have been awarded the BSA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022-3. My project will be to explore the poorly defined concept of time-based aesthetic properties in (still) pictures, which I claim, helps to explain the representation and the expression of sophisticated emotions, such as regret, nostalgia, and euphoria.  This challenges a longstanding assumption that expressiveness in a picture (and other aesthetic properties) depends solely on spatial extension -  a curve here or a line there – while musical expressiveness depends on temporal properties namely, rhythm, melody, and cadence. However, given that sophisticated emotions such as nostalgia point to the past, it seems that the expressive qualities of at least some (such as nostalgic) pictures are interestingly time based.

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