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Dr Cain Todd

Lecturer in Philosophy

Department: Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Degree: 1994-97: BA Hons. Philosophy and Medieval Studies (Sydney University) 1998-99: M.Phil. Political Thought and Intellectual History (Faculty of History and Trinity College, Cambridge) 1999-2003: Ph.D. Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Trinity College, Cambridge)

Associated research centres and groups: Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Research Interests

Most of my research concerns issues in aesthetics that have connections to issues in ethics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

More specifically, I am interested in the nature and normativity of aesthetic and ethical judgement; expressivist theories of value; the imagination; connections between aesthetic, ethical, and epistemic values; emotion; various issues in the philosophy of fiction; the aesthetic appreciation of nature, wine, and sport.

I am also interested in meta-philosophical issues such as the nature of intuitions and their use in philosophical arguments.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Aesthetics: in particular, issues in the philosophy of fiction and literature; the nature of aesthetic judgement; imagination; the emotions.

Publications

'Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire' in H.Maes & J. Levinson (eds.) Art and Pornography (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming)

'Imagination, Expressivity, and Expression in the Case of Wine' in N. Zangwill & A. Hamilton (eds.) Scruton's Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011)

'Intentionality of Emotion' in H. Pashler (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Mind (Sage, forthcoming)

The Philosophy of Wine (London: Acumen), forthcoming 2010.

'Imaginability, Morality, and Fictional Truth: Dissolving the Puzzle of 'Imaginative Resistance'', Philosophical Studies 143 (2009): 187-211

'Nature, Beauty and Tourism', in J. Tribe (ed.) Philosophical Issues in Tourism (London: Channel View, 2009), 154-170

'Unmasking the Truth beneath the Beauty: why the supposed aesthetic judgements made in science may not be aesthetic at all', International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1) (2008): 61-79

'Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value', South African Journal of Philosophy 26 (2) (2007): 216-27.

'The Aesthetic Appreciation of Cricket', Sport in Society 10 (2007): 856-77

'George Dickie', in J. Vickery and D. Costello (eds.) Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, (Oxford: Berg, 2007)

'Quasi-Realism, Acquaintance, and the Normative Claims of Aesthetic Judgement', British Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3) (2004): 277-96

'Imagination, Attitude, and Experience', Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (April, 2004)

Reviews (selection):

'Fiction and the Weave of Life' (OUP, 2007) by J. Gibson. Analysis 69 (2009): 594-6.

'Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics' (CUP, 2005) by P. Guyer. The Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007): 313-16.

'Art and Intention: a Philosophical Study' (Oxford: Clarendon Press) by P. Livingston. The Philosophical Quarterly, 57 (2007): 153-56.

'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art' (CUP, 2003) by R. Eldridge. British Journal of Aesthetics (April 2005):

'Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology' (OUP, 2002) by G. Currie and I. Ravenscroft. British Journal of Aesthetics (October, 2003):

'The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and its History' (CUP, 2002) by P. Crowther. Philosophy in Review (October, 2003):

Research Activities

From January 2011 I will be based at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland where I will be working on a 3 year research project 'Imagination, Emotion, and Value' which explores the role of imagination and emotion in judgements of value.

I am an affiliated member of the Thumos research group at the University of Geneva where I have spent the past two summers undertaking interdisciplinary research on the emotions.