American philosopher who developed a constructivist worldmaking view — there is no mind-independent world, only versions of it — and a symbol-theoretic account of art in Languages of Art.
Languages of Art: artworks are symbol systems functioning either denotatively (representation) or expressively (exemplification — the work instantiates the property it refers to). Grue paradox: the problem of induction cannot be solved by invoking natural predicates alone — entrenchment of predicates determines what is projectible.
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