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Paisley Livingston

Disciplines:
aesthetics
philosophy of action/philosophy of film
philosophy of language/philosophy of literature

Summary

American philosopher who has contributed to the ontology of film, the theory of authorship, and narrative theory.

Core Contribution

Art and Intention: a defense of intentionalism in interpretation — the meaning of artworks is determined by the actual intentions of their makers. Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: film as philosophy.

Notable Works & Achievements

Art and Intention

Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman

Historical Influences

Paul Grice Kendall Walton

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

Noël Carroll Gregory Currie

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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