Philosophy of the arts.

Also has interests and teaching commitments in political philosophy.

2009. 'Responding Emotionally to Fictions.' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 67, 269-284.

2009. A Companion to Aesthetics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, xvi + 621. Second edition. Co-edited with K. Higgins, R. Hopkins, R. Stecker, & D. Cooper.

2009. "Twentieth-century Anglo-American Analytic Aesthetics." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins, R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 61-73. Co-authored with Robert Stecker.

2009. "Music and Song." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins,  R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 91-95. Co-authored with John Andrew Fisher.

2009. "Danto, Arthur C(oleman)." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins,  R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-229. Co-authored with David Novitz.

2009. "Evolution, Aesthetics, and Art." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins,  R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 259-261.

2009. "Notations." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins, R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 441-443.

2009. "Performance." In S. Davies, K. M. Higgins, R. Hopkins, R. Stecker, & D, E, Cooper (eds.), A Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell,460-462.

2009. "Aniruddh D. Patel's Music, Language, and the Brain," Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, 78-83.

2009. Andy Hamilton, Aesthetics and Music, (London: Continuum), Analysis, 69, 397-398.

2008. 'Trying to Define Art as the Sum of the Arts,' Pazhouhesh Nameh-e Farhangestan-e Honar (Research Journal of the Iranian Academy of the Arts), 8, Spring (2008): 12-23. (Also in Persian in the same journal.)

2008. 'Musical Works and Orchestral Colour.' British Journal of Aesthetics, 48, 363-375.

2008. 'True Interpretations,' In Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Literature: An Analytic Approach, D. Davies & C. Matheson (eds.), (Plymouth: Broadview), 211-216.

2008. 'Così's Canon Quartet.' In G. Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 245-258.

2008. 'The Origins of Balinese Legong,' Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkund (BKI), 164 (2/3), 194-211.

2008. 'Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges,' Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (British Society of Aesthetics), 5 (1)

2008. Review: Peter Kivy, Introduction to a Philosophy of Music, (Oxford: Clarendon Press), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 76, 222-224.