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David Davies
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Research
Latest funding
- $35,658
Fiction, Imagining, and Reality: a Defense of a Fictive Utterance Account of Fictionality
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $45,333
Artistic value(s) and the value of art: a non-aestheticist account of artistic value
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $55,856
How art works: rethinking the distinction between artworks and other artefacts
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
Fiction, Imagining, and Reality: a Defense of a Fictive Utterance Account of Fictionality
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: Fictional narrative; fictional work; fictive utterance; imagining; Paul Grice; fidelity constraint; thought experiments.
Artistic value(s) and the value of art: a non-aestheticist account of artistic value
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: artistic value; value of art; aestheticism; artistic experience; artistic achievement
How art works: rethinking the distinction between artworks and other artefacts
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: nature of art; artistic content; artistic regard; artistic appreciation; goodman on symptoms of the aesthetic; aestheticism; intended function; tribal artefacts; religious art; political art; pornographic art
The ontology of multiple artworks: a performance-theoretic approach
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: ontology of art; multiple artworks; performance theory; type/token theory; music; cinema; photography
How making matters: provenance and the epistemology, ontology, and axiology of art
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: philosophy of art; artistic making; provenance; appreciation; artistic value; ontology of art; contextualism; performance
Normativity, conceptual content, and the duality of experience
Principal investigators: Davies, David A.
Keywords: conceptual content; normativity; perceptual experience; inferentialism
A philosophical analysis of artworks as actions
Principal investigators: Davies, David
Keywords: Artwork; action; token; ontology; aesthetic; appreciation; institutional; interpretation; symbol; definition
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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