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Professor Derek Matravers
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Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. Before joining the OU, he was a research fellow at Darwin College Cambridge. He is the author of Art and Emotion, (OUP: 1998), Introducing Philosophy of Art In Eight Case Studies (Routledge: 2012), Fiction and Narrative (OUP: 2014), and Empathy (Polity: 2017). He has also published on aesthetics, ethics, mind, and politics.
Professor Derek Matravers (2020) The Reconstruction of Damaged or Destroyed Heritage, Routledge
Professor Derek Matravers (2019) [Book Review] Things: In Touch with the Past by Carolyn Korsmeyer (New York: Oxford University Press), In The Philosophical Quarterly, Oxford University Press (OUP)
Helen Frowe and Professor Derek Matravers (2019) Conflict and Cultural heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection 3, J. Paul Getty Trust Occasional Papers in Cultural Heritage Policy, No.3, Getty Publications
Professor Derek Matravers (2018-10-22) The History Plays: Fiction or Non-Fiction?, Routledge
Professor Derek Matravers (2018-10-22) What is the Object of an Empathetic Emotion?, Routledge
Professor Derek Matravers (2018-08-01) Visualizing and Visualizing Representations, In Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 3(76)
Professor Derek Matravers (2018-01-05) Recent philosophy and the fiction/non-fiction distinction, In Collection and Curation, Emerald
Professor Derek Matravers (2017-01-20) Empathy, Polity Press
Professor Derek Matravers (2017) Empathy in the Aesthetic Tradition, Routledge
Professor Derek Matravers (2016-11-24) Life and Narrative, Oxford University Press
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