In this issue’ s invited paper, Professor Stephen Davies, remembering Bob Solomon, discusses the humour of the Three Stooges and suggests an explanation for the comedic power of the repeated catchphrase.
This issue contains three student papers;
Iné s de Asis discusses Cohen and Meskin’ s arguments about the epistemic potential of photographs and argues that they do not succeed in disqualifying photographs in principle from counting as prostheses for seeing.
Yvan Té treault seeks to clarify the notion of mechanical recording in the context of the debate as to whether film can be art, and concludes, contra David Davies and Noel Carroll, that Arnheim’ s defense of film as art rests on a consistent notion of mechanical recording.
Thomas Wolstenholme takes on Lamarque & Olsen’ s “ no-truth” theory of literature and the related notion of the fictive stance, arguing that fiction not only contains truth-apt claims, but that the truth-value of such claims is often relevant to fiction qua fiction.
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