Berys Gaut Explained

Berys Gaut is an author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.^[1] He writes on aesthetics, creativity, philosophy of film, and ethics.^[2] He was president of the British Society of Aesthetics until 2018.^[3]

Works

Gaut has written two monographs, numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed many chapters to edited volumes and edited several books. In Art, Emotion and Ethics (2007) he explores the connection between aesthetics and ethics.^[4] In A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (2010) many of his previously published papers on cinema are collected.^[5] He has edited several books including The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, together with Dominic McIver Lopes (first edition 2001), The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, together with Paisley Livingston (2003) and Creativity and Philosophy, together with Matthew Kieran (2018). He has co-authored Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide (2011) with primary school teacher Morag Gaut.^[6]

Monographs

• Art, Emotion and Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• A Philosophy of Cinematic Art, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Edited books

• Ethics and Practical Reason, co-edited with Garrett Cullity, Oxford University Press,1997.
• The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, co-edited with Dominic McIver Lopes, Routledge, 2001. Second edition, 2005. Third edition, 2013.
• The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, co-edited with Paisley Livingston, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Creativity and Philosophy, co-edited with Matthew Kieran, Routledge, 2018.

Most recent articles

• "The Philosophy of Creativity", Philosophy Compass 5 (12), 2010, pp. 1034–46.
• "Film and Language" in Patrick Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 310–11.
• "Telling Stories: Narration, Emotion, and Insight in Memento" in Noel Carroll and John Gibson (eds), Narrative, Emotion, and Insight, Penn State University Press, 2011, pp. 23–44.
• "A Philosophy of Cinematic Art--The Big Picture" and "Replies to Ponech, Curran, and Allen", British Journal of Aesthetics, 52 (2), 2012, pp. 183–6 and 201-8.
• "Creativity and Rationality", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 70 (3) 2012, pp. 259–70.
• "Teaching Philosophy to Young Children" in Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak and Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.), Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers, Routledge, 2013, pp. 132–40; co-authored with Morag Gaut.
• "Mixed Motivations: Creativity as a Virtue", Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 75, 2014, pp. 183–202.
• "Educating for Creativity" in Elliot Samuel Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman (eds.), The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 265–87.
• "Creativity", "The Intentional Fallacy", "Fiction and Non-fiction", "Depiction" and "Consequentialism", entries in Robert Audi (ed)., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• "Elegy in L.A.: Blade Runner, Empathy and Death" in Amy Coplan and David Davies (eds.), Blade Runner, Routledge, 2015, pp. 31–45.
• "Cinematic Art and Technology" in Katherine Thomson-Jones (ed.), Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Film, Routledge, 2016, pp. 17–35.
• "The Value of Creativity" in Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (eds.), Creativity and Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.
• "Philosophising about Creativity", co-authored with Matthew Kieran, in Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran (eds.), Creativity and Philosophy, Routledge, 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Berys Gaut. University of St Andrews. 19 April 2019. 24 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161124185701/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=100. dead.
2. Web site: Berys Gaut (University of St. Andrews) - PhilPeople. philpeople.org. en. 2019-04-20.
3. Web site: Berys Gaut. British Society of Aesthetics. 19 April 2019.
4. Jacobson. Daniel. 2008. Review: Art, Emotion and Ethics. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
5. Thomson-Jones. Katherine. 2011. Review: A Philosophy of Cinematic Art – Berys Gaut. The Philosophical Quarterly. 61. 445–446. 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.695_15.x.
6. Book: Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide. Gaut. Berys. Gaut. Morag. 2013-03-01. Routledge. 9781136736056. en.