The University of Sheffield
Department of Philosophy

Robert Hopkins: Selected Publications

Picture perception and pictorial representation

'Factive Pictorial Experience: What's Really Special about Photographs?'
Nous
Forthcoming 2012. Available online in Early View.

Perspective, Convention and Compromise
Hecht, Atherton & Schwarz (eds), Looking Into Pictures
MIT Press 2003, pp.145-165

'What Makes Representational Painting Truly Visual?
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
vol.77, (2003), pp.149-167

'Pictures, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science'
The Monist
vol.86, (2003) pp.653-675

Picture, Image & Experience
Cambridge University Press
1998

'El Greco's Eyesight: Interpreting Pictures and the Psychology of Vision'
Philosophical Quarterly
47 (1997), pp. 441-458

'Explaining Depiction'
Philosophical Review
vol.104 (1995) pp. 425-455

'Resemblance and Misrepresentation'
Mind
vol.103 (1994), pp. 421-438


Other Philosophy of Mind

'What Perky Did Not Show' Forthcoming in Analysis, July 2012

'Re-imagining, re-viewing and re-touching'
In F.Mcpherson ed. 'The senses: classic and contemporary philosophical perspectives'
Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011

'Imagination and Affective Response'
In Jon Webber ed. 'Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology & Existentialism'
Routledge 2010 pp.100-117

'Molyneux's Question'
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
35:3 (2005) pp.441-464

'Thomas Reid on Molyneux's Question'
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
vol.86 (2005) pp.340-364

'Visualizing'
ch.7 of 'Picture, Image and Experience'
CUP 1998


General Aesthetics and Theory of Value

'How to be a pessimist about aesthetic testimony'
Journal of Philosophy
108:3 (2011) pp.1-20

A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd edition
Blackwell 2009
Edited with Stephen Davies, David Cooper, Bob Stecker and Kathleen Higgins

'What is wrong with moral testimony?'
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
LXXIV:3 (2007) pp.1-24

Critical Reasoning and Critical Perception
Lopes & Kieran (eds) Knowing Art
Springer 2006 pp.137-153

'Aesthetics, Experience, and Discrimination'
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
63:2 (2005) pp.119-133

'Kant, Quasi-Realism & the Autonomy of Aesthetic Judgement'
European Journal of Philosophy
9:2 (2001) pp. 166-189

Beauty and Testimony
O'Hear (ed), Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful
CUP 2000 pp.209-236


Aesthetics of the Visual Arts

'Moving because pictures?'
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
XXXIV “Film and Emotions", 2010 pp.200-218

'Sculpture and Perspective'
British Journal of Aesthetics
50:4 (2010) pp.343-56

'Inflected Pictorial Experience: Its Treatment and Significance'
C.Abell & K.Bantinaki (ed.s) Philosophical Perspectives on Picturing
OUP 2010 pp.151-180

'Reasons for looking: Lopes on the value of pictures'
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
77:2 (2008) pp.563-573

'What do we see in film?'
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
66:2 (2008) pp.149-159

Speaking Through Silence: Conceptual Art and Conversational Implicature
P.Goldie & E.Schellekens (eds) Philosophy & Conceptual Art
OUP 2007 pp.51-68

'Painting, History and Experience'
Philosophical Studies
127:1 (2006) pp.19-35

'Painting, Sculpture, Sight and Touch'
British Journal of Aesthetics
44:2 (2004) pp.149-166

Sculpture and Space
Lopes & Kieran (eds), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts
Routledge 2003, pp.272-290

The Spectator in the Picture
Van Gerwen (ed), Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
CUP 2001 (pp. 215-231)

'Pictures and Beauty'
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
vol. 97, (1997), pp. 177-194


Work in Progress

'Imagination and Observation'

'Imagining the Past: On the Nature of Episodic Memory'

'Learning from Pictures'

'The Appearance of Colour'

'Pictorial Presence'