Robert Kraut
Professor
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Columbus, OH
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Areas of Expertise
- Metaphysics
- Aesthetic Theory
- Philosophy of Language
Education
- M.A., Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
- B.A. Brooklyn College
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Publications (selected):
- Artworld Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); paperback edition 2010.
- "Meaning as Use, Language as Behavior," forthcoming in Teorema: Revista Internacional de Filosofía.
- "Pragmatism, Ontology, Social Justice," forthcoming in Robert Lane (ed.), Pragmatism Revisited (Cambridge University Press).
- "Pragmatism and the Ontology of Art," in J. Gert (ed.), Neopragmatism: Interventions in First-order Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2023).
- "Artworld Practice, Aesthetic Properties, Pragmatist Strategies," in S. Aikin and R. Talisse (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism (2022).
- "Rudolf Carnap: Pragmatist and Expressivist about Ontology," in R. Bliss and J. Miller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (2020).
- "Norm and Object," in J. O'Shea (ed.), Sellars and his Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2016).
- "Pragmatism Without Idealism" (with Kevin Scharp), in C. Daly (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
- "Ontology: Music and Art," The Monist 95 (October 2012): 684-710.
- “The Metaphysics of Artistic Expression: a Case Study in Projectivism,” in R. Johnson and M. Smith (eds.), Passions and Projections: Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn (Oxford University Press, 2015).
- "Three Carnaps on Ontology," in Blatti and Lapointe (eds.), Ontology After Carnap (Oxford University Press, 2016).
- "Universals, Metaphysical Explanations, and Pragmatism," Journal of Philosophy CVII (November 2010): 590-609.
- "Why Does Jazz Matter to Aesthetic Theory?," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63:1 (Winter 2005): 3-15.
- "Varieties of Pragmatism," Mind 99 (April 1990): 157-183; reprinted in Alan Malachowski(ed.), Richard Rorty (Sage Publications, 2002).
- "Metaphysical Explanation and the Philosophy of Mathematics," Philosophia Mathematica (3) Vol. 9 (June 2001): 154-183.
- "Robust Deflationism," Philosophical Review 102:2 (April 1993): 247-263.
- "Love De Re," Midwest Studies in Philosophy Volume X (University of Minnesota Press, 1986): 413-430.
- "Feelings in Context," Journal of Philosophy LXXXIII (November 1986): 642-53.
- "Sensory States and Sensory Objects," NOUS 16 (1982): 277-93.