Philosophy and museums : essays in the philosophy of museums / edited by Victoria S. Harrison, Anna Bergqvist and Gary Kemp.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy. Annual Conference (35th : 2013 : University of Glasgow) [Browse]
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English
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  • Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
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x, 385 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm.

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    Summary note
    Contributions from the conference Philosophy and Museums sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and held at the University of Glasgow in 2013.
    Notes
    "The fifteen essays in this volume, each exploring a different furrow of the rich field of philosophy of museums, were originally presented at a conference held at the University of Glasgow in the summer of 2013 on 'Philosophy of Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Ontology'"--Page 11.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-385).
    Contents
    • Museums and their paradoxes / Mark O'Neill
    • The open museum and its enemies: an essay in the philosophy of museums / Charles Taliaferro
    • The museum of big ideas / Ivan Gaskell
    • Museums and the nostalgic self / Michael P. Levine
    • 'A sudden surprise of the soul': wonder in museums and early modern philosophy / Beth Lord
    • Context and experiencing the sacred / David Brown
    • Are Holocaust museums unique? / Paul Morrow
    • Museums, ethics and truth: why museums' collecting policies must face up to the problem of testimony / Philip Tonner
    • The ethics of trusteeship and the biography of objects / Andreas Pantazatos
    • People and things: questions museums make us ask and answer / Alda Rodrigues
    • What do we see in museums? / Graham Oddie
    • An honest display of fakery: replicas and the role of museums / Constantine Sandis
    • Word and object: museums and the matter of meaning / Garry L. Hagberg
    • Framing effects in museum narratives: objectivity in interpretation revisited / Anna Bergqvist
    • The participatory art museum: approached from a philosophical perspective / Sarah Hegenbart.
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    Philosophy and museums : essays on the philosophy of museums
    ISBN
    • 9781107545670 ((paperback))
    • 1107545676 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016462769
    OCLC
    962479285
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