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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)
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
x, 385 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
N410 .P45 2016
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Museums
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Philosophy
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Sponsoring body
Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Host institution
University of Glasgow
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Editor
Harrison, Victoria S.
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Bergqvist, Anna
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Kemp, Gary, 1960 October 15-
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Series
Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 79.
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Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 1358-2461 ; 79
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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.
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"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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