Fictional Characters, Real Problems
The Search for Ethical Content in Literature
Edited by Garry L. Hagberg
Author Information
Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, NY
Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and has in recent years also been Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness. He is editor of Art and Ethical Criticism, co-editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature.
Contributors:
Humberto Brito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Jules Brody, Harvard University
Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago
Noel Carroll, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Richard Dawson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College
Tony Gash, University of East Anglia
Alan H. Goldman, College of William & Mary
Mitchell S. Green, University of Connecticut
Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College
Nora Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki
Eileen John, University of Warwick
Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford
Robert B. Pierce, Oberlin College, Ohio
Jonathan Strauss, Miami University, Ohio
Valerie Wainwright, University of Florence
J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College