Background
Lamarque, Peter Vaudreuil was born on May 21, 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. Arrived in United Kingdom, 1950. Son of Walter Geoffrey and Patricia Vivienne (Aikman) Lamarque.
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This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is important for the truths that it imparts, the authors also reject attempts to cut literature off altogether from real human concerns. Their detailed account of fictionality, mimesis, and cognitive value, founded on the methods of analytical philosophy, restores to literature its distinctive status among cultural practices. The authors also explore metaphysical and skeptical views, prevalent in modern thought, according to which the world Ptself is a kind of fiction, and truth no more than a social construct. They identify different conceptions of fiction in science, logic, epistemology, and make-believe, and thereby challenge the idea that discourse per se is fictional and that different modes of discourse are at root indistinguishable. They offer rigorous analyses of the roles of narrative, imagination, metaphor, and "making" in human thought processes. Both in their methods and in their conclusions, Lamarque and Olsen aim to restore rigor and clarity to debates about the values of literature, and to provide new, philosophically sound foundations for a genuine change of direction in literary theorizing.
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1983, hardcover edition, Aberdeen University Press, Scotland, 111 pages. Includes a 16-page introduction, with 5 extended essays.
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Lamarque, Peter Vaudreuil was born on May 21, 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. Arrived in United Kingdom, 1950. Son of Walter Geoffrey and Patricia Vivienne (Aikman) Lamarque.
Lamarque was educated at Marlborough College and received a Bachelor degree in English and Philosophy from the University of East Anglia. He then completed a Bachelor of Philosophy in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he worked under the supervision of L. Jonathan Cohen.
Since 2000 he has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New York He is known primarily for his work in philosophy of literature and on the role of emotions in fiction. From 1972 to 1995 Lamarque taught in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, and from 1995 to 2000 he held the Ferens Chair in Philosophy at the University of Hull.
In 2000, he moved to the University of York to take up his current position.
He has held visiting positions in several universities around the world, including Cornell University (United States of America) and the Australian National University (Australia). He was the first proponent of an approach to the paradox of fiction usually referred to as "thought theory".
He was editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics from 1995 to 2008. In 2009 he was chosen to give the first ever Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture/American Statistical Association Wollheim Memorial Lecture at the American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting.
"How Can We Fear and Pity Fictions?", British Journal of Aesthetics 21(4):291-304, 1981 "The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy", British Journal of Aesthetics 30(4):319-331, 1990 "On Not Expecting Too Much from Narrative", Mind and Language 19(4):393-408, 2004 "The Elusiveness of Poetic Meaning", Ratio 22(4):398-420, 2009 "The Uselessness of Art", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68(3):205-214, 2010 "Wittgenstein, Literature, and the Idea of a Practice", British Journal of Aesthetics 50(4):375-388, 2010.
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(1983, hardcover edition, Aberdeen University Press, Scotl...)
Lamarque has published extensively on various philosophical topics, mostly in the area of analytic philosophy of art
Member British Society Aesthetics (executive committee member since 1995), American Society for Aesthetics, Aristotelian Society, Mind Association (research fellow 2000), Scots Philosophical Club (secretary, treasurer 1977-1989).
Married Mary Catherine Uhl, July 7, 1979. Children: Toby, Hugh.