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I have made a few of my articles available for download below.

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1. Articles marked FINAL are in published form and are suitable for citation.
2. Those marked EARLY DRAFT are in pre-copy edited form and have either been published or are forthcoming.  These version are not suitable for citation.
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Smuts_03_Haunting_DT157-172_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Haunting the House from Within: Disbelief Mitigation and Spatial Experience", Reprinted in Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror. Ed. Steven Jay Schneider and Daniel Shaw (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003). EARLY DRAFT    184k v. 3 Feb 20, 2009 7:13 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_04_HelplessSpectators_AndFrome_TT.pdf
View Download		 Jonathan Frome and Aaron Smuts, "Helpless Spectators: Generating Suspense in Videogames and Film," TEXT Technology 1 (2004): 13-34. FINAL    69k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:28 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_05_AnestheticExperience_PhilLit.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Anesthetic Experience," Philosophy and Literature 29.1 (2005): 97-113.   81k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:28 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_05_AreVideoGamesArt
View		 Aaron Smuts, "Are Video Games Art?" Contemporary Aesthetics 3 (2005). FINAL   May 21, 2009 10:28 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_05_Savage_Love_version3_ACJ_09062004_EARLYDRAFT.pdf
View Download		 Savage Love: Violence in Service of Romance in the Films of Dante Lam. Asian Cinema Journal 16.1 (2005): 286-305. EARLY DRAFT   120k v. 1 Oct 4, 2009 12:24 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_06_Humor_IEP
View		 Aaron Smuts, "Humor", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Steven Jay Schneider, (2006).  FINAL  Aug 25, 2008 1:43 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_06_Perkins_Credibility_FilmAndPhil_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "V. F. Perkins' Functional Credibility and the Problem of Imaginative Resistance," Film and Philosophy 10 (2006): 85-99. DRAFT   146k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:28 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_07_JokeIsTheThing_FilmPhil_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Joke is the Thing: 'In the Company of Men' and the Ethics of Humor," Film and Philosophy 11 (2007): 49-66. EARLY DRAFT    90k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_07_ParadoxPainfulArt_JAE41.3.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Paradox of Painful Art," Journal of Aesthetic Education 41.3 (2007): 59-77. FINAL   238k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_DesireFrustration_JAAC.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Desire-Frustration Theory of Suspense," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66.3 (2008): 281-291.  FINAL   469k v. 4 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_Horror_RCPF_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, “Horror”, Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, eds. Carl Plantinga and Paisley Livingston (Routledge, 2008).  EARLY DRAFT   150k v. 3 Feb 20, 2009 7:13 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_MoralFlawsAmusement_APQ_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Do Moral Flaws Enhance Amusement?" American Philosophical Quarterly 46.2 (2009): 151-163.  EARLY DRAFT    104k v. 5 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_TheLittlePeople_TZP_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "'The Little People': Power and the Worshipable," The Twilight Zone and Philosophy, eds. Lester Hunt and Noël Carroll (Blackwell, 2008).  EARLY DRAFT    91k v. 4 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_WhatIsInteractivity_JAE_EarlyDraft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "What is Interactivity," Journal of Aesthetic Education (2009). EARLY DRAFT    127k v. 5 May 21, 2009 10:27 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_AristocratsAndInfernoBullets_20090923_unmasked.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Aristocrats and Inferno Bullets: Two Controversial Theses about Humor and Morality." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   118k v. 1 Sep 23, 2009 11:12 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_ArtAndNegativeAffect_PhilCompass_final.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Art and Negative Affect," Philosophy Compass 4.1 (2009): 39-55. FINAL   129k v. 2 May 21, 2009 10:30 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_FilmAsPhilosophy_JAAC_EarlyDraft.pdf
View Download		 "Film as Philosophy: In Defense of the Bold Thesis" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2009). EARLY DRAFT    112k v. 3 Feb 19, 2009 6:54 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_ImmortalityAndSignificance_20091003_unmasked.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Immortality and Significance". UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   89k v. 1 Oct 4, 2009 11:43 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_LessGoodButNotBad_20090724.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Less Good but not Bad: In Defense of Epicureanism about the Badness of Death." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT  153k v. 1 Sep 5, 2009 11:50 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_MoralFlawsAndAestheticProperties_version3_20081208.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Grounding Moralism: Moral Flaws and Aesthetic Properties" Journal of Aesthetic Education (forthcoming 2010). EARLY DRAFT    127k v. 4 May 21, 2009 10:30 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_PickmansModel_20090923_unmasked.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Pickman's Model: Horror and the Objective Purport of Photographs". UNPUBLISHED DRAFT  177k v. 1 Sep 23, 2009 11:01 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_StoryIdentity_JAAC.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Story Identity and Story Type", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2009): 5-13. FINAL   490k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:22 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_TheFeelsGoodTheoryOfPleasure_20090605_unmasked.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Feels Good Theory of Pleasure" Philosophical Studies (forthcoming). EARLY DRAFT    146k v. 2 Jul 14, 2009 10:16 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_TheGhostIsTheThing_20090627.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Ghost is the Thing: Can Reactions to Fiction Reveal Belief?" UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   132k v. 1 Jun 28, 2009 2:21 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_ThePowerToMakeOthersWorship_version2_20090527.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Power to Make Others Worship." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT  78k v. 1 May 27, 2009 1:16 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_WingsOfDesire_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Wings of Desire: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality", Film and Philosophy 13 (2009): 137-151. EARLY DRAFT    94k v. 3 May 21, 2009 10:22 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_EthicsOfHumor_ETMP_draft.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "The Ethics of Humor: Can Your Sense of Humor be Wrong?" Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (forthcoming 2010). EARLY DRAFT  113k v. 2 May 21, 2009 10:30 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_RubberRing_20090923_EARLYDRAFT.pdf
View Download		 Aaron Smuts, "Rubber Ring: Why do We Listen to Sad Songs?" in: Narrative, Emotion, and Insight, eds. John Gibson and Noël Carroll (Penn State UP, 2010, forthcoming).  124k v. 1 Sep 23, 2009 11:49 AM Aaron Smuts