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Smuts_03_Haunting_DT157-172_draft.pdf
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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. 5 Feb 20, 2009 7:13 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_04_HelplessSpectators_AndFrome_TT.pdf
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Jonathan Frome and Aaron Smuts, "Helpless Spectators: Generating Suspense in Videogames and Film," TEXT Technology 1 (2004): 13-34. FINAL    69k v. 5 May 21, 2009 10:28 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_05_AnestheticExperience_PhilLit.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Anesthetic Experience," Philosophy and Literature 29.1 (2005): 97-113.  FINAL  81k v. 6 Dec 14, 2009 9:05 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_05_AreVideoGamesArt
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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
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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. 3 Oct 4, 2009 12:24 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_06_Humor_IEP
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Aaron Smuts, "Humor", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Steven Jay Schneider, (2006).  FINAL  Aug 25, 2008 1:43 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_06_Perkins_FilmPhil_FINAL.PDF
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Aaron Smuts, "V. F. Perkins' Functional Credibility and the Problem of Imaginative Resistance," Film and Philosophy 10 (2006): 85-99. FINAL    3374k v. 5 May 17, 2011 6:25 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_07_ParadoxPainfulArt_JAE41.3.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Paradox of Painful Art," Journal of Aesthetic Education 41.3 (2007): 59-77. FINAL   238k v. 5 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_07_TheJokeIsTheThing_FAP_final.PDF
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Aaron Smuts, "The Joke is the Thing: 'In the Company of Men&' and the Ethics of Humor", Film and Philosophy 11 (2007): 49-66. FINAL  1223k v. 2 Nov 20, 2011 12:55 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_DesireFrustration_JAAC.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Desire-Frustration Theory of Suspense," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66.3 (2008): 281-291.  FINAL   469k v. 6 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_Horror_RCPF_draft.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, “Horror”, Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, eds. Carl Plantinga and Paisley Livingston (Routledge, 2008).  EARLY DRAFT   150k v. 5 Feb 20, 2009 7:13 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_08_TheLittlePeople_TZP_draft.pdf
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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. 6 May 21, 2009 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_ArtAndNegativeAffect_PhilCompass_final.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Art and Negative Affect," Philosophy Compass 4.1 (2009): 39-55. FINAL   129k v. 4 May 21, 2009 10:30 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_DoMoralFlawsEnhanceAmusement_APQ_final.PDF
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Aaron Smuts, "Do Moral Flaws Enhance Amusement?" American Philosophical Quarterly 46.2 (2009): 151-163. FINAL   1357k v. 3 Oct 29, 2010 7:25 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_FilmAsPhilosophy_JAAC_final.pdf
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"Film as Philosophy: In Defense of a Bold Thesis" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67.4 (2009): 409-420. FINAL  513k v. 3 Dec 14, 2009 9:16 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_MoralFlawsAndAestheticProperties_version3_20091129.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Grounding Moralism: Moral Flaws and Aesthetic Properties" Journal of Aesthetic Education (forthcoming 2010). EARLY DRAFT   128k v. 3 Dec 14, 2009 9:04 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_StoryIdentity_JAAC.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Story Identity and Story Type", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2009): 5-13. FINAL   490k v. 5 May 21, 2009 10:22 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_WhatIsInteractivity_JAE.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "What is Interactivity", Journal of Aesthetic Education Journal of Aesthetic Education 49.4 (2009): 53-74. FINAL   113k v. 2 Dec 20, 2011 7:30 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_09_WingsOfDesire_FAP_final.PDF
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Aaron Smuts, "Wings of Desire: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality", Film and Philosophy 13 (2009): 137-150. FINAL    1206k v. 2 Nov 20, 2011 12:39 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_AgainstCognitiveImmoralism_version4_20100131.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Against Cognitive Immoralism." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   83k v. 1 Dec 20, 2011 7:44 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_EthicsOfHumor_ETMP_FINAL.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Ethics of Humor: Can Your Sense of Humor be Wrong?" Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13.3 (2010): 333-47. FINAL  179k v. 3 Jun 14, 2010 9:33 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_FeelsGoodTheoryOfPleasure_PhilStudies_FINAL.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Feels Good Theory of Pleasure" Philosophical Studies (2011). FINAL   233k v. 4 Apr 22, 2012 4:09 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_GhostIsTheThing_MWS_FINAL.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Ghost is the Thing: Can Reactions to Fiction Reveal Belief?" Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2010). FINAL   185k v. 4 Apr 22, 2012 4:09 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_ImmortalityAndSignificance_PhilLit_PREPUB.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Immortality and Significance." Philosophy and Literature (2011). EARLY DRAFT   147k v. 3 Apr 22, 2012 4:10 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_10_PickmansModel_version1_20100228_unmasked.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Pickman's Model: Horror and the Objective Purport of Photographs", Revue Internationale de Philosophie (forthcoming). EARLY DRAFT   179k v. 3 Feb 28, 2010 8:41 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_11_LessGoodButNotBad_version6_20110524_DRAFT.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Less Good but not Bad: In Defense of Epicureanism about Death." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   189k v. 4 May 24, 2011 4:27 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_11_PopularArt_version2_20100208_EARLYDRAFT.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Popular Art". Forthcoming in the Continuum Companion to The Philosophy of Art.  80k v. 4 Sep 18, 2011 10:29 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_11_SadSongs_FINAL.PDF
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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). FINAL  6639k v. 2 Nov 5, 2011 1:18 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_11_SalaciousAndSatirical_version1_20111107_unmasked.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Salacious and the Satirical: In Defense of Symmetric Comic Moralism." EARLY DRAFT  138k v. 2 Apr 22, 2012 1:54 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_11_ThePowerToMakeOthersWorship_version3_20110406.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Power to Make Others Worship." Religious Studies (1012, forthcoming). EARLY DRAFT   114k v. 5 May 16, 2011 7:25 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_ALifeWorthLiving_version1_20120130.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "A Life Worth Living." ROUGH DRAFT    162k v. 1 Jan 30, 2012 2:55 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_Cinematic_v3_20120422.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Cinematic." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT    125k v. 2 Apr 22, 2012 1:54 PM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_InDefenseOfTheNoReasonsView_v4_20120526.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "In Defense of the No-Reasons View of Love." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT  205k v. 2 Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_LoveAndFreeWill_v5_20120427.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "Love and Free Will." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT.  183k v. 2 Apr 27, 2012 9:56 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_TheGoodCauseAccount_version3_20120218.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "The Good Cause Account of the Meaning of Life" UNPUBLISHED DRAFT   171k v. 3 Feb 18, 2012 11:23 AM Aaron Smuts
Smuts_12_ToBeOrNeverToHaveBeen_version5_20120212.pdf
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Aaron Smuts, "To Be or Never to Have Been: Anti-Natalism and a Life Worth Living." UNPUBLISHED DRAFT.   150k v. 2 Feb 12, 2012 7:34 AM Aaron Smuts