Professor of Philosophy at The Open University and Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He is author of Art and Emotion (OUP, 1998), Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013); Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014); and Empathy (Polity, 2017). He edits, with Paloma Atencia-Linares, The British Journal of Aesthetics.