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Noël Carroll
Noël Carroll is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is known as one of the most important contemporary figures in Philosophy of Art.
Noël Carroll is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is known as one of the most important contemporary figures in Philosophy of Art. Noël is one of the few individuals in the world who has PhDs in both Cinema Studies and Philosophy.
In 2002, Noël received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research into dance and was named as ‘the sixth most influential philosopher of art since 1945’ by the Philosophical Gourmet Report.
Noël Carroll is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is known as one of the most important contemporary figures in Philosophy of Art. Noël is one of the few individuals in the world who has PhDs in both Cinema Studies and Philosophy.
In 2002, Noël received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research into dance and was named as ‘the sixth most influential philosopher of art since 1945’ by the Philosophical Gourmet Report.
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Minds, Machines and Magic
Is human creativity no more than mechanics?
Life Story
Making sense of the self
Story Time
Is objective news an illusion?
The Art of Life
Are biographies fiction?
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Exploring pain and pleasure
The Art of Imagination
Is art the ultimate arbiter of truth?
The Key to Creativity
Do restrictions breed inventiveness?
Imagining Reality
Can we create fantasy worlds?
Authenticity, Reality and Being
What is it to be real?
At the World's Edge
Fantasy, fiction, and desire
The Doubleness of Oscar Wilde
What's behind the gentlemanly facade?
The King's Will
Mystery and death in the House of Tudor
Strange New Worlds
A new vision of reality
A Spider in the Eye
Authenticity is a Con
The problem with 'truthful' politics
Canon Under Fire
Mirror, Mirror
Can plastic surgery make you more authentic?
Conditions for Creativity
Does censorship create great art?
Myths for Modernity
Fictions and fantasies in an age of reason
The Old Gods: England's Mythic Past
How to Rediscover Your Creativity
Why blue sky thinking is essential
Dark Satanic Mills
Do our landscapes determine our selves?
Taking Humour Seriously
Is humour an essential form of subversion?
Imagining the Truth
Can fantasy reveal reality?
Killer Stories
Why do we fall for narratives?
The Arc of Life: Michael Morpurgo
How reading cultivates empathy
In the Moment
The Fantasy of Technology
Is technology the driver of progress?
The Great Escape
Is fantasy fiction a dangerous crutch?
Visions of Apocalypse
Is the end always nigh?
A Field Guide to Reality
Overcoming the tyranny of realism in literature
Death of the Hero
Icons for a new era
Verses for Eternity
The Mirror to Nature
The wonder of the wild vs. our imagination
Writing the End Times
Tales of an Extravagant Stranger
Austen vs Woolf
The female fantasy
Poetry and the Transmission of Errors
The poetical errors that matter
Uncharted Territory
Lust, Love and the Late Madame Picasso
Seduction, suicide and a courtcase. Godfrey Barker sheds light on Picasso’s final years.
Irony, Truth and Reality
Confronting the limits of sincerity
Our Hopeless Future & Other Comedy
Shooting Truth
The Mara Crossing
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Does Shakespeare’s mystery and magic resonate in a rational age?
Rhyme and Punishment
Art for prisons
Dangerous Virtues
When enticing stories sell shady truths
Order out of Chaos
Lost in Stories
Can we ever escape our narratives?
Poetry Live
With Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Muldoon
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Beauty is not just subjective
It's time to let James Bond die
The aesthetics of binge-watching
Life is not a squid game
Marx and Nietzsche: how art can save us
Computer creativity is a matter of agency
Science fiction is philosophy
History, fiction and truth
Art doesn't make us better humans
Making sense of the world with music
Unlocking the potential of nature's beauty
Banksy, Beauty and Bananas
Life, Death, and Pacman
Art and the reality of war
Human, all too human: why we need antiheroes
Paula Rego: uncovering hidden truths
When the Machine Stops
Creativity's dance with death
The crisis of creativity
Jean-Luc Godard: philosophy and film
The artist is dead, AI killed them
The curious case of the upside down Mondrian
Nietzsche, Dune and the power of religion
Daft Punk and Metaphysics
Distraction, flow and the creative mind
How colour dictates the way we think
Daydreaming of Apocalypse
Beauty has always been gender-fluid
How arts can save your life
Brian Eno: creativity and the future