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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

Based on a true story
Is an objective story of the past possible?

How to learn from history
Learning the lessons from our past
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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