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Dr. Rafael De Clercq
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual Studies
Lingnan University

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Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

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Academic & Professional Qualifications

Candidate, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (1995).

Licentiate, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (1997).

Affiliate PhD Student, University College London, Department of Philosophy (2000).

PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (2002).

Academic Visitor, Oxford University, Department of Philosophy (2002, Fall).

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Areas of Interest

Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy.

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Working Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University (2008-Present).

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University (2009-Present).

Guest Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University (2005).

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research -Flanders (2002-2008).

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Articles

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming) 'Locke's Principle is an Applicable Criterion of Identity', Nous.

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming) 'Reflections on a Sofa-Bed: Functional Beauty and Looking Fit', Journal of Aesthetic Education.

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming) 'A Simple Solution to the Paradox of Negative Emotion', in Pierre Destree & Jerrold Levinson (eds.) The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art: Suffering Art Gladly. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming) 'On some putative graph-theoretic counterexamples to the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles', Synthese.

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming, in translation) 'Empathy Theories of the Aesthetic Experience', Research Journal of the Iranian Academy of Arts.

De Clercq, Rafael, (Forthcoming) 'Architecture', in Anna Christina Ribeiro (ed.) The Continuum Companion to Aesthetics. London: Continuum

De Clercq, Rafael, (2011) 'Modern Architecture and the Concept of Harmony', British Journal of Aesthetics 51:1, pp. 69-79.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2011) 'Aesthetic Properties', in Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.) Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. London: Routledge.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2009) 'Scruton on Rightness of Proportion in Architecture', British Journal of Aesthetics 49:4, pp. 405-414.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2009) 'The Aesthetic Creation Theory of Art', Sztuka i Filosofia 35, pp ??.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2008c) 'Aesthetic Ideals', in Kathleen Stock & Katherine Thomson-Jones (eds.) New Waves in Aesthetics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2008b) 'The Structure of Aesthetic Properties', Philosophy Compass Vol. 3 (July). Blackwell Online.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2008a) 'Lopes on the Ontology of Japanese Shrines', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. With a reply from Dominic McIver Lopes in the same issue (discussion section).

De Clercq, Rafael, (2007b) 'Melody and Metaphorical Movement', British Journal of Aesthetics 47:2, pp. 156-168.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2007a) 'A Note on the Aesthetics of Mirror Reversal', Philosophical Studies 132:3, pp. 553-563.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2006) 'Presentism and the Problem of Cross-Time Relations', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72:2, pp. 386-402. Reprinted in Ernâni Magalhães and L. Nathan Oaklander, eds. (2010) Presentism: Essential Readings. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2005d, with Leon Horsten) 'Closer', Synthese 146:3, pp.371-393.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2005c) 'The Aesthetic Peculiarity of Multifunctional Artefacts', British Journal of Aesthetics 45:4, pp. 412-425.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2005b) 'A criterion of diachronic identity based on Locke's Principle', Metaphysica 6:1, pp. 23-38.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2005a) 'Aesthetic Terms, Metaphor and the Nature of Aesthetic Properties', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63:1, pp. 27-32.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2004b, with Leon Horsten) 'Perceptual indiscriminability: in defence of Wright's proof', The Philosophical Quarterly 54:216, pp. 439-444.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2004a) 'The Legitimacy of Modern Architecture', The Philosophical Forum 35:2 (New Essays on Ethics & Architecture), pp. 135-146.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2002c, with Paul Cortois) 'Autographic and Allographic Aspects of Ritual', Philosophia 29:1-4, pp. 133-147.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2002b) 'Two Conceptions of Response-Dependence', Philosophical Studies 107:2, pp. 159-177.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2002a) 'The Concept of an Aesthetic Property', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62:2, pp. 167-176.

De Clercq, Rafael, (2000) 'Aesthetic Ineffability', Journal of Consciousness Studies 7:8-9, pp.87-97. Journal issue appeared also as Joseph Goguen & Erik Myin (eds.) Art and the Brain II, Exeter: Imprint Academic.

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