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Derek Matravers

Professor of Philosophy, The Open University

Professor of Philosophy, The Open University Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written Art and Emotion (OUP, 1998), Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013); Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014); and Empathy (Polity, 2017). He is the author of numerous articles in aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. He edits, with Paloma Atencia-Linares, The British Journal of Aesthetics. Between 2017 and 2020 he directed, with Helen Frowe, the UK Government funded project, Heritage in War. A monograph detailing the findings of this project is due out next year: Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War (OUP, 2024).