Dr Stacie Friend
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Stacie Friend is a Reader in Philosophy, and the Director of Education and Undergraduate Programmes in Philosophy. She taught at Birkbeck from 2005-2007 and rejoined the department in 2014, having taught in between at Heythrop College, University of London. She previously lectured at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania (2003-05) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-03). She received her PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University in 2002.
Dr Friend is the President of the British Society of Aesthetics and an organiser of the London Aesthetics Forum series of talks at the Institute of Philosophy. She is also a co-investigator on a three-year Leverhulme Trust research project on 'Learning from Fiction' (2018-2021), with Gregory Currie (Philosophy, York) and Heather Ferguson (Psychology, Kent).
Stacie has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut Jean-Nicod/Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), the LOGOS Research Group at the University of Barcelona and the Aesthetics Department at the University of Uppsala. She was a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow in 2013-14.
Highlights
Leverhulme Trust research project on 'Learning from Fiction' (2018-2021): https://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/research/theoretical-philosophy/aesthetics-art-literature/learning-from-fiction/
'Criticising Misrepresentation in Fiction and Non-fiction', part of an online symposium on Fiction and Criticism: https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2020/10/05/aesthetics-for-distant-birds-workshop-4-fiction-and-criticism-full-video/ (short talk)
Keynote address at the Korean Society for Aesthetics, 'Based on a True Story', at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRprw4GlFn4#action=share
Podcast from the Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge, 'Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question', at https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2907499
Podcast from a talk for the Aristotelian Society, 'Fiction as a Genre', at http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/02/stacie-friend-fiction-as-a-genre/
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Philosophy of Fiction
- Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Language and Mind
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in the philosophy of fiction (including literature and film), reference and proper names, imagination, and related topics.
Current doctoral researchers
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KAYLEIGH GREEN
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NEIL THORNTON
Doctoral alumni
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MAGNUS FRIED
Teaching
I teach undergraduate and post-graduate modules in the philosophy of art, philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Teaching modules
- Identity, Mind and Free Will (SSPL011H4)
- Philosophy as the Art of Living: Ancient Views (SSPL015H4)
- Philosophy of Science (Level 5) (SSPL072H5)
- Philosophy and Gender (Level 6) (SSPL085H6)
- Philosophy, Business and Society (Level 6) (SSPL086H6)
- Philosophy and Gender (Level 7) (SSPL125H7)
- Art and Value (Level 7) (SSPL135H7)
- Moral Responsibility (Level 6) (SSPL152H6)
- Research in Practical Philosophy (SSPL158S7)
- Modern Philosophy (Level 6) (SSPL186H6)
- Philosophy and Gender (Level 5) (SSPL189H5)
- Philosophy, Business and Society (Level 5) (SSPL190H5)
- Moral Responsibility (Level 5) (SSPL213H5)
- Kant's Ethical Theory (Level 5) (SSPL225H5)
- Kant's Ethical Theory (Level 6) (SSPL226H6)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Wimmer, L. and Currie, G. and Friend, Stacie (2022) The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition: two experiments following a multi-method approach. Scientific Study of Literature ISSN 2210-4372.
- Goffin, Kris and Friend, Stacie (2021) Learning biases from fiction. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ISSN 1540-6245. (In Press)
- Friend, Stacie (2021) Emotion in fiction: the state of the art. British Journal of Aesthetics 62 (1), ISSN 0007-0904. (In Press)
- Friend, Stacie (2021) Falsehoods in film: documentary vs fiction. Studies in Documentary Film 15 (1), ISSN 1750-3280.
- Wimmer, Lena and Friend, Stacie and Currie, Gregory and Ferguson, Heather (2021) Reading fictional narratives to improve social and moral cognition: the influence of narrative perspective, transportation, and Identification. Frontiers in Communication 5, pp. 136. ISSN 2297-900X.
- Wimmer, L. and Ferguson, H. and Currie, G. and Friend, Stacie (2021) Correlates of lifetime exposure to print fiction. Imagination, Cognition and Personality ISSN 0276-2366. (In Press)
- Friend, Stacie (2020) Reference in fiction. Disputatio 11 (54), pp. 179-206. ISSN 0873-626X. (In Press)
- Friend, Stacie (2019) Categories of literature. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78, ISSN 1540-6245. (In Press)
- Friend, Stacie (2017) Elucidating the truth in criticism. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (4), pp. 387-399. ISSN 1540-6245.
- Friend, Stacie (2017) The real foundation of fictional worlds. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (1), pp. 29-42. ISSN 0004-8402.
- Friend, Stacie (2012) Fiction as a genre. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 112 (2/2), pp. 179-209. ISSN 1467-9264.
- Friend, Stacie (2011) Fictive utterance and imagining II. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 85 (1), pp. 163-180. ISSN 0309-7013.
- Friend, Stacie (2011) The great beetle debate: a study in imagining with names. Philosophical Studies 153 (2), pp. 183-211. ISSN 0031-8116.
- Friend, Stacie French, P. and Wettstein, H., eds. (2010) Getting carried away: evaluating the emotional influence of fiction film. Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXIV, pp. 77-105. ISSN 0363-6550.
Book Section
- Friend, Stacie (2021) Fictionality in imagined worlds. In: Sedivy, S. (ed.) Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton. Routledge. pp. 25-40. ISBN 9780367370169.
- Friend, Stacie (2016) Fiction and emotion. In: Kind, A. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 217-230. ISBN 9780415739481.
- Friend, Stacie (2014) Believing in stories. In: Currie, G. and Kieran, M. and Meskin, A. and Robson, J. (eds.) Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199669639.
- Friend, Stacie (2014) Notions of nothing. In: García-Carpintero, M. and Marti, G. (eds.) Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199647057.
External Repositories