Rafe McGregor

About

Dr Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology in the Department of History, Geography, and Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. A critical theorist with research expertise in Anglophone culture, political violence, and policing, he is the author of twenty books, including: Reducing Political Violence: Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm (2026), Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology (2025), Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework (2024), and Literary Theory and Criminology (2023). He is a fellow of Advance HE.

Work

Edge Hill University
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Academic, Reader in Criminology

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University of Rijeka
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Visiting Lecturer

Croatia

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Visiting Lecturer

Israel

Leeds Trinity University
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Lecturer in Criminology

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Bishop Burton College
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Lecturer in Policing

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University of York
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Tutor

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Education

University of Huddersfield
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

PGCE

University of York
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

PhD

University of York
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

MA

University of York
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Graduate Diploma

University of South Africa
South Africa

BA

Publications

Anthropocide

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Configuration

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Counter

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Anthropocide

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Crisis

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Critique

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Culture

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Story

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Style

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Symbolism

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Cultures of Climate Change, Changes of Climate Cultures

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Making Cultural Criticism Matter

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International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

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Recovering Police Legitimacy

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Autoethnography

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Critical Case Studies

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Los Angeles, 1947–1958

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Practice, Institution, and Context

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Public Protection and Police Legitimacy

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Reviewing the Evidence

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Southern California, 2013–2014

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The Crisis of Police Legitimacy

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The Radical Framework

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West Yorkshire, 1980

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An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

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Studies in Crime, Culture and Media

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Social Science as a Kind of Writing

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Croatian Journal of Philosophy

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Making Cultural Criticism Matter

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International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

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Recovering Police Legitimacy

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Literary Theory and Criminology

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New Directions in Critical Criminology

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Carnival Row, Season 2

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Children of Men

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Autoethnography

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Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography

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The World-Ecology of Climate Change Cinema

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Violence is a Cleansing Force

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Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art

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Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Dr Doyle's Doubles

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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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The Complex Art of Murder

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Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Analytic Aesthetics from Theory to Practice?

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Etica e Politica

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Narrative Counter-Terror: Deconstruction, Deliverance, and Debilitation

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Terrorism and Political Violence

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Bill McClanahan: Visual Criminology

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Critical Criminology

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A Literary Aesthetics of War Crime

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Croatian Journal of Philosophy

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Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism

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Response to Frauley, Simecek, Slugan, and Whitecross

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Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

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Four Characteristics of Policing as a Practice

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Policing (Oxford)

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Literary Interventions in Justice

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Estetika : The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

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Synopsis

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Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

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The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row

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Critical Criminology

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The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row: Allegory, Racism and Revanchism

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Critical Criminology

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A Literary Aesthetics of War Crime

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Croatian journal of philosophy

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A Criminology of Narrative Fiction

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James Ellroy’s Critical Criminology: Crimes of the Powerful in the Underworld USA Trilogy

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Critical Criminology

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Replies to Critics

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The Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Narrative Counter-Terror

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Terrorism and Political Violence

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The Logic of Adventure

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Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

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Criminological Fiction: What is it Good For?

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Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

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Introduction to the Narrative Justice Symposium

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The Journal of Aesthetic Education

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James Ellroy's Critical Criminology

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Critical Criminology

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Towards a Deconstructed Curriculum: Rethinking Higher Education in the Global North

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Teaching in Higher Education

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Cinematic Realism: A Defence from Plato to Gaut

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Cinematic Realism: A Defence from Plato to Gaut

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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The Problem of Thick Representation

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Contemporary Aesthetics

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The Person of the Torturer: Secret Policemen in Fiction and Non-Fiction

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The Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Chapter 14: Blindness and Double Vision in Richard III: Zamir on Shakespeare on Moral Philosophy

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The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy

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Narrative Justice

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The Ethical Value of Narrative Representation

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Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

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The Value of Literature

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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe Heather Mac Donald, 2016 New York: Encounter Books 248 pp., $23.99 (hb)

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Journal of Applied Philosophy

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The Silence of the Night

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Orbis Litterarum

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The silence of the night: Collaboration, deceit, and remorselessness

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Orbis Litterarum

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The Silence of the Night: Collaboration, Deceit, and Remorselessness

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Orbis Litterarum

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The Silence of the Night: Collaboration, Deceit, and Remorselessness

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Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

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Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

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Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge Oxford University Press | 2015 | ix + 324pp | isbn 9780198733195

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Critical Quarterly

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Literary Thickness

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Literary thickness

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British Journal of Aesthetics

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Literary Thickness

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

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Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Making Sense of Moral Perception

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

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Making Sense of Moral Perception

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

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Making Sense of Moral Perception

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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

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Narrative thickness

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Estetika

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Narrative Thickness

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Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

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Minerva’s Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940-1945 by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, 2013 East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Pressx + 300 pp., £47.50 (hb)

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Journal of Applied Philosophy

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Introduction: The Analytic Engagement with Continental Philosophy

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International Journal of Philosophical Studies

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Introduction: The analytic engagement with continental philosophy

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International Journal of Philosophical Studies

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Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment by Kelly Oliver, 2013 New York, Fordham University Pressxii + 262 pp., £18.99 (pb)

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Journal of Applied Philosophy

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Poetic Thickness

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Poetic thickness

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British Journal of Aesthetics

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Poetic Thickness

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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A critique of the value interaction debate

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British Journal of Aesthetics

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A Critique of the Value Interaction Debate

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The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Cinematic philosophy: Experiential affirmation in Memento

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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Cinematic Philosophy: Experiential Affirmation in Memento

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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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A New/Old Ontology of Film

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Film-Philosophy

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A New/Old Ontology of Film

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Moderate autonomism revisited

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Ethical Perspectives

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Moderate Autonomism Revisited

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Ethical Perspectives

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The Problem of Cinematic Representation

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Contemporary Aesthetics

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Better No Longer to Be

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South African Journal of Philosophy

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Better no longer to be

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South African Journal of Philosophy

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Cinematic Realism Reconsidered

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Polish Journal of Philosophy

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