Patrick Colm Hogan

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Department of English, Program in Cognitive Science, Program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Program in India Studies, and Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Areal Distinctness, the Scope of Universals, and the Conceptual Type of Universals

Blog (August 2023): Arabic Poetics and Japanese Theatre

Blog (October 2023): Love Stories and Empirical Research

Blog (December 2023): Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Blog (February 2024): Reason and Aesthetic Pleasure

Blog (April 2024): The Double: A Literary Universal?

“The Double” (Addendum): Doubling, Shame, and Body Dysmorphia

Blog (June 2024): Story Endings and Discourse Endings

Blog (September 2024): On the Visibility of Universals

Blog (November 2024): Religious Literature

Blog (February 2025): Ethical Universals

Reply to Singer

Blog (April 2025): Lisa Barrett, Automata, and Medea’s Revenge

Comments on Keen: Universal Principles versus Uniformity

Comments on Nannicelli: Automatic versus Socially Developed Universals

Comments on Scalise Sugiyama: Less Abstract Universals

Comments on Zheng

Embodiment and Universals

Evolution and Literary Universals: Steven Pinker (and Patrick Hogan)

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Impossible Love: A Sub-Genre of Romantic Stories

Particular Works and Literary Universals: As You Like It

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What Are Literary Universals?