Selected Publications
Willard, Mary Beth. Forthcoming. “How To Teach the Trial of An Ancient Athenian Mystic,” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, vol. 8.
Willard, Mary Beth. Forthcoming “Group Agency, Aesthetics, and Public Art” in Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art, ed. James Harold.
Willard, Mary Beth. 2022. “Institutional Responsibility and Aesthetic Value. Commentary on Erich Hatala Matthes’ Drawing the Line: What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies.” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 62, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 539–548, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac011
Willard, Mary Beth. 2022. “Aesthetic Reasons, Aesthetic Value, and the Myth of the Aesthetic Meritocracy. Reply to Erich H. Matthes’ comments.” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 62, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 577–586, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac032
Willard, Mary Beth, and Jennifer Kokai. 2022. - “Holy Forking Shirtballs: An Interdisciplinary Examination of What It Means to Be Good”, in Removing the Educational Silos: Models of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Education, ed. Pangle et. al. Chicago: Intellect Press.
Willard, Mary Beth. 2021, Why It’s OK to Enjoy the Art of Immoral Artists. Routledge.
Willard, Mary Beth. “Reclaiming the Paradox of Fiction.” Debates in Aesthetics, Vol 14. No.1 (2019), pp. 30-44.
Willard, Mary Beth. 2019. “When Public Art Goes Bad: Two Competing Features of Public Art”, Open Philosophy (Vol. 2, 1), pp. 1-29. (PhilPapers)
Willard, Mary Beth. 2018. “Sign: A Case Study in Learning the Philosophy of Language through Games.” Teaching Philosophy (PhilPapers)
Willard, Mary Beth. 2017. “Sympathy for the Devil Inside” in Critical Approaches to Literature: Moral. Salem.
Willard, M.B. 2016. “Paradigms and Philosophical Progress” in The Palgrave Handbook to Philosophical Methods. 112-132. Palgrave Macmillan.
Willard, Mary Beth. 2016. "Vandals or Visionaries? The Ethical Criticism of Street Art," Essays in Philosophy: 95-124. Vol. 17: Iss. 1, Article 6. (PhilPapers)
Willard, M.B. 2014. “Beauty Unlimited ed. by Peg Zeglin Brand” (review). symploke 22,nos.1-2.: 429-431.
Willard, M. B. 2014. Against simplicity. Philosophical Studies 167 (1): pp. 165–81. (PhilPapers)
Kokai, J., and M.B. Willard. 2014. A kind of magic: theatre, transportation, and moral persuasion. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, XXVIII (2): 7-28.
Willard, M. B. 2013. Game called on account of fog: metametaphysics and epistemic dismissivism. Philosophical Studies 164 (1): 1-14. (PhilPapers)