Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Philosophy of the Western\u3c/i\u3e edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki

The topic of this collection immediately raises a number of questions. In what sense do artworks have, or express, a philosophy ? If they can be said to imply or assert propositional claims, why not just make the claims and argue for them? Do the films just serve as examples of philosophical ideas? (The majority of these essays seem to take this approach.) If so, how important is it that the examples are artworks? Would complex and imaginative thought experiments do? Are commercial Hollywood films and television shows artworks at all, and if so, in what sense? Is an artwork a better artwork if it is in some sense philosophically sophisticated