Text Box: Our ways of talking about irony in pictures are confused; we often call pictures ironic when they don’t deserve the name. Once we distinguish between an ironic picture and a picture of an ironic situation, we better understand why many pictures called ironic are not really so. But a puzzle remains. We are greatly subject to confusion about irony in pictures, and much less so about irony in statements. I explain why this is so: with pictures, it is harder to separate properties of the thing depicted from properties of the depiction. I’ll also argue that, in some cases, it is up to us to decide whether a picture or a statement is ironic. Also, the irony of a situation is not always something that exists in the situation and independent of any representation of it. Thus I am urging what philosophers call a ‘projectivist’ view of irony. Text Box: The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series is made possible by an endowment gift from Jane and the late Arthur Stieren of San Antonio. Text Box: Stieren Arts Enrichment Lecture Hosted by the Philosophy Department Text Box: The Pleasures of Irony  Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 8:00pm  n to follow in the Gold Room Text Box: DR. GREGORY CURRIE Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK and British Academy Senior Research Fellow