Arthur C. Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), a classic of American philosophy, widely read by contemporary artists, opens with a marvelous example. Søren ...

For Americans of my generation doing philosophical aesthetics, Arthur Danto (1924-2013) was the key figure. He became famous because he offered a system defining art and linking it to other activities ...

Specializing in philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilson was especially known for his "Imagined Seeing Thesis," ...

The essays in Aesthetics Equals Politics make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing ...

This article originally appeared on Imprint. It's part of Print magazine's annual New Visual Artist series that profiles 20 of the most promising rising talents around the world in the fields of ...

Critical theory and aesthetic philosophy intersect in a sustained inquiry into how art, culture and society inform one another. Originating with the Frankfurt School’s dialectical critique, this field ...

Natacha Christeler, APRN BC: The Precision of Art and Science in Modern Aesthetics ...

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Laura D'Olimpio is a committee member of the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA). One of the interesting questions we face as philosophers who are attempting to make ...

Office: James Blair 123 Email: [[tmcost]] Dept. Office phone: 757-221-2716 Timothy Costelloe holds Doctoral Degrees in Philosophy (Emory University, 2001) and Sociology (Boston University, 1996). His ...