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 ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 135, No. 1, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy: Aesthetics (Aug., 2007), ...

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 ...

It is now about twenty years since the whole race of Germans began to “transcend.” Should they ever wake up to this fact, they will look very odd to themselves. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1826 It is ...

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 ...

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