Danto Arthur C. - Danto and His Critics

Philosophers and Their Critics

General Editor: Ernest Lepore

Philosophy is an interactive enterprise. Much of it is carried out in dialogue as theories and ideas are presented and subsequently refined in the crucible of close scrutiny. The purpose of this series is to reconstruct this vital interplay among thinkers. Each book consists of a temporary assessment of an important living philosopher's work. A collection of essays written by an interdisciplinary group of critics addressing the substantial theses of the philosopher's corpus opens each volume. In the last section, the philosopher responds to his or her critics, clarifies crucial points of the discussion, or updates his or her doctrines

1 Dretske and His Critics

Edited by Brian McLaughlin

2 John Searle and His Critics

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Robert van Gulick

3 Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics

Edited by Barry Loewer and Georges Rey

4 Dennett and His Critics

Edited by Bo Dahlbom

5 Danto and His Critics

Edited by Mark Rollins

6 Perspectives on Quine

Edited by Robert B. Barrett and Roger F. Gibson

7 The Churchlands and Their Critics

Edited by Robert N. McCauley

8 Singer and His Critics

Edited by Dale Jamieson

9 Rorty and His Critcs

Edited by Robert B. Brandom

10 Chomsky and His Critics

Edited by Louise M. Antony and Norbert Hornstein

11 Dworkin and His Critics

Edited by Justine Burley

12 McDowell and His Critics

Edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald

13 Stich and His Critics

Edited by Dominic Murphy and Michael Bishop

14 Danto and His Critics, 2nd Edition

Edited by Mark Rollins

This second edition first published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Danto and his critics / edited by Mark Rollins. 2nd ed.

p. cm. (Philosophers and their critics ; 14)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-67344-7 (hardback)

1. Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924 I. Rollins, Mark, 1947

B945.D364D36 2012

191dc23

2011044952

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

For my daughter, Alison

Notes on Contributors

Myles Brand (19422009) was President of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), of Indiana University, and of the University of Oregon. He authored many books in action theory, e.g., Intending and Acting , and later advocated for academic reform on behalf of student-athletes.

Peg Brand is an artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana UniversityPurdue University, Indianapolis, whose specialty in aesthetics is feminist art and theory. She is editor of Beauty Matters and Beauty Revisited .

David Carrier is Champney Family Professor at Case Western University/Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been a Getty Scholar and contributing editor at Arts Magazine. His books include Artwriting , Principles of Art History Writing , and Poussin's Paintings.

Nol Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include Beyond Aesthetics , The Philosophy of Motion Pictures , The Philosophy of Art , and The Philosophy of Horror. He is past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Diarmuid Costello is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He is editor or co-editor of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics , Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers , and special issues of Critical Inquiry , The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Art History , as well as a number of articles and papers in aesthetics. He is on the executive committee of the British Society for Aesthetics.

George Dickie is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Art and the Aesthetic , The Art Circle , The Century of Taste , Art and Value , and Evaluating Art.

Jerry A. Fodor is the State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Among his many publications are A Theory of Content , Psychosemantics , The Modularity of Mind , RePresentations , The Language of Thought , The Mind Doesn't Work That Way , and What Darwin Got Wrong.

Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works, The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy , and Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory .

Daniel Herwitz is Director of the Institute for Humanities, Mary Faire Croushoe Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Marking Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde and Race and Reconciliation.

Kathleen M. Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. She is the author of The Music of Our Lives and Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Mark Rollins is Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program and the Sam Fox School of Visual Design and the Arts at Washington University. He is the author of Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science and co-editor of Begetting Images: Studies in the Art and Science of Image Production. He is completing The Strategic Eye: Perception and the Pictorial Arts.

Carlin Romano , literary critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education , has taught philosophy at Yale, Yeshiva University, and the University of Pennsylvania.