Cova Florian - Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics

Advances in Experimental Philosophy

Series Editor:

James Beebe, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, USA

Editorial Board:

Joshua Knobe, Yale University, USA

Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Thomas Nadelhoffer, College of Charleston, UK

Eddy Nahmias, Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, USA

Jennifer Cole Wright, College of Charleston, USA

Joshua Alexander, Siena College, USA

Empirical and experimental philosophy is generating tremendous excitement, producing unexpected results that are challenging traditional philosophical methods. Advances in Experimental Philosophy responds to this trend, bringing together some of the most exciting voices in the field to understand the approach and measure its impact in contemporary philosophy. The result is a series that captures past and present developments and anticipates future research directions.

To provide in-depth examinations, each volume links experimental philosophy to a key philosophical area. They provide historical overviews alongside case studies, reviews of current problems and discussions of new directions. For upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals actively pursuing research in experimental philosophy these are essential resources.

Titles in the series include:

Advances in Experimental Epistemology, edited by James R. Beebe

Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology, edited by Hagop Sarkissian and Jennifer Cole Wright

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language, edited by Jussi Haukioja

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, edited by Justin Sytsma

Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy,

edited by Helen De Cruz and Ryan Nichols

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics

Edited by
Florian Cova and Sbastien Rhault

Contents

James Andow is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He was previously at the University of Reading. His recent experimental work includes Third-Person Knowledge Ascriptions (coauthors: Jumbly Grindrod and Nat Hansen), which is forthcoming in Mind and Language, Lay Intuitions and Epistemic Normativity (coauthors: Pen Roberts and Kelly Schmidtke) in Synthese (2017), and Are Intuitions about Moral Relevance Susceptible to Framing Effects? in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2017). James also has an active research interest in philosophical methodology. His recent methodological work includes English Language and Philosophy (coauthor: Jonathan Tallant), forthcoming in Adolphs and Knights Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, Intuition-Talk: Virus or Virtue? in Philosophia (2017), and A Partial Defence of Descriptive Evidentialism about Intuitions in Metaphilosophy (2017). James was a founder of Experimental Philosophy Group UK and continues to be one of the main coordinators of the group. You can read more about his research at jamesandow.co.uk.

Margherita Arcangeli is Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin (Department of Philosophy). Her main areas of research are philosophy of mind (with an emphasis on the philosophy of imagination), philosophy of science (with an emphasis on the debate about thought experiments), aesthetics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Constant Bonard is working on his PhD between the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerpen (Belgium), supervised by Profs. Julien Deonna and Bence Nanay. He researches and teaches in the fields of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. His PhD is on the notion of affective meaning, how it is to be distinguished from descriptive meaning, and its role in human communication, verbal and nonverbal.

Florian Cova is postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. His work in experimental philosophy has touched a wide array of topics: intentional action, free will, aesthetics, or even political philosophy. Recently, he has been the main coordinator of the XPhi Replicability Project, a project aiming to assess the reproducibility of results in experimental philosophy. Turned out his faith in experimental philosophy might not have been misplaced.

Jrme Dokic is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (part of PSL Research University) and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. He has written many articles on perception, memory, imagination, and metacognition. His books include La philosophie du son with Roberto Casati, Lesprit en mouvement. Essai sur la dynamique cognitive, Quest-ce que la perception? and Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success with Pascal Engel.

Taylor Enoch is a PhD candidate in philosophy at University College London. He is associate of the TCNJ Experimental Philosophy Laboratory and UCL Laboratory of Neurobiology. His research focuses on methodology in aesthetics and neuroaesthetics.

Steve Humbert-Droz is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Fribourg. He is currently working on a taxonomy of imagination in light of the mode/content distinction. His other interests concern aesthetic values, organic unities, as well as philosophy of emotions.

Richard Kamber is Professor of Philosophy at the College of New Jersey. He earned BA from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in philosophy from Claremont University. He did postdoctoral work at Oxford University. He served for fifteen years as a university administrator before returning to full-time teaching. He is the author of three books on the history of philosophy, and articles on a variety of subjects, including aesthetics, existentialism, film, the Holocaust, and higher education. His most recent articles are: The Free Will of Ebenezer Scrooge and Does Philosophical Progress Matter? He is currently working on a book entitled Why Philosophers Cant Agree: Though Scientists Can. He is the outgoing president of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and vice chair of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium.

Hanna Kim is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington and Jefferson College. Her primary research areas are the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. She has written articles on the context-dependence of metaphor, the metaphorical uninterpretability of aesthetic terms, imaginative resistance, and moral and punitive desert.

Markus Kneer is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Zurich. His work focuses on mind, language, and moral psychology.

Shen-yi Liao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Puget Sound. He is Taiwanese.

Aaron Meskin is Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He works on a variety of issues in aesthetics, the philosophy of food, and philosophical psychology. He has authored numerous articles and chapters and coedited five books, including The Routledge Companion to Comics (2016), Aesthetics and the Science of Mind (2014), and The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (2012).

George E. Newman is Associate Professor of Marketing and Management, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research focuses on questions related to the concepts of authenticity, identity, and the self. He has published more than fifty articles in leading scholarly journals, and his research has been featured in popular media outlets such as the