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Aesthetics:
The Key Thinkers

Bloomsbury Key Thinkers

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Aesthetics:
The Key Thinkers

Edited by
Alessandro Giovannelli

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Contents

Alessandro Giovannelli

Robert Stecker

Angela Curran

Gian Carlo Garfagnini

Alan H. Goldman

Elisabeth Schellekens

Richard Eldridge

Scott Jenkins

Gary Kemp

Susan Feagin

Thomas Leddy

Joseph Shieber

Gerhard Richter

Nol Carroll

Alessandro Giovannelli

Malcolm Budd

Sondra Bacharach

David Davies

Alessandro Giovannelli

Notes on Contributors

Sondra Bacharach is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). She has published articles and book chapters on collaborative artistic authorship, the role of historical context in art interpretation and individuation, and philosophy in film.

Malcolm Budd is Emeritus Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UK), Fellow of the British Academy, and President of the British Society of Aesthetics. His most recent books are The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and Aesthetic Essays.

Nol Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (USA), and past President of the American Society for Aesthetics. His long list of books and articles includes his most recent Art in Three Dimensions.

Angela Curran is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carleton College (USA). She has coedited The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings and is currently working on the Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics.

David Davies is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University (Canada). He has published widely in aesthetics, especially on issues in philosophy of film, photography, literature, and the visual arts. He is the author of Art as Performance, Aesthetics and Literature, and Philosophy of the Performing Arts.

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College (USA). His most recent books are Literature, Life, and Modernity and the coedited collection Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism: Consequences of Skepticism (Bloomsbury).

Susan Feagin is Research Professor of Philosophy at Temple University (USA) and Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She has published many journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation.

Gian Carlo Garfagnini is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Florence (Italy) and Vice-President of the Italian Dante Society. He has authored numerous articles, focusing especially on the relationship between ethics and politics between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries.

Alessandro Giovannelli is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College (USA). He has published articles and book chapters on the imaginative engagement with characters, art and ethics, and the philosophy of film and literature.

Alan H. Goldman is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary (USA). His most recent books are: Aesthetic Value ; Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Dont ; and Reasons from Within: Desires and Values.

Scott Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas (USA). His major research interests are Kant, German Idealism, and Nietzsche, on all of which he has published several articles.

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (UK). He mainly works in philosophy of logic and language but has a serious interest in aesthetics. His latest book is the forthcoming Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning.

Thomas Leddy is Professor of Philosophy at San Jos State University (USA). He is the author of many articles and contributions, focusing on art interpretation, creativity, the aesthetics of architecture, pragmatist aesthetics, and the aesthetics of the everyday.

Gerhard Richter is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brown University (USA). His most recent book, titled Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics, is forthcoming.

Elisabeth Schellekens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham (UK) and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. She has published her Aesthetics and Morality with Bloomsbury and is coauthor (with Peter Goldie) of Whos Afraid of Conceptual Art.

Joseph Shieber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College (USA). He has published articles and book chapters in epistemology, philosophy of language, the history of modern philosophy, and the history of twentieth-century analytic philosophy.

Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University (USA). His numerous publications include the books: Artworks: Definition, Meaning, Value ; Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech, and the Law ; and