Richard Eldridge

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Richard Eldridge
BornSeptember 14, 1953
Education University of Chicago (PhD), Middlebury College (AB)
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions Swarthmore College
Thesis In Pursuit of Self-Reconciliation and Community: Wittgenstein and the Role of Criticism in Philosophy (1981)
Doctoral advisor Ted Cohen, Alan Donagan, M. Thompson
Main interests
philosophy of art

Richard Eldridge (born September 14, 1953) is an American philosopher and the Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is known for his works on philosophy of art. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

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  1. Dawson, Josh (September 2017). "Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject RICHARD ELDRIDGE Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; 235 pp.; $65.00 (hardback)". Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie. 56 (3): 597–598. doi:10.1017/S0012217317000427. ISSN   0012-2173.
  2. Feagin, Susan (1988). "Anne Sheppard, Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art". Philosophy in Review. 8: 444–448.
  3. Todd, Cain (1 January 2005). "Review: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art". The British Journal of Aesthetics. 45 (2): 192–193. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayi021.
  4. "Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art - American Society For Aesthetics". aesthetics-online.org.
  5. Hamilton, Christopher (14 August 2019). "Review of Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617.
  6. Pippin, Robert (13 January 2009). "Review of Literature, Life, and Modernity". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  7. Velkley, Richard (14 February 2017). "Review of Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom and the Human Subject". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  8. Holbo, John (2 June 2005). "Review of The Literary Wittgenstein". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  9. Affeldt, Steven G. (1 November 2003). "Review of Stanley Cavell". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.