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| Editors | Matthew Kieran |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | philosophy of art |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 384 pp. |
| ISBN | 1405102403 |
Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is a 2005 book edited by Matthew Kieran in which pairs of authors dispute central topics in philosophy of art. [1] [2]
Jenefer Robinson calls it "a very good book". [3]
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Jenefer Mary Robinson is an American philosopher, author and emerita professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. She writes on aesthetics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind and theory of emotions. She has published two monographs, one edited collection, and numerous peer reviewed articles. She is on the editorial Board for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and was on the editorial board for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. She was president of the American Society of Aesthetics from 2009 until 2013. In 2007 she was a Leverhulme visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham and in 2006 she received a Rieveschl Award for Scholarly and/or Creative Works. She received the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in September 2002. She was interviewed by Hans Maes for his book Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, which also contains her portrait by American photographer Steve Pyke. Debates in Aesthetics, an open access journal published by the British Society of Aesthetics, dedicated Vol. 14 No. 1 to her work.
Paul Christopher Taylor is an American philosopher, author, and W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Previously he taught philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He writes on race theory, aesthetics, pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and Africana philosophy.
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