Diarmuid Costello

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Diarmuid Costello
Education University of Essex (PhD)
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental
Institutions University of Warwick
Thesis Aesthetics after modernism  (2002)
Main interests
philosophy of art
Influences

Diarmuid Costello is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is known for his works on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. [1] Costello chaired the British Society of Aesthetics executive committee and was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow. [2]

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  1. "Diarmuid Costello". Google Scholar Citations.
  2. "Diarmuid Costello". The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University .