Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind
Edited by Greg Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin, and Jon Robson
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Edited by Greg Currie, University of York, Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds, Aaron Meskin, University of Leeds, and Jon Robson, University of Nottingham
Greg Currie taught for many years in New Zealand and Australia. He now teaches at the University of York. His most recent book is Narratives and Narrators (OUP, 2010) and he is now working on a book on literary representations of mind.
Matthew Kieran is Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous articles and books such as Revealing Art (2005) which has been translated into various languages including Chinese and Korean. His wider philosophical interests include creativity, art, psychology, and ethics.
Aaron Meskin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on aesthetics and other philosophical subjects. He co-edited Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Jon Robson is a teaching associate at the University of Nottingham, having previously served as a postdoctoral fellow on the AHRC project 'Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the Challenge from the Sciences'. He has published papers in a range of subjects including the epistemology of aesthetic judgements, the philosophy of videogames, and the beauty of God.
Contributors:
Cameron Buckner, University of Houston
Noël Carroll, CUNY, New York
David Davies, McGill University
Fabian Dorsch, Université de Fribourg
Stacie Friend, Heythrop College, University of London
Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma
Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds
Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia
Aaron Meskin, University of Leeds
Christy Mag Uidhir, University of Houston
Bence Nanay, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Jesse Prinz, CUNY, New York
Jon Robson, University of Nottingham
Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex
Jonathan Weinberg, University of Arizona