Hans Maes, University of Kent,Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

Hans Maes received his PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and University of Maryland, USA. He is currently Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent and Associate Director of the Aesthetics Research Group. He has authored papers on a variety of subjects in aesthetics, including the role of intention in the interpretation of art, the notion of free beauty, and the relation between art and pornography. In 2010 he was elected President of the Dutch Society for Aesthetics.


Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has taught since 1976. He is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell University Press, 1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (Cornell University Press, 1996), Music in the Moment (Cornell University Press, 1998), L=art, la musique, et l=histoire (Editions de l'eclat, 1998), La musique de film: fiction et narration (Presses Universitaires de Pau, 2000), and Contemplating Art (OUP, 2006), as well as editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (CUP, 1998) and The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003), and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (OUP, 2001).

Brandon Cooke, Minnesota State University
David Davies, McGill University
A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois-Chicago
Andrew Kania, Trinity University, San Antonio
Hans Maes, University of Kent
Christy Mag Uidhir, University of Houston, Texas
Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland
Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp/University of Cambridge
Alex Neill, University of Southampton
Michael Newall, University of Kent
Henry John Pratt, Marist College, New York
Jesse Prinz, City University of New York
Petra Van Brabandt, University of Antwerp
Elisabeth Schellekens, Durham University
Kathleen Stock, Sussex University
Cain Todd, Lancaster University

"Maes and Levinson's book demonstrates clearly the wide range of current issues that connect aesthetics with pornography, and will be a landmark collection on the topic." -- British Journal of Aesthetics