Marlies De Munck, philosopher and journalist, teaches at the University of Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory in Ghent. Her recent publications include: Why Chopin didn’t want to hear the rain; The Flight of the Nightingale: A Philosophical Plea for the Musician; Nearness: Art and Education after COVID-19; and I See Mountains as Mountains, once again.
Rachel Eisendrath, author of Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis and Gallery of Clouds, is Tow Associate Professor of English and chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Barnard College.
Richard Eldridge, Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, lectures now at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His most recent books are Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher and Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject.
Arturo Fontaine is a Chilean novelist and professor of philosophy at University Adolfo Ibáñez and University of Chile. His latest novel is La Vida Doble: A Novel.
Jane Forsey teaches philosophy at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Design and coeditor (with Lars Aagaard-Mogensen) of two volumes of essays, On Taste and On the Ugly: Aesthetic Exchanges.
Michalle Gal is a senior faculty member in the Unit of History and Philosophy, Shenkar College. Her recent books are Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory and Introduction to Theory of Design.
Jonathan Gilmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind.
Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her most recent book, dedicated to Arthur Danto, is Red Sea–Red Square–Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story.
Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism, Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics and In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America.
Adrian Haddock is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, following an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship at the University of Leipzig. His most recent publication is “The Wonder of Signs,” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. His most recent book is Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.
Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His most recent book is Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe.
Casey Haskins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. His current book project is on the history of the debate over autonomy in modern aesthetic theory.
Daniel Herwitz is Fredric Huetwell Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written widely in aesthetics, culture and politics, including his early book, Making Theory/Constructing Art, which placed Danto’s philosophy and criticism within the avant-gardes of culture and science.
Gregg M. Horowitz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pratt Institute. Previous publications on Arthur C. Danto include The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste, co-written with Tom Huhn.
F. M. Kamm, Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, is the author of works in ethical theory and practical ethics, most recently The Trolley Problem Mysteries and Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead.
Michael Kelly is Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, President of the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation; and author of A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art and of Iconoclasm in Aesthetics.
Karlheinz Lüdeking taught history and theory of art at the University of the Arts in Berlin until he retired in 2017.
Emma Stone Mackinnon is Assistant Professor of the History of Modern Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College. Her work on political theory and the history of human rights has appeared in Political Theory and Humanity.
Bence Nanay is BOF Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. His books include Between Perception and Action, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception, Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction, and The Fragmented Mind.
Mark Rollins is Professor of Philosophy and in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His publications include Mental Imagery: On the limits of Cognitive Science, Danto and His Critics, and “What Monet Meant: Intention and Attention in Understanding Art.”
Sam Rose teaches at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Art and Form and Interpreting Art.
Carol Rovane is Violin Family Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. In addition to articles spanning many areas of philosophy, she has authored two books: The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism.
Fred Rush is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and author of Irony and Idealism and On Architecture.
Sonia Sedivy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her recent work includes Beauty and the End of Art, Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception and, as editor, Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy Kendall L. Walton.
Gary Shapiro is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Richmond. His writings include Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel; Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying; and Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics.
Sandra Shapshay is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College & the Graduate Center (CUNY); her recent publications include: “What is ‘the Monumental?”, “Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics and the Neglect of the Sublime,” and Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethical Thought: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare.
Richard Shusterman is Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. His books include Pragmatist Aesthetics, Body Consciousness, and The Adventures of the Man in Gold: A Philosophical Tale, based on his work in performance art.
Brian Soucek is a philosopher of art and professor of law at the University of California, Davis. His recent articles on law and aesthetics, including “Aesthetic Judgment in Law” and “The
