A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-6922-6
Hardcover
640 pages
April 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Kathleen Marie Higgins, University of Texas at
Austin, is the author of The Music of Our Lives (1991), and
of many books in other areas of philosophy. She is also editor
of Aesthetics in Perspecptive (1996), and is on the
editorial board of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
She brings to the project specialist knowledge of Continental
philosophy, history of aesthetics, non-Western aesthetics, and
feminism.
Robert Hopkins, University of Sheffield, UK, is the author
of Picture, Image and Experience (1998) and many articles on
aesthetics and related topics in the philosophy of mind. His
research was recognized by the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize
(2001). He is the first president of the European Society for
Aesthetics. He brings to the project expert knowledge of painting,
the plastic arts, the imagination, and aesthetic judgment.
Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University, is the
author of Artworks (1997), Interpretation and
Construction (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of
Art (2005). He is co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy
of art for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and he
has also co-edited editions of Hume's Treatise and of
Locke's Essay. He brings to the project specialist knowledge
of literature and interpretation.
David E. Cooper, University of Durham, UK, has authored,
edited and co-edited many books, including Metaphor (1986);
Heidegger (1996); The Measure of Things (2002);
World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1995; 2nd
edn, 2003).; A Companion to Aesthetics (1st edn, 1992). He
is currently co-editing Philosophy: The Classic
Readings (Blackwell).