Malcolm Budd, who has died aged 84, was a leading thinker on aesthetics, and the philosophy of art; he was Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, president of ...

Arthur C. Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), a classic of American philosophy, widely read by contemporary artists, opens with a marvelous example. Søren ...

For Americans of my generation doing philosophical aesthetics, Arthur Danto (1924-2013) was the key figure. He became famous because he offered a system defining art and linking it to other activities ...

With no campus, the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is a truly nomadic institution, existing everywhere our students and faculty are. The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual ...

The Fine Arts Department, although it is in many ways superior to others in the University, has neglected one of the important aspects of the subject. It has a tendency to teach art from a purely ...

Source: "Bust of Plato (Vatican Museum, Rome)" by Dudva/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 We continue this series of comments on aesthetic cognitivism with reflections by the philosopher Noël Carroll, ...