Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind

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.

Introduction, Gregory Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin and Jon Robson
Part I: Method
1. Feckless Reason, Dominic McIver Lopes
2. Is Aesthetic Experience Possible?, Sherri Irvin
3. 'This is Your Brain on Art': What Can Philosophy of Art Learn from Neuroscience?, David Davies
4. The Limits of Aesthetic Empiricism, Fabian Dorsch
5. Philosophy of Perception as a Guide to Aesthetics, Bence Nanay
6. Portrait of the Artist as an Aesthetic Expert, Christy Mag Uidhir and Cameron Buckner
Part II: First Order Issues
7. Seeing with Feeling, Jesse Prinz
8. The Arts, Emotion, and Evolution, Noel Carroll
9. All Your Desires in One Box, Jonathan Weinberg
10. Physiological Evidence and the Paradox of Fiction, Kathleen Stock
11. Believing in Stories, Stacie Friend
Index