A Companion to Aesthetics

Kathleen Marie Higgins is at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Music of Our Lives (Temple University Press, 1991), of many books in other areas of philosophy, and is editor of Aesthetics in Perceptive (Harcourt Brace, 1996). She 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, is the author of Picture, Image and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He brings to the project expert knowledge of painting, the plastic arts, the imagination, and aesthetic judgment.

Robert Stecker is at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks (Penn State, 1997), Interpretation and Construction (Blackwell, 2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He brings to the project specialist knowledge of literature and interpretation. He is co-editor for aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and he has co-edited editions of Hume's Treatise and of Locke's Essay.

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His many books include Epistemology: The Classic Readings (Blackwell 1999); Ethics: The Classic Readings (Blackwell 1997); A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell 1992); World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell 1995); Metaphor (1986); Heidegger (1996). He is currently editing the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers).

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