Notes on Contributors

Myles Brand (1942–2009) was President of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), of Indiana University, and of the University of Oregon. He authored many books in action theory, e.g., Intending and Acting, and later advocated for academic reform on behalf of student-athletes.

Peg Brand is an artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, whose specialty in aesthetics is feminist art and theory. She is editor of Beauty Matters and Beauty Revisited.

David Carrier is Champney Family Professor at Case Western University/Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been a Getty Scholar and contributing editor at Arts Magazine. His books include Artwriting, Principles of Art History Writing, and Poussin's Paintings.

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include Beyond Aesthetics, The Philosophy of Motion Pictures, The Philosophy of Art, and The Philosophy of Horror. He is past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Diarmuid Costello is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He is editor or co-editor of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics, Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, and special issues of Critical Inquiry, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Art History, as well as a number of articles and papers in aesthetics. He is on the executive committee of the British Society for Aesthetics.

George Dickie is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Art and the Aesthetic, The Art Circle, The Century of Taste, Art and Value, and Evaluating Art.

Jerry A. Fodor is the State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Among his many publications are A Theory of Content, Psychosemantics, The Modularity of Mind, RePresentations, The Language of Thought, The Mind Doesn't Work That Way, and What Darwin Got Wrong.

Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works, The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy, and Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory.

Daniel Herwitz is Director of the Institute for Humanities, Mary Faire Croushoe Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Marking Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde and Race and Reconciliation.

Kathleen M. Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. She is the author of The Music of Our Lives and Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Mark Rollins is Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program and the Sam Fox School of Visual Design and the Arts at Washington University. He is the author of Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science and co-editor of Begetting Images: Studies in the Art and Science of Image Production. He is completing The Strategic Eye: Perception and the Pictorial Arts.

Carlin Romano, literary critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education, has taught philosophy at Yale, Yeshiva University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Gary Shapiro, Tucker Boatwright Professor in the Humanities at the University of Richmond, has written Nietzschean Narratives, Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying, and Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts. He edited After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places. He has authored articles on the history of philosophy, among other topics.

Richard Shusterman, author of The Object of Literary Criticism, T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism, and Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, is also editor of Analytic Aesthetics and co-editor of The Interpretive Turn: Philosophy, Science, and Culture. He is currently Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.

Robert C. Solomon (1942–2003) was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. His works include In the Spirit of Hegel, From Hegel to Existentialism, and About Love.

Richard Wollheim (1923–2003) was Mills Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley; and Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at the University of California, Davis. His books include Painting as an Art, The Thread of Life, Art and its Objects, On Art and the Mind, Freud, and The Mind and its Depths.