I am interested in aesthetics. This includes aesthetics in its modern connotation (beauty, art, and taste) and its original connotation (sensory perception). I am particularly animated by questions concerning the interaction of imagination, creativity, aesthetic education, and aesthetic community. I approach these questions through a broadly historical lens that I draw from Immanuel Kant, philosophers in the post-Kantian tradition, aesthetic theory, and novelists like Jane Austen.

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In my most recent book, Seeing More: Kant's Theory of Imagination, I explore a Kantian view of how imagination shapes our epistemic, aesthetic, and practical lives. I have also written the volume on the Neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer for the Routledge Philosophers Series. I am a co-author, along with Dominic McIver Lopes, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay, of The Geography of Taste. And I have edited the first English translation of the neglected work of the early 20th-century German philosopher, Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Essays on Art, Aesthetics, and Value.