I am a philosopher who works on aesthetics.

 

I am particularly interested in what imagination, beauty, perception, and creativity have to do with one another. And I approach these issues through the lens of philosophy, art, and literature. Right now, I am especially animated by the ideas of Immanuel Kant, Jane Austen, and William Wordsworth. ​

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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 co-wrote The Geography of Taste, a book dedicated to aesthetic diversity. 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.