What is imagination? What is beauty? What are perception and creativity? And what do they all have to do with one another? As a philosopher who works on aesthetics, these are the questions I think about. And as someone inspired as much by philosophy as by art and literature, right now, I am thinking about these questions in dialogue with 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 how imagination shapes our epistemic, aesthetic, and ethical lives. I also co-wrote The Geography of Taste, a book dedicated to aesthetic diversity, and am the author of the volume on the Neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer for the Routledge Philosophers Series. I edited the first English translation of the work of the 20th-century German philosopher, Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Essays on Art, Aesthetics, and Value.