Department of Philosophy

Research

My current interests focus generally on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. They focus more specifically on practical aesthetics, art criticism, environmental aesthetics, the value of art, philosophy of film, and artworld ethics. I also have interests in environmental ethics, educational ethics, ethical theory, value theory, metaphysics, and Aristotle.

These are my books:

Ethics and the Arts: An Anthology (New York: Garland Press, 1995)
The Aesthetic Attitude (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996)
Ethics in Education (New York: Garland Press, 1999)
Introducing Aesthetics (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003)
Art in Context (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press & Swallow Press, 2008)