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I am Professor of Philosophy and affiliate professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University. I am a TTU "Integrated Scholar" honoree for excellence in research, teaching, and service. I specialize in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
I have been awarded fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson/Mellon Foundation, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. I have visited at the University of Barcelona and the University of Vienna.
I serve on the editorial board of the Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry book series and on the international scientific committee of Laocoonte: Revista de Estética y Teoría de las Artes. I was an editorial board member of the British Journal of Aesthetics (2020-26), the aesthetics editor for Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía. (2023-25) and a Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics (2017-2020).
My work has been discussed on YouTube, Psyche, and the Washington University Review of Philosophy. (Please note a couple of typos on p. 90: "Jennifer Robertson and Dom Lopez" are really Jenefer Robinson and Dom Lopes.)
Research
Most of my research has been devoted to carving out a 'philosophy of poetry' within aesthetics (now a reality). The culmination of that work is my monograph, Beautiful Speech: The Nature, Origins, and Powers of Poetry , under contract with Oxford University Press and soon to be completed. It has been funded by fellowships from the Mellon and Woodrow Wilson Foundations and the National Humanities Center.
The Philosophy of Poetry and Literature, for the Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy Series, is also under contract.
I edited and contributed to The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics (2012; PB 2015).
Most of my publications are available via my Research Gate and PhilPeople pages.
Representative and forthcoming articles and book reviews
'Shakespeare vs Dickinson: Creativity and the Use of Technology', to appear in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Fiction, edited by Carola Barbero, Frederick Kroon, and Alberto Voltolini (commissioned).
'Poesía', to appear in the online encyclopedia of the Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica, Estética y Teoría de las Artes, edited by María José Alcaraz and Paca Pérez Carreño (in Spanish; commissioned).
State of the art article on the philosophy of poetry, to appear in POEMA (commissioned).
'The Gift of the Lyric', The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition (Research in Aesthetics Series), edited by Julia Langkau and Patrik Engisch (Routledge 2022).
'Love, Death and Life's Summum Bonum: The Before Trilogy as Memento Mori', The Philosophy of Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, edited by Hans Maes and Katrien Schaubroeck (Routledge 2021).
‘Aesthetic Luck.’ The Monist, 2018.
‘Relevance Theory and Poetic Effects’. Philosophy and Literature, 2013.
‘Intending to Repeat: A Definition of Poetry.’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2007.
Recent and forthcoming talks
Panelist on Karen Simecek's Philosophy of Lyric Voice, American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2027.
'The Value of Poetry in the Age of A.I.'
American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 2026.
Philosophy of Poetry Conference (keynote), University of Genoa, January 2025.
'Poetic Powers: A Theory of Tropes'
American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting, Santa Fé, July 2026.
'Thinking with Poetry'
Bilkent University (English Department), 5 October 2023 (via Zoom).
Conference in honor of Peter Lamarque. University of York, 5-6 July 2023 (via Zoom).
Panelist, The 2022 Artfull Brain conference: Human and Machine Interaction in the Age of AI, 21 February 2022, The Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism, Texas Tech University.
Other tidbits
I was awarded the 2016 American Society for Aesthetics Ted Cohen Prize for "The Spoken and the Written: An Ontology of Poems" (in The Philosophy of Poetry, edited by J. Gibson, Oxford University Press 2015). Here are some reviews of the book that discuss my contribution: Estetika, BJA, JAAC.
In 2014 I defended The Philosophical Importance of Aesthetics in my first contribution to the blogosphere. After a lively debate there, the discussion continued here. The post won the first Ornie Award for Outstanding Guest Post.
According to the people at the The Philosophy Tree, William James and Charles Sanders Peirce are my great-great-great-great-philosophical grandparents, by way of Josiah Royce, C.I. Lewis, Norman Malcolm, Sydney Shoemaker, Kendall Walton, and Jerrold Levinson.
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