Publications

Here you can find a list of selected publications by our members.

  • Alcaraz León, M. J. (2019) “Beauty and the Agential Dimension of the Judgment Taste” in Huemer, Wolfgang and Vendrell, Ingrid, Beauty: New Essays in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Philosophia Verlag, pp. 44-70.

  • Alcaraz León, M. J. (2019) “Aesthetic Intimacy” in Oiva Kuisma, Sanna Lehtinen & Harri Mäcklin (Eds.) Paths from the Philosophy of Art to Everyday Aesthetics, Finnish Society for Aesthetics, Helsinki, ISBN 978-952-94-1878-7, pp. 78-100.

  • Alcaraz León, M. J. (2018) “Aesthetics Makes Nothing Happen? The Role of Aesthetic Properties in the Constitution of Non-aesthetic Value” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 76:1, pp. 21-31. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jaac.12416/full

  • Alcaraz León, M. J. (2016) “Is there really a puzzle over negative emotions and aesthetic pleasure?” The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, nº 52, 51-67. https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/25617

  • Alcaraz León, M. J. (2016) “Is there a specific sort of knowledge from fictional works?” Teorema, Vol XXXV, nº 3, pp. 21-46.


  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein and Levinas on the Transcendentality of Ethics'. Appelqvist, H. & Pöykkö, P-M., 2020, Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language. Appelqvist, H. (ed.). New York: Routledge, p. 65-89 24 p. (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy).

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language'. Appelqvist, H. (ed.), 2020, New York, NY: Routledge. 298 p. (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy; vol. 48)

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Beauty and Rules: Kant and Wittgenstein on the Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics'. 2019, Beauty: New Essays in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Huemer, W. & Vendrell Ferran, Í. (eds.). Philosophia Verlag GmbH, p. 43-70.(Philosophia: Basic Philosophical Concepts).

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Kant on Religious Faith and Beauty'. Dec 2019, Limits of Pragmatism and Challenges of Theodicy: Essays in Honour of Sami Pihlström. Rydenfelt, H., Koskinen, H. J. & Bergman, M. (eds.). Helsinki: Philosophical Society of Finland, p. 203-211 9 p. (Acta Philosophica Fennica; no. 95).

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933, From the Notes of G. E. Moore'. Jul 2019, In : Mind. 128, 511, p. 984-993.

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein and Musical Formalism: A Case Revisited. In : Ápeiron. 2019, 10, p. 9-27 19 p.

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein on the Grounds of Religious Faith: A Kantian Proposal'. 2018, In : European Journal of Philosophy. 26, 3, p. 1026-1040.

  • Appelqvist, H. 'What Kind of Normativity is the Normativity of Grammar?' 2017, In : Metaphilosophy. 48, 1-2, p. 123-145..

  • Appelqvist, H. 'On Wittgenstein's Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy'. 2016, In : British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 24, 4, p. 697-719.

  • Appelqvist, H. 'Wittgenstein and the Limits of Musical Grammar.' 2013, In : British Journal of Aesthetics. 53, 2, p. 299-319.


  • Bak Herrie, Maja: Det digitale objekt: Æstetik, data og kulturteknik [The Digital Object: Aesthetics, Data and Cultural Techniques]. PhD dissertation, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, 2019.

  • Vandsø, Anette, Espensen, Pernille Leth & Bak Herrie, Maja: Temporalitet og tid i kunst, special issue of Passepartout. Winter 2019.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “Tracing the Outlier: Digital Objects and Algorithmic Sorting in Rossella Biscotti’s Other” in Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, vol. 11, no. 1, 2019.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “‘Qui est Dominique Lambert?’: Sammenligningens virtuelle objekt” in Sammenligninger, special issue of K&K – Kultur & Klasse, vol. 127, 2019.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “I en sky af digitalt rod” in ATLAS, January 31 2019. Web.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “Vi har uddelegeret forbruget og nydelsen til Netflix og de andre teknologigiganter” in Information, May 2 2018.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “Unddragelsens kunst: Hermetiske objekter og deiksis uden kontekst i Gertrude Steins Tender Buttons” in Passage – tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik, vol. 32, no. 77, 2017.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “Elusive Borders” in Peer-reviewed Newspaper, Transmediale Art & Digital Culture, Berlin, February 2 2017.

  • Bak Herrie, Maja: “Elusive Borders: Virtual Gravity and the Space-Time of Metadata” in A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017.


  • Carrasco, M. “Laughing at Ugly People. On Humour as the Antitheses of Human Beauty”. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 2019. 11, pp. 126 - 158. 2019

  • Carrasco, M. “Naturaleza y valor de la literatura”. Disputatio. Boletín de Investigación Filosófica. 8 - 10, pp. 00 - 00. 2019. <https://disputatio.eu/vols/vol-8-no-10>.

  • Carrasco, M. “Make me Feel, and Think: The Role of Aesthetics in the End of Art”. Makky, L. (ed.): Questions and Problems of Perspectives of Art in Particular “Ends of Art“ in the Aesthetic, Artistic and Philosophic Theories. STUDIA AESTHETICA XIX. pp. 31 - 42. Prešov (Eslovaquia): University of Presov in Presov/ Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, 2019.

  • Carrasco, M. “Belleza”. Enciclopedia de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica (URL: http://www.sefaweb.es/belleza/). pp. 1 - 12. Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica, 2019.

  • Carrasco, M. "¿Es posible el regreso de la belleza? Estética, Belleza y Política en el Arte Contemporáneo". Ágora. Papeles de Filosofía, 36/2, 2017, pp. 151-17

  • Carrasco, M. “Aesthetics and the meaning of artworks”. Cosmo. Comparative Studies in Modernism. 6, pp. 51 - 64. 2015. <DOI: 10.13135/2281-6658/798>.

  • Carrasco, M. "Valores artísticos y experiencia estética". En F. Pérez Carreño (ed.) El valor del arte, Madrid: Antonio Machado, 2017, pp. 49-76.

  • Carrasco, M. "Aesthetics and Artistic Effectiveness: the latest Danto on Art and Politics". Arte y Filosofía en Arthur Danto, Sixto J. Castro y Francisca Pérez Carreño (eds.). pp. 293 - 310. Murcia (España): EDITUM, 2016

  • Carrasco, M. “Au-delà du conceptualisme: l’esthétique et l’art d’aujourd’hui”. Nouvelle revue d’esthétique.1-15, pp.149 - 161. 2015.


  • Danielsen, M. 'Terapi som kunst' (Therapy as Art) Billedkunst 2019.

  • Danielsen, M. 'Handlingens motivasjon' (The act’s motivation) Hakapik.no 2019.

  • Danielsen, M. 'Meditasjon og nummenhet' (Meditation and numbness) Billedkunst 2018.

  • Danielsen, M. 'Å koble seg på' (Connecting to) Hakapik.no 2018.


  • Di Stefano, E. Iperestetica. Arte, natura, vita quotidiana e nuove tecnologie, [Hyperesthetics. Art, nature, daily life and new technologies] Palermo: Centro Internazionale Studi di Estetica, 2012.

  • Di Stefano, E. Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana, [What is Everyday Aesthetics] Roma: Carocci, 2017.

  • Di Stefano, E. Designing Atmospheres. The Role of Aesthetics in the Requalification of Space, in Mario Bisson (ed.), Environmental Design. 2nd International Conference on Environmental Design, DE LETTERA WP, Milano, 2017, pp. 15-21.

  • Di Stefano, E. Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine in Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics, ed. by Richard Shusterman, Series: Studies in Somaesthetics, Leiden-Boston, BRILL, 2018, pp. 162-179.

  • Di Stefano, E. The Power of the Gift. A Perspective of Political Aesthetics, in Popular Inquiry. The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, vol. 1, 2019, special issue “Appearances of the Political Anthology”, Noora-Helena Korpelainen, Olivia Glasser, and Emily Aiava (Eds.), pp. 26-35.

  • Di Stefano, E. Art in the streets. Artification Strategies for Public Space, in 3rd International Conference on Environmental Design, ed. By Mario Bisson, Palermo University Press, 2019, pp. 121-126.

  • Di Stefano, E. From Familiar to Uncanny. Aesthetics of Atmospheres in Domestic Spaces, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthet-ics:Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media (ICA2019), 22-26 July 2019, Bel-grad, Serbia, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture, pp. 1750-1756.


  • Hjort, M, and E. Jørholt (eds). African Cinema & Human Rights, “Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora” series, edited by Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press and the Black Film Center/Archive, 2019.

  • Hjort, M. ‘What is Denmark doing in the Middle East? Soft Power, Capacity Building, and Film as Art.’ In Cinemas of Elsewhere: A Globalized History of Nordic Film Cultures, edited by Anna Stenport and Arne Lunde, 2019.

  • Hjort, M. ‘In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A response to the sceptics, based on Kenyan examples.’ In African Cinema & Human Rights, 2019.

  • Hjort, M. ‘The Public Value of Film: Moving Images, Health, and Well-being.’ In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, special issue devoted to Movings Images, Health and Well-being, edited by Mette Hjort and Tommy Gustafsson, 2018.

  • Hjort, M. ‘Guilt-based filmmaking: moral failings, muddled activism, and the dogumentary Get a Life.’ In special issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, edited by Elisabeth Oxfeldt. 10. 2018. P1: 6–13.

  • Hjort, M. ‘Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production.’ In Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier, edited by Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice, 2018, p. 130-144. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • Hjort, M. ‘Eyes on the Future: World Cinema and Transnational Capacity Building.’ In Routledge Companion to World Cinema, edited by Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison, Alex Marlow-Mann, 2017. 482-496. London: Routledge.

  • Hjort, Mette. ‘Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier’s Medea.’ In Blackwell Companion to the Reception of Classical Myth, edited by Vanda Zajko, 2017. 447-461. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

  • Hjort, M. ‘Unlikely Empathy: The Process and Effect of Identification in Listen.’ In Short Film Studies. 2017. 8.1: 73–77.

  • Hjort, M. ‘Talent Development and Capacity Building in Small Nations: On the Twinning of Film-Makers.’ Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, special issue edited by Ilona Hongisto, Bill Nichols, and Malin Wahlberg. 2016. 6.2: 81-100.

  • Burman, C., Johansson, B., Meurling, B.(2019). Tillsammans: Damsällskapet Concordia i Uppsala 100 år.

  • Johansson, B.(2019). Konsten.Ingår i: Tillsammans: Damsällskapet Concordia i Uppsala 100 år, Carina Burman, Britt-Inger Johansson och Birgitta Meurling (redaktör), Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. 76-99.

  • Meurling, B., Burman, C., Johansson, B.(2019). Inledning.Ingår i: Tillsammans: Damsällskapet Concordia i Uppsala 100 år, Carina Burman, Britt-Inger Johansson och Birgitta Meurling (redaktör), Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. 9-12.

  • Johansson, B.(2018). Gudstjänstrum.Ingår i: Kristen gudstjänst: En introduktion, Stina Fallberg Sundmark (redaktör), Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag. 219-240.

  • Johansson, B., Caldenby, C.(2016). Editorial: Historiography of Swedish Architecture. Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, London. 85(1): 1-7.


  • Larsen, B. «Gray and the Silence of Surfaces» in Kamini Vellori and Aron Vinegar (ed), Grey on Grey: On the Threshold of Philosophy and Art, Edinburgh University Press,. upcomming 2020.

  • Larsen, B. Perspectives on the Nordic, Jakob Lothe & Bente Larsen (ed), Oslo, Novus Forlag, 2016

  • Larsen, B. “Vilhelm Hammershøi: A Danish Avant-Garde Painter », in Jakob Lothe & Bente Larsen (ed), Perspectives on the Nordic, Oslo, Novus Forlag, 2016,.

  • Larsen, B. “Fragment and Laughter: The Art of Thomas Schütte”, in Mathilda Olof-Ors (ed.) Thomas Schütte, United Enemies, Koenig Books, London. 2016.

  • Larsen, B. “The Infinity of Water Lilies: On Monet’s Late Paintings” in Gordon McMullan and Sam Smiles (ed.) Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in art, littererture and music, London, Oxford University press, 2016.

  • Larsen, B. "Eye, Matter, and Interpretation" , Nordisk Estetisk Tidsskrift, no.46, 2013


  • Lee, Lenka. Drobné revoluce: streetartové umění v kulisách každodennosti (Little Revolutions : Street art and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life). In Pašteková, Michaela; Brezňan, Peter. Umenie, estetika, politika. Bratislava: Slovenská asociácia pre estetiku, 2019. p. 258-267 (together with Ondřej KRAJTL).

  • Lee, Lenka. New Beauty: Between Hipsters and Folklore. Popular Inquiry, 2019, vol. 2, No 2, p. 43-52; Nová éra Arts and Crafts v Brně po roce 2000 (The New Era of The Arts and Crafts in Brno from 2000). In Makky, Lukáš. Otázky a problémy perspektív umenia, respektíve „koncov umenia“ v estetických, umenovedných a filozofických teóriách. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 2019. p. 180-188.

  • Lee, Lenka. Paskvil, nebo umění? Nový diletantismus jako zdroj unaveného publika (A Scribble or The Art? New Diletantisms as a Source of Tired Audience). ESPES, Prešov: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia, 2019, vol. 8, No 1, p. 37-46.

  • Lee, Lenka. Traktát De Amore ve světle dvorské kultury (The treatise De amore in the context of courtly love). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012; The Rhetoric of Seduction in the Treatise De Amore. In Madalina Diaconu and Miloš Ševčík. Aesthetics Revisited: Tradition and Perspectives in Austria and the Czech Republic. Neuveden: LIT VERLAG, 2011. p. 51-63.


  • Lehtinen, S. (forthcoming in 2020). “Buildings as Objects of Care in the Urban Environment”, in Aesthetics in Dialogue: Applying Philosophy of Art in a Global World, eds. Z. Somhegyi & M. Ryynänen, Berlin: Peter Lang.

  • Lehtinen, S. (forthcoming in 2020). ”Aesthetic Sustainability in Designing Value Change”, Invited contribution to Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, eds. R. Toivanen & P. Krieg, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press.

  • Lehtinen, S. & Vihanninjoki, V. (2020). ”Aesthetic Perspectives to Urban Technologies – Conceptualizing and Evaluating the Technology-Driven Changes in the Urban Experience”, in Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies, eds. M. Nagenborg, M. G. Woge, T. Stone & P. Vermaas. Dordrecht: Springer.

  • Lehtinen, S. 2019. ”New Public Monuments: Urban Environmental Art And Everyday Aesthetic Experience”, Open Philosophy 2 (1): Topical issue "Does Public Art Have to Be Bad Art?" (ed. Mark Kingwell), pp. 30–38.

  • Lehtinen, S. & Vihanninjoki, V. 2019. “Seeing New in the Familiar: Intensifying Aesthetic Engagement with the City through New Location-Based Technologies”, Behaviour & Information Technology 2019, (8 pages).

  • Mladenovic, M., Lehtinen, S., Soh, E. & Martens, K. 2019. “Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics: Case of Self-Driving Vehicle”, _Essays in Philosophy _20(2): Topical issue “The Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Transportation” (ed. Shane Epting), (25 pages).

  • Vihanninjoki, V. & Lehtinen, S. 2019. “Moving in the Metropolis: Smart City Solutions and the Urban Everyday Experience”, in Architecture and the Smart City, eds. S. Figueiredo, S. Krishnamurthy & T. Schröder. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 210–220.

  • Haapala, A., Lehtinen, S. & Vihanninjoki, V. 2019. ”Urban Aesthetics in Motion” in 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media, eds. Jankovic, N., Drobnjak, B. & Nikolic, M. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, pp. 143–144.

  • Lehtinen, S. 2017. ”Future Definitions of Everyday Environments”, in ICA2016 ‘Aesthetics and Mass Culture’, 20th International Congress of Aesthetics proceedings publication. Seoul: Korean Society for Aesthetics, pp. 645–649.

  • Lehtinen, S. 2015. “Personal Space and the Everyday Aesthetic Experience – Boundaries and Definitions”, in Performing Cultures, ed. Jakub Petri. Krakow: Libron, pp. 147–154.


  • Martínez Marín, I. 'Robinson and Self-Conscious Emotions: Appreciation beyond (fellow) feeling', Debates in Aesthetics 14, 1, 2019.

  • Martínez Marín, I. 'Non-standard Emotions and Aesthetic Understanding'. Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. Vol.57, 2, 2020.


  • Mion, R-N. Representational Abstract Pictures. – Purgar, K. (ed), The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World. London, New York: Routledge, 2020, pp 77-86.

  • Mion, R-N. Phantasms and Physical Imagination in Husserl’s Theory of Pictorialization. – Anuario Filosófico, vol 51, no 2, 2018, pp 325-345.

  • Mion, R-N. Husserl’s Theory of the Image Applied to Conceptual Art. – The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, vol 49, no 2, 2018, pp 59–70.

  • Mion, R-N. Threefold Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Attitude. – Pelletier, J. & Voltolini, A. (eds) The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation. Routledge, 2018, pp 107–124.

  • Mion, R-N. Husserl and Cinematographic Depictive Images: The Conflict between the Actor and the Character. – Studia Phaenomenologica, vol 16, 2016, pp 269–293.


  • Schellekens, E. Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? (2009, with Goldie P., Routledge).

  • Schellekens, E. Aesthetics and Morality (2007, Continuum. 2nd ed. 2021).

  • Schellekens, E. Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed (2020, co-ed. with Dal Sasso D., Bloomsbury).

  • Schellekens, E. The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology (2011, co-ed. with Goldie P., Oxford UP).

  • Schellekens, E. Philosophy and Conceptual Art (2007, co-ed.with Goldie P., Oxford UP).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘Disagreement about Taste’ in Women of Ideas (Warburton N. ed., Oxford UP, forthcoming 2020).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘Respect, Responsibility and Ruins’, with Page J., in Artifact and Memory: Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments and Memorials (Bicknell J. & Judkins J. & Korsmeyer C. eds., Routledge, 2019).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘Seeing the Light: Aesthetic Experience and Understanding Pictures’ in Pictorial Experience: Perception and Appreciation (Pelletier J. & Voltolini A. eds., Routledge, 2018).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘On the Moral Psychology and Normative Force of Aesthetic Reasons’, with Dammann G., Estetika, 2017.'

  • Schellekens, E. ‘Value Judgements and Standards of Normative Assessment’ in The Semantics of Aesthetic Judgement (Young J. O. ed., Oxford UP, 2017).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘The Aesthetic Value of Ideas’ in Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Goldie P. & Schellekens, E. eds., Oxford UP).

  • Schellekens, E. ‘Towards a Reasonable Objectivism for Aesthetic Judgements’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 46:2, 2006.