Aaron meskin

I'm Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Georgia.
I am past President of the Georgia Philosophical Society and serve on UGA's Humanities Council.
I'm Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Georgia.

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Aesthetic Testimony
“Taste and Acquaintance,” (with Jon Robson), The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73 (2), 2015: 127-139.
“Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Testimony,” in Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology, ed. Dominic Lopes and Matthew Kieran. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007: 109-124.
“Aesthetic Testimony: What Can We Learn From Others About Beauty and Art?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69 (1), 2004: 65-91.

Comics
“Philosophical Aesthetics: Comics and/as Philosophical Aesthetics,” (with Roy T Cook) in More Critical Approaches to Comics, ed Matthew J. Smith, Matthew Brown and Randy Duncan. Routledge, 2019: 160-174.
“Defining Comics,” in The Routledge Companion to Comics, ed. Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook and Aaron Meskin. Routledge, 2016: 221-229.
“Comics, Prints, and Multiplicity,” (with Roy Cook), The

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then

I’m Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. From 2005 to 2019, I worked at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK. Before my move to Leeds, I taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. And before that, I did my PhD at Rutgers University. I received my undergraduate degree from Brown University.

I work on a variety of issues in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Some of my recent work is experimental in nature. I also do some work in Philosophical Psychology and, recently, on the Philosophy of Food. Much of my work is collaborative in nature. I learn a lot from working with other people, and I enjoy the process.

I have supervised successful PhD theses on aesthetic disagreement, empathy, online philosophy education, creativity and skill in the arts, science and the imagination, and the history of aesthetics.

I was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Ashford, Connecticut and Columbia, Maryland. (I also lived in Canberra and Storrs.)

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My departmental page at UGA

My Google Scholar Citations page

My Phil Papers page

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Meet New Department Head Aaron Meskin
Dr. Aaron Meskin is the new head of the Department of Philosophy. Meskin most recently served as Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, has taught at Leeds and previously worked at Texas Tech University and earned his PhD from Rutgers University.
His areas of interest include Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Food, and Philosophy of Literature with particular attention paid to underexplored art forms and scientifically informed approaches to the study of the arts. He is a co-editor of five books including The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (Wiley) and Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind (OUP), has written more than twenty book chapters, and has published articles in a wide range of journals including The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, British Journal of Aesthetics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, Philosophy and Phenomenologic