# Aaron Meskin

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Aaron Meskin on the Definition of Art

What is Art? That's not an easy question to answer. Some philosophers even think it can't be answered. Aaron Meskin discusses this question on this episode of Aesthetics Bites. Aesthetics Bites is a podcast series of interviews with top thinkers in the philosophy of art. It is a collaboration betwe…

Aaron Meskin (Leeds): “The Social Construction of an Aesthetic Kind: “Foodie” and Foodies”

The London Aesthetics Forum is an initiative of the Institute of Philosophy. (http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk )   Aaron Meskin (Leeds): “The Social Construction of an Aesthetic Kind: “Foodie” and Foodies” Please do not cite or reproduce this material without written permission of the author We …

Fine Poetry Podcast, Episode 1

  This week's poem was taken from a book Helen wrote in collaboration with philosopher Aaron Meskin. You can find it here. Twitter: @HelenMort  @aaronmeskin @FinaStarguard  To chat about the podcast, use the hashtag #FinePoetryPod.       

Aesthetic Adjectives: Nick Zangwill, ‘A sceptical commentary’ (commentary)

This is a recording of the workshop Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste 14 March 2014 Senate House, Chancellors Hall This workshop brought together research in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adject…

Aesthetic Adjectives: Louise McNally, ‘Aesthetic Predicates at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface’ (commentary)

This is a recording of the workshop Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste 14 March 2014 Senate House, Chancellors Hall This workshop brought together research in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adject…

Aesthetic Adjectives: Isidora Stojanovic, ‘The Experiential and the Evaluative Aspects of Aesthetic Judgements’

This is a recording of the workshop Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste 14 March 2014 Senate House, Chancellors Hall This workshop brought together research in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all these domains: aesthetic adject…

Do We Need a Definition for Art? | Aaron Meskin | Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Georgia | Season 9 Episode 14 | #150

In this episode, I talk with Aaron Meskin, a philosopher of aesthetics whose work spans comics, food, popular culture, and the philosophy of art. We begin by talking about architecture, cultural memory, and the feeling of living in spaces that carry historical weight. From there, we explore what it…

50. What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch

Send us Fan Mail A really interesting conversation with Simon Meisch this week. Simon is a Senior Lecturer for Applied Ethics at the Ethics Centre of the University of Tubingen, and until recently was also a visiting scholar here at IDEA. It's an unusual episode of the podcast in that we aren't tal…

169. Billy Elliot (w/ Aaron Meskin)

Put on your dancin' shoes, it's time to discuss Billy Elliot with Aaron Meskin (Philosophy, U. of Georgia)! We discuss dance movies, dancing, how the film melds British working class drama with fantastical, nondiegetic dance numbers, how conformity perpetuates class structures, how the film portray…