Since the 1980s my writing has focused on issues in the philosophy of art and aesthetics. In the two decades previous to 1980, I worked on the critical philosophy of history and philosophy of religion. Generally, I take an interdisciplinary rather than a purely philosophical approach to issues in these areas. As my Intellectual Biography and CV make clear, I began my philosophical work using a phenomenological perspective, then gradually moved toward a more analytical approach inflected by pragmatism.
In addition to my CV and Intellectual Biography, this site provides information on books and articles and makes available selected Lectures and Papers; the PROJECTS section is regularly updated to describe my current work. A distinctive feature of the rubric BOOKS is that the description of the contents of each book is followed by a section called “Revisionary Thoughts,” where I indicate changes I would make if I were writing that book today, including my most recent book, Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts (Oxford, 2020), for which I already offer several paragraphs of corrections and additional thoughts up to October 2022.
