Aaron Meskin

Tel: +44 (0)113 34 33284
Email: a.meskin@leeds.ac.uk

Aaron Meskin joined the Department in the fall of 2005. Before his move to Leeds, Meskin taught at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

His current interests include the imagination, the ontology of the multiple arts, the semantics of aesthetic adjectives, and the aesthetic issues raised by comics and graphic novels. He serves on the executive committee of the British Society of Aesthetics and is a Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is co-investigator on the AHRC project "Method in philosophical aesthetics: the challenge from the sciences."

Research Interests
* Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
* Philosophical Psychology
* Philosophy of Film
* Philosophy of Literature

Selected Publications
* 'Defining Comics?', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65 (2007), 369-379
* 'An Objective Counterfactual Theory of Information', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84 (2006), 333–52 (with Jonathan Cohen)
* 'Aesthetic Testimony: What Can We Learn From Others About Beauty and Art?' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69 (2004), 65–91
* 'On the Epistemic Value of Photographs,' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62 (2004), 197–210 (with Jonathan Cohen)

See Aaron's personal page for full publication information.