George Dickie (philosopher)
| George Dickie | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1926 Palmetto, Florida |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Florida State University, UCLA |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Chicago |
George Dickie (12 August 1926 in Palmetto, Florida – 24 March 2020) was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] His specialities included aesthetics, philosophy of art, and Eighteenth Century theories of taste.
Education and career
He received a BA from Florida State University in 1949 and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959.[1] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978.[2]
He served as President of the Illinois Philosophy Association (1990–91) and President of the American Society for Aesthetics (1993–94).
Work
He was an influential philosopher of art working in the analytical tradition. His institutional theory of art inspired both supporters who produced variations on the theory as well as detractors.
One of his more influential works is The Century of Taste (1996), an inquiry into several eighteenth-century philosophers' treatments of the subject. The bulk of the work is devoted to championing David Hume's treatment of the subject over that of Immanuel Kant. A review of the work can be found in The Philosophical Review, 107:3 (July, 1998).
Books
- Aesthetics: An Introduction (Pegasus, 1971)
- Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis (Cornell University Press, 1974)
- The Art Circle (Haven Publications, 1984)
- Evaluating Art (Temple University Press, 1988)
- The Century of Taste (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Art and Value (Blackwell, 2001)
References
Further reading
- Castro Rodríguez, Sixto José (2013). "George Dickie, la teoría institucional y las instituciones artísticas," Fedro: revista de estética y teoría de las artes, No. 12, pp. 1–19.
- Castro Rodríguez, Sixto José (2020). "George Dickie (1926-2020). In memoriam," Estudios filosóficos,, Vol. LXIX, No. 201, pp. 339–46.
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