Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

KATHLEEN STOCK is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. Her areas of research interest include the imagination and its relation to fiction, and definitions of art. She has published several articles in each of these areas, and is writing a book about imagination and fiction.

KATHERINE THOMSON-JONES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Oberlin College, USA. Her research interests include film, art and ethics, and emotion theory, and she has published several articles in these areas. She is currently writing an introductory text on the philosophy of film.