Contributors Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jaac/article/66/2/223/5979599 by guest on 06 October 2021 katerina bantinaki is Lecturer in at the University of Crete, Greece, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the . Her main research interests lie in the areas of , ethics, and philosophy of mind, especially in the intersection of these areas. This is her first contribution to The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. jerome carroll is Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has authored a book entitled Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory of Wolfgang Welsch (Peter Lang, 2006) and has published articles on Welsch’s aesthetics, Peter Handke and Heiner Muller’s ¨ theater, and contemporary German theater. He is currently working on a book- length study of philosophical anthropology as it appears in the late eighteenth century and in the early twentieth century. paul crowther is Professor of Philosophy and the Visual Arts at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany. He has published six monographs on aesthetics, most recently Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt (Oxford University Press, 2007). He has also finished a substantial new book called Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame). Paul was formerly a lecturer in the of art at the Universities of St. Andrews and Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. robert hopkins’s research interests lie in various topics in aesthetics, epistemology, and the phi- losophy of mind. He has published on pictorial representation, the senses, the epistemology and objectivity of aesthetic judgment, and the aesthetics of the visual arts. He is currently working on the imagination, and in particular its relations to perception and feeling and its role in episodic memory. carolyn korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1999) and Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2004). She is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics. stale˚ wikshaland˚ is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He took his in Monteverdi and the understanding of the Baroque, and works especially on opera, a field where he has published extensively. He is currently heading a research project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, entitled “Power mise-en-scene` : Opera, Aesthetics and Politics in the Eighteenth Century.”

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66:2 Spring 2008 c 2008 The American Society for Aesthetics