George Dickie (philosopher)

George Thomas Dickie (12 August 1926 – March 24, 2020) was an American philosopher. He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago.[2] His specialities included aesthetics, philosophy of art, and Eighteenth Century theories of taste.

George Dickie
Born
George Thomas Dickie[1]

(1926-08-12)August 12, 1926
DiedMarch 24, 2020(2020-03-24) (aged 93)
Alma materFlorida State University
UCLA
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Notable studentsNoël Carroll, Daniel Nathan
Main interests
Aesthetics

Education and career

edit

He received a BA from Florida State University in 1949 and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959.[2] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978.[3]

He served as President of the Illinois Philosophy Association (1990–91) and President of the American Society for Aesthetics (1993–94).

Work

edit

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

edit
  • 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

edit
  1. ^ APA: Memorial Minutes, 2020
  2. ^ a b "George Dickie faculty page". University of Illinois at Chicago. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  3. ^ "1978 U.S. and Canadian Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2014 – via Wayback Machine.
edit