- B.A. Florida State University (1949)
- Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (1959)
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, & Eighteenth-Century Theories of Taste
BOOKS
- Art and Value, Blackwell Publishers, 2001
- Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytical Approach, Oxford University Press, 1997
- The Century of Taste, Oxford University Press, 1996
- Evaluating Art, Temple University Press, 1988
- The Art Circle, Haven, 1984
- Art and the Aesthetic, Cornell University Press, 1974
- Aesthetics: An Introduction, Pegasus, 1971
SELECTED ARTICLES
- "Theorizing about Art: Intension and Extension," The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, ed. Peter Kivy, 2004 Blackwell
- "Iron, Leather, and Critical Principles," Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, ed. Matthew Kieran, 2005, Blackwell
- "The Intentional Fallacy: Defending Beardsley," with W. Kent Wilson, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1995
- "The New Institutional Theory of Art," Proceeding of the 8th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Wein, 1984
- "Defining Art," American Philosophical Quarterly, 1969
- "The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude," American Philosophical Quarterly, 1964
- "Is Psychology Relevant to Aesthetics?" The Philosophical Review, 1962
FELLOWSHIPS
- National Endowment for the Humanities 1971-2
- Guggenheim 1978-9
- National Endowment for the Humanities 1989-90
- University of Illinois Humanities Institute 1993-4
OFFICES
- President, Illinois Philosophy Association 1990-1
- President, American Society for Aesthetics 1993-4