Aesthetica Prima Philosophia is an international research group working at the intersection of aesthetics and theoretical philosophy. It provides a platform for collaborative work aimed at rethinking concepts such as truth, knowledge, understanding, representation, reason, meaning, modality, and reality through the lens of aesthetics and art.
In doing so, it seeks to establish a field of philosophical inquiry concerned with the ways in which aesthetics can reformulate questions traditionally addressed within epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of language.
The group hosts monthly colloquia, annual workshops, and reading groups, while providing a platform for collaboration on conference panels, joint publications, and funding applications.
Read the full manifestoMonthly online sessions from January to June 2027, on the last Monday of each month at 17:00 (Berlin time). The call for contributions is open until 13 December 2026 (application form).
The programme will be announced before the end of the year.
Symposium: Adorno’s Meditations on Metaphysics
In person only, in Berlin
With presentations by Brian O’Connor (Dublin), Christoph Menke (Frankfurt), Josef Früchtl (University of Amsterdam), Tom Vandeputte (Rietveld Academy Amsterdam), Christine Kirchhoff (IPU Berlin), Christoph Hesse (ZfL Berlin), Conrad Mattli (Basel), Christoph Haffter (Basel), Sebastian Tränkle (Gießen), Gertrud Koch (FU Berlin), Judith Frederike Popp (FU Berlin), Thijs Lijster (Groningen), Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin), Errol Boon (FU Berlin).
Negative Dialectics, Theodor W. Adorno
In person only, at the Freie Universität Berlin
In this reading circle, we will engage in an intensive study of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics. We plan to discuss around 30 pages per session, with the aim of completing the book by the end of the Wintersemester. Each session will be accompanied by a guest professor.
The reading group will be bilingual. While the German text will serve as the primary basis for discussion, contributions in both German and English are welcome.
The plan is to conclude the series on February 19, 2027, with a closing event, with all participants and guest professors in attendance.
Open to all master students, PhD candidates and others who are interested.
With, among others: Brian O’Connor (Dublin), Francesca Raimondi (Offenbach), Christoph Menke (Frankfurt), Josef Früchtl (University of Amsterdam), Tom Vandeputte (Rietveld Academy Amsterdam), Alexander Düttmann (UdK Berlin), Christine Kirchhoff (IPU Berlin), Christoph Hesse (ZfL Berlin), Conrad Mattli (Basel), Christoph Haffter (Basel), Sebastian Tränkle (Gießen), Gertrud Koch (FU Berlin), Judith Frederike Popp (FU Berlin), Thijs Lijster (Groningen), Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin), Errol Boon (FU Berlin).
Projects to be listed.
Contact us at info@aestheticaprimaphilosophia.org to organize online or in person events relevant to the APP.
Monthly Online Colloquia, January to June 2027
Open to members of the group
We are now pleased to open a call for contributions to our monthly online colloquia, which is currently planned to run from January to June 2027. The colloquia are a space to develop the questions outlined in our manifesto, and we warmly invite all members who wish to take part in the group’s activities to submit a proposal. During the colloquia we will discuss a pre-circulated paper of approximately ten pages by one of our members. We welcome any contributions that develop new philosophical ideas at the intersection of aesthetics and theoretical philosophy, such as how concepts (truth, form, knowledge, meaning, reason, reality, modality) can be reconsidered through aesthetics, and how aesthetics might reclaim its place as a site of fundamental philosophical inquiry, as well as works that approach the non-discursive dimensions of meaning and experience, and the aesthetic character of the philosophical form itself. Both works in progress and more developed papers are welcome.
The colloquia will take place online on the last Monday of each month at 17:00 (Berlin time) and ideally last one hour in total. Our initial schedule covers six months, from January to June 2027, with one pre-read paper per session. Each session opens with ten minutes of discussion of members’ inputs and news related to the research group; another ten minutes is reserved for the presentation of the member’s accepted paper, followed by a five-minute response from another member assigned by the board, while the remaining thirty-five minutes are meant for collective discussion.
Members who wish to present a paper, or who are available to give a response, are kindly asked to fill in the application form. Members may also indicate their intention to participate solely as respondents.
Please submit your application by December 13th. The board will select the contributions and assign the respondents, and will confirm the final programme before the end of the year.
Members selected for presentation are invited to send their paper no later than two weeks before the colloquium, so that respondents and participants have time to read it.
November 2026
Job opening at Bilkent University. The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University (Ankara) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position, starting 1 September 2027. The position is open across the humanities and may interest scholars working in aesthetics. Deadline: 4 December 2026. Full advertisement and application.
June 2026
The research initiative conducted by Aesthetica Prima Philosophia was officially launched in June 2026 at the University of Edinburgh during the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress on Fiction and Lies. The three members of the board addressed the main topics of the congress with a symposium on metaphysical truth & untruth in fiction. Respectively, they discussed how these themes intersected with aesthetics in modern and contemporary German metaphysics (Hegel, Heidegger, and Adorno), and how these intersections could usher in a new understanding of aesthetics as the locus of a first philosophy.
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Aesthetica Prima Philosophia is an international research group dedicated to questions at the intersection of aesthetics and theoretical philosophy. It provides a platform for collaborative work aimed at rethinking concepts such as truth, knowledge, understanding, representation, reason, meaning, modality, and reality through the lens of aesthetics and art. In doing so, it seeks to establish a field of philosophical inquiry concerned with the ways in which aesthetics can reformulate questions traditionally addressed within epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of language. The idea of aesthetics as a ‘first philosophy’ aims, on the one hand, to counter the predominant discursive paradigm in theoretical philosophy (e.g. reducing knowledge to propositions, being to empirical reality, truth to correctness) by reformulating these concepts as aesthetic phenomena or problems. On the other hand, it seeks to resist the tendency to treat aesthetics as a merely applied (or ‘last’) philosophy—an auxiliary theory of art focused on definitions of art or aesthetic properties—by reclaiming aesthetics as a primary site for re-engaging fundamental questions in sensuous, affective, imaginative and artistic modes of thought. The group hosts monthly colloquia, annual workshops, and reading groups, while providing a platform for collaboration on conference panels, joint publications, and funding applications.
The idea of aesthetics as first philosophy is conceived in deliberate tension with dominant tendencies in both contemporary theoretical philosophy and philosophical aesthetics.
In much contemporary theoretical philosophy, fundamental questions are articulated primarily within a discursive context. Within such a paradigm, knowledge is predominantly conceived as propositional knowledge; truth is typically understood in terms of correctness or validity; semantics is investigated primarily through language; logic is largely concerned with formal relations of inference; and the question of being is frequently equated with that of empirical reality. The idea of aesthetics as first philosophy seeks to challenge the primacy of this discursive paradigm by asking what happens when these fundamental concepts are reconsidered as aesthetic phenomena and problems.
Contemporary aesthetics, on the other hand, is often treated as a form of applied philosophy: as an auxiliary theory of art or a philosophically informed form of art criticism. Whereas aesthetics once was the cornerstone of Kant’s critical philosophy, the highest organon of Schelling’s system of transcendental idealism and an indispensable phase in Hegel’s absolute spirit – today, it has degraded to just another encyclopaedic branch of specialisation, a minor subdiscipline of philosophy. Conceived in this way, aesthetics risks becoming a kind of last philosophy: a field concerned primarily with the definition of art, the nature of aesthetic properties, or the objectivity of beauty judgements for the sake of understanding artworks only.
Aesthetica Prima Philosophia proposes a different path. Rather than treating aesthetics as an autonomous domain with its own restricted set of objects, we reclaim it as a site for re-engaging fundamental philosophical questions through sensuous, affective, imaginative, bodily, and artistic modes of thought.
By the aesthetic, we therefore understand not merely the domain of art or beauty, but those non-discursive or extra-discursive dimensions of meaning and experience that cannot be exhausted by propositional articulation or argumentative reasoning alone. To reformulate metaphysical and epistemological concepts aesthetically is to attend to their singular and non-empirical dimensions without denying the indispensable role of empirical and discursive structures on that domain.
Such a project necessarily embraces a constitutive paradox of philosophical aesthetics: it seeks conceptually to articulate dimensions of experience and meaning that are not themselves reducible to concepts. It attempts, in this sense, to speak about what resists being said, while remaining aware that discursivity can never simply be abandoned. Rather than opposing the aesthetic and the discursive as mutually exclusive domains, the research group takes their tension and interdependence as an object of philosophical investigation.
Our guiding hypothesis is that concepts developed within aesthetics and the philosophy of art can disclose dimensions of traditional philosophical problems that remain obscured when those problems are treated exclusively in discursive and empirical terms. The task is therefore not to replace theoretical philosophy with aesthetics, but to make visible the non-discursive dimensions already operative within concepts such as truth, knowledge, meaning, reason, and reality, and to investigate their dialectical relation to conceptual and discursive forms.
The research group is concerned not only with developing a theory of the aesthetic, but also with asking how theory itself may become aesthetic. Philosophy may remain an essentially discursive practice, yet its methods, forms, and techniques possess an aesthetic dimension of their own. Particularly within continental philosophical traditions, experiments with philosophical form — whether under the headings of aesthetic theory, poetic saying, aphorism, fragment, dialogue, constellation, essay, or other forms of writing — have played a constitutive role in philosophical practice.
This raises a further question: whether the form of philosophy merely communicates an independently constituted content, or whether philosophical form itself participates in the production of thought. Aesthetica Prima Philosophia therefore investigates not only aesthetic phenomena as objects of theory, but the aesthetic constitution of theoretical thought itself.
Our aim is to build an international intellectual community around these questions. We organize online colloquia, reading groups, book symposia, workshops, and conferences, while creating opportunities for collaborative research, publication, and funding initiatives. Over time, we hope that this collective activity may develop into a dedicated journal and a broader intellectual movement committed to the proposition that aesthetics can become prima philosophia.
The group is coordinated by a board of three members: Berker Basmacı (Bilkent University), Errol Boon (Freie Universität Berlin / Leiden University) and Manuel Mazzucchini (University of Verona). Read about the board.
Back to the home pageBilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye
Berker Basmacı is Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, with a dissertation on Hegel’s logic and aesthetics supervised by Jay M. Bernstein. His work focuses on the intersection of aesthetics, metaphysics and philosophy of life in Kant and Hegel. He is currently working on a monograph on aesthetics and metaphysics in Hegel’s philosophy.
Freie Universität Berlin / Leiden University
Errol Boon is a doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule) and Leiden University (Centre for Continental Philosophy). He is an associated researcher at the German Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective’, Research Fellow at the Berlin University Alliance, board member of the Dutch Association for Aesthetics. After his studies in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Freie Universität Berlin, he worked as a tenured lecturer at the University of the Arts Utrecht, an assistant lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, and as a researcher and curator for various institutes in the Dutch art sector. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, the Netherlands Institute in Athens, the Van Doesburg House in Paris, and the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. His research focuses on ancient Greek and modern German philosophy (critical theory, phenomenology), addressing questions at the intersection of metaphysics and aesthetics. His work has appeared in Philosophies, Parnassos, Technology & Culture, Pharos, among others.
University of Verona
Manuel Mazzucchini recently earned his PhD at the University of Verona. He also studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, participating in seminars of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule. His main research interests center on the ontology of art and the grammars of creation, with a particular focus on aesthetic conceptual devices (form, τέχνη, production, power) of classical metaphysics (Aristotle) and modern German philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno), and on issues of poetics. He has published numerous articles in national and international journals, as well as in edited volumes (Palgrave Macmillan, Parnassos), and is a member of international societies and research centers (Friedrich Nietzsche Society, European Network for the Philosophy of Music).
Members of Aesthetica Prima Philosophia who have agreed to be listed, with their affiliation and area of specialization within aesthetics.
Yonas Belay Abebe
Leiden Institute for Philosophy
Film-Philosophy
Thomas Adajian
James Madison University
Definition of art, aesthetic value, pragmatist aesthetics (specifically C. S. Peirce)
Vinicius de Aguiar
CESEM - Centre for Music Studies / NOVA University, Lisbon
Music aesthetics; AI aesthetics
Linus Aigner
Freie Univerisät Berlin
Currently working on an aesthetical concept of (self-)appropriation
Ahmad Alaeddin
Department of Philosophy, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Architectural aesthetics; phenomenology of public space; truth, representation, and lived experience
Hasan Hüseyin Albayrak
İstinye University
Philosophy of music, ontology of the musical work, philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology of art
Ammon Allred
University of Toledo (USA)
Philosophy & Literature (especially in the post-Kantian tradition), philosophy of mythology
Zachary E. Altman
University of Pennsylvania
Kantian Aesthetics, Wittgensteinian Aesthetics, Analytic Aesthetics
Riccardo Ancona
Department of Arts, University of Bologna
Musical Aesthetics, Listening, Aesthetics of Computation
Alexander Averhage
RWTH Aachen, Universität Osnabrück
Definitions & Ontology of Art; Taste & Judgement
John Robert bagby
California Institute of Integral Studies
Music
Fabio Bartoli
Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana (Colombia)
Philosophy of Literature
Hanna Bax
University of Humanistic Studies
Care Aesthetics, Zen Buddhist Aesthetics through chanoyu
Robin Becker
Freie Universität Berlin
Doroteya Belcheva
University of Exeter
Everyday Aesthetics, AI aesthetics
Andreas Berghaus
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Theatre & Performing Arts, Poetics
Jan Berssenbrügge
FU/HU
Relationship between poetry and philosophy
Aude Florence Bertrand-Höttcke
WittenLab. Zukunftslabor / FuturesLab Studium Fundamentale
Critical Futures & Culture Studies /‚Specology‘ & Envisioning Futures
Mateus Matos Bezerra
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Aesthetic Experience and Philosophy of Film
Lucie Blind
University of Cambridge (MPhil) / FU Berlin (Philosophy)
Critical theory of the applied arts – autonomy, function and commodity form; feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft
Jan Boesken
University of Hamburg (Adjunct Lecturer)
Political and contemporary Art History / Aesthetics and Democracy
Giovanni Bonelli
Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Erkenntnistheorie, Logik, Philosophie der Wissenschaft und der Erfindung, Philosophie der Sprache
Pauline von Bonsdorff
University of Jyväskylä
Phenomenological aesthetics, aesthetics in infancy and childhood, environmental aesthetics, aesthetic practices
Henk Borgdorff
Leiden University
Artistic Research
Welmoed Bosch
Radboud University
Material epistemology and the ontology of artistic making; natural purposiveness, aesthetic ideality and the nature–artifice distinction
Noel Edwin Boulting
Independent researcher
Alison Brady
UCL Institute of Education, UK
Existentialism, phenomenology, OOO, philosophy and literature intersections, literacy practices (including pedagogy of reading and writing)
Thomas de Bruin
Radboud Universiteit
I have mainly engaged with the works by Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze with regards to Aesthetics
Jason Richard Burrows
University of Essex
Alienation, Self-realization and the Politics of Aesthetics
Joel Souza Cabrera
UdK Berlin / SFU Vienna
Feminist Ethics, French Theory
Idil Çakmur
University of Pennsylvania
Francesco Campana
University of Padova, Italy
Philosophy of Literature, Classical German Philosophy, Philosophy of the Performing Arts
Jerret Carpenter
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Choctaw Philosophy; Native American Philosophy
Clive Cazeaux
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK
Kant, phenomenology, metaphor, artistic research
Dario Cecchi
Sapienza University of Rome
Kant; Lyotard; Garroni; Agamben; Dewey; film aesthetics; aesthetics of reception
e. Murat Çelik
Ankara University
Philosophy of Literature
Chua Zhong xian
Independent researcher
Phenomenology
Filippo Contesi
University of Cagliari
Arthur Cools
Department of Philosophy
Fiction theory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of art, aesthetic experience
SJ Cowan
Auburn University
Reflection
Giacomo Croci
Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg
Francesca D'Alessandris
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at TU Berlin (Arts and Minds Lab)
Aesthetic Cognitivism, Hermeneutics (Paul Ricœur), and the Epistemology of Literary Fiction
Gabriella Daris
Independent researcher
Philosophy of art, art criticism, art theory
Caterina Diotto
Independent researcher
Novel Theory, Literary Ecocriticism, Feminist Theory of Literature
Xenia Duda-Dudynska
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Continental Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art and Perception
David Ellis
Leeds Trinity University
Wittgenstein and aesthetics; hinge epistemology and aesthetic judgement; religion and aesthetics; the role of aesthetics in philosophical practice
Taylor Enoch
University College London
Phenomenology of aesthetic experience
Oliver Erbstößer
Universität Leipzig
Y. J. Erden
University of Twente
Rahel Aerin Eslas
Estonian Academy of Arts / Université Paris Cité
Aesthetics of Nature, Truth in Painting, Natural and Unnatural, 18th Century Painting
Marvin Ester
Humboldt-University Berlin
Adorno; Critical Theory; Psychoanalysis; Dewey; Film; Music
Daniel Martin Feige
ABK Stuttgart
Marco Fiorletta
University of Vienna
Friedrich Hölderlin, Philosophy of Religion, Ecocriticism
Melanie Förg
LMU München, CAU Kiel
Didactics/Teaching
Jonas Frankenreiter
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Centre Marc Bloch
Avant-Garde Theory, Philosophy of Art, Critical Theory
Alessio Fransoni
Independent researcher
New perspectives in art, aesthetics and their role, in the light of the ‘political’
Philip Freytag
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Martina Frongillo
Università eCampus
Phenomenological Aesthetics
Enikő Anna Gábor
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Adorno, Literary Theory
Ignacio Garay
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (Spain)
Philosophy of Music
Ido Geiger
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Kantian aesthetics; Hegel's aesthetics; philosophy and literature
Pablo Genazzano
Universidad Diego Portales
History of Aesthetics, Critical Theory
Vahid Gholamipourfard
Independent researcher
Rafail Giannadakis
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ancient poetics and aesthetics, with a focus on Greek lyric, Platonic philosophy, and Senecan tragedy
Alice Giuliani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Metaphor; creativity; mimesis; education; dialectics
Itay Goetz
University of Bamberg
Empirical Aesthetics
Dishanka Gogoi
PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities , University of California Merced
Music, Human-non-Human entanglement in aesthetics, technology and production aesthetics, ecology and aesthetics
Christoph Haffter
Institut Jean Nicod Paris
Music and Contemporary Art
Johan Hartle
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Marxist Aesthetics, Institutional Theories of Art, Aesthetics of Architecture
Casey Haskins
SUNY Purchase (USA)
Pragmatist Aesthetics; Philosophy of Music
Emma Heflin
University of Utah, Utah, United States
The history and aesthetics of Simone Weil
Alice Helliwell
Northeastern University, London
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Aesthetic value
Marie von Heyl
UDK
Bruno Hinrichsen
Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies (University of Coimbra)
Phenomenological Aesthetics, Philosophy of Design & Technology
Hugo Hogenbirk
University of Groningen
Fictional Truth
David Hommen
University of Münster
Wittgenstein
Jamie Howell
Visiting fellow at the University of Southampton
Music, composition, digital aesthetics in the non-digital realm, aesthetics of imperfection, open works, distributed creativity
Wenrui Huang
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Plato's Phaedrus
Leon Isenmann
Humboldt University of Berlin
Metaphysics
Silvia Jonas
University of Bamberg
Aesthetic epistemology
Hannah S. Kaethler
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Philosophy of Music
Sayeh Kaviani
Independent researcher
Philosophy of Art and Literature, with a focus on time and its expression in artistic and literary representation
Alexander Bernard Kiefer
Monash University, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies
Kant, neuroaesthetics
Yewon Kim
Seoul National University
Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin)
Johannes Klein
mdw Vienna
Philosophy of Music
Maximilian Klein
Saarland University
Ethical Criticism of Art, Moderate Moralism, Ontology of Art
Tobias Klein
Freie Universität Berlin/New York University
Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin), Aesthetics of German Idealism, Metaphysics, Literary Theory/Critque, Relation of Art and Philosophy
Tingjiang Kuang
University of Edinburgh (Recently graduated)
Imaginative Resistance, Truth in Fiction, Learning from Fiction
João Rodrigues Lemos
University of Turin
Kant
Mingzhu Li
Fudan University
Shangrong Li
University of Bonn
German Idealist Aesthetics and German Romanticism, especially Hegel and Schiller
Thijs Lijster
University of Groningen
Critical theory, Aesthetics and Politics, Adorno, Benjamin, Artistic activism
Yixuan Liu
Leiden University, Philosophy Insititution
Ontology of the Image, Phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty)
Zella Ludolph
University of Amsterdam
The ontology of artworks (Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Plato) and the relationship between art, sensation, and religion (Deleuze)
Carina Lue
HfbK Hamburg
My recent and ongoing projects explore algorithmic systems, AI training data, and metadata within artistic and curatorial practices
Iain Macdonald
Université de Montréal
Adorno
Fotini Mastroianni
University of Patras
Aesthetics and political theory (Rancière’s distribution of the sensible, Foucauldian discourse analysis)
Conrad Mattli
University of Basel
Kant, Adorno, Metaphysics
Thomas Meijs
KU Leuven; Université libre de Bruxelles
The history of the relation between Aesthetics and Metaphysics
Erika Rodrigues Paulino Mendes
Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto (Portugal), postdoctoral researcher at the University of Londrina (Brazil), and member of the Espace Maurice Blanchot (France).
Philosophy of writing, literature and politics in post-phenomenological and Franco-German aesthetics, with a focus on Maurice Blanchot
Juan Meneses
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Comparative literature
Abby Merrick
CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Philosophy of Art; Philosophy of Taste & Aesthetic Judgment; Comparative Literature
Martin Mettin
Humanistische Hochschule Berlin, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Philosophy, Music, Visual Arts, Design
Giorgi Mikeladze
Independent researcher
Philosophy
Julia Minarik
University of Toronto
Creativity + The intersection of Aesthetics and Logic
Marlies De Munck
University of Antwerpen
Music
Diana Neiva
IFILNOVA
Philosophy of Film
Rebecca Nicastri
Leiden University
Imagination in Islamic Philosophy
Iulia Nistor
Independent researcher
Analytic tradition, philosophy of mind, intentionality
Omowumi Ogunyemi
Pan-Atlantic university, Lagos, Nigeria
Philosophical anthropology and ethics
Joost Ouweneel
Leiden University
Literature, Blanchot, Nancy, Deleuze, Benjamin
Silvia Paciaroni
King's College London
Aesthetic cognitivism
Fabio Domenico Palumbo
Università “Mediterranea” Reggio Calabria
Intersection between Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis
Athanasios Papoulis
School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Aesthetic Phenomenology
Johann Pibert
University of Bonn
Performing Arts; Psychology of Aesthetics; Film, Theater, and Concert Psychology
Ekaterina Poljakova
University of Greifswald, University of Erfurt
Reality and Realism in Art, Myth and Truth, Kant's Aesthetics, Nietzsche's Aesthetics
Mariam Popal
Comparative Literature/Cluster of Excellence University of Bayreuth_Research Sections re:membering & translating; American Studies/University of Potsdam
Aesthetics of judgement; aesthetics and tragedy; knowledge/power and aesthetics; aesthetics and ethics; aesthetics and negativity
Lucy Psaila
University College London
Epistemic value, imagination, understanding
Melanie Reichert
Universität Kiel, Philosophisches Seminar
Aesthetics and Critique; Knowledge, Meaning and Truth; Theory and Corporeality; Art Theory; Aesthetic Subversion
Monique Roelofs
University of Amsterdam
Art and Politics, Concept of the Aesthetic, Decolonial Aesthetics, Aesthetics and Race, Feminist Aesthetics, Black Aesthetics
Laurenz Sachenbacher
Weizenbaum Institut / TU Berlin
Technological Mediation; Changes to the notions of Truth and Labour
Jan-Paul Sandmann
Harvard University
Political Aesthetics
Natallia Stelmak Schabner
CCNY
Philosophy of Literature, Ancient Philosophy
Nora Schaffer
Teachers College, Columbia University; Fordham University
Taste, Aesthetics and Morality, Film Studies, Beauty, Conceptual Art, Hermeneutics, Ontological Aesthetics, Experience, Embodied Cognition
Julius Schwarzwälder
Technical University Darmstadt
Political Aesthetics
Maxi Viola Mirabel Seidl
LMU Munich University
Meaning, Cognitive Poetics, Media Specifity, Film, Literature
Maria Serafini
University of Milan
Zushuai Shang
Department of Philosophy, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(Ucass)
Kant aesthetics and definition of Art
Luca Siniscalco
Independent researcher
Aesthetical Hermeneutics (Heidegger; Gadamer); Contemporary art and Post-secularism
Mario Slugan
Queen Mary University of London
Film, Philosophy of Fiction
Alexandros Stavrianos
Centre for Critical Realism
I am interested in how aesthetic and embodied experiences in nature shape knowledge, meaning and human–environment relationships
Kamilla Svärd
Uppsala University
Cognitivism
James Ternent
University College London
German Idealism/Romanticism
Friso Timmenga
Universität Klagenfurt
Foad Torshizi
Rhode Island School of Design
Modern and contemporary art, postcolonial theory
Sjoerd van Tuinen
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Vanessa Vidal Mayor
Universitat de València (Spanien)
Phylosophy of arts, Hermeneutic of arts
Cristiano Vidali
University of Milan
Phenomenological Aesthetics (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre), Phenomenological Psychology (Attention, Emotions, Imagination)
Jacob Voorthuis
TU Eindhoven
Philosophy of Design and Aesthetics
Christiane Wagner
University of São Paulo
Urban and Environmental Aesthetics
Sivaan Walker
University of New South Wales
Spirituality and feminist aesthetics
Simon Waskow
Hochschule Düsseldorf / Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
Music, Film, Language, Critical Theory
Frederik Maximilian Weber
Philosophers squad
Catherine Wesselinoff
University of Notre Dame Australia
Beauty
Dawn Wilson
University of Hull
Images and Image technologies (Photography and AI)
Tanja Wischnewski
Universität Hildesheim
Kritische Theorie, Feministische Theorie
Erik Wöller
Freie Universität Berlin
Fiction, Philosophy of Music
Ashley Woodward
Newcastle University
Post-structuralism
Haorui Wu
Universität Bonn
Kant’s aesthetics; Critique of the Power of Judgment and the systematic unity of reason
Kaixuan Wu
University of Georgia, Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies
Walter Benjamin; Michel de Certeau and the aesthetics of everyday life; memory, ruins and waste in comparative literature
Yu-Che Wu
Freie Universität Berlin
Aesthetics and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Literature
Lea Kristin Würtenberger
Universität für angewandte Kunst (Wien)
Aesthetic Understanding, Epistemic Gamification and the Aesthetics of Games, Pragmatist Aesthetics (Dewey)
Ekaterina Zapolskikh
Independent researcher
Aesthetics and neuroaesthetics
Giulia Zerbinati
University of Bologna / Centre Marc Bloch
Aesthetic Truth; Aesthetic Experience; Critical Theory (Adorno); German Idealism (Hegel); Aesthetic Theory and Dialectical Thought
Shifan Zhou
University of Warwick
Adorno’s aesthetics; Mimesis; Environmental aesthetics
Guenter Zoeller
University of Munich
Philosophy of art, philosophy of music, R. Wagner, A. Schoenberg
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