Aesthetics for Birds

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art for Everyone

Category Archives: Intro to AFB

September 11, 2017
by Aesthetics for Birds
0 comments

New Faces at Aesthetics for Birds

Welcome back to a new year at Aesthetics for Birds! This year will bring all sorts of new things for the blog, but the most exciting is that we have five new collaborators! With these philosophers on board, we will be able to provide you with much broader, more diverse, and more frequent content. Other changes and new features will accompany this addition, but first the introductions. For those of you who are new to AFB, I will begin by introducing myself and Rebecca. (For more about AFB, visit our About page.) Alex King (Editor-in-Chief and Contributor; handles: aestheticsforbirds*, alexforbirds) Alex (that’s me) owns and is editor-in-chief of AFB. She is currently Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo (= SUNY Buffalo). Her research concerns the relationships among practical, moral, and aesthetic normativity. She also works on ‘ought implies can’ and issues surrounding high and low art (see her post on … Continue reading →

May 5, 2017
by Aesthetics for Birds
0 comments

Introducing New Wing Commander: C. Thi Nguyen!

We’d like to welcome to the AFB team our newest Wing Commander (“Assistant Editor” in AFB lingo): C. Thi Nguyen! Here are some fun facts about Thi, so you can get to know him: Current position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University Background: Once I was a food writer and a restaurant critic for the LA Times. This nearly derailed my graduate school career. Then I had to choose between that and academia. Still unsure if I chose properly. Philosophical interests: Trained as an epistemologist. Currently writing about game aesthetics and food aesthetics and even weirder aesthetics. Also, the epistemology stuff is still alive in a project on understanding how echo chambers work. Also: I swear all these interests are related. Most recent publication: “The Uses of Aesthetic Testimony”, about all the weird kinds of trust relationships our aesthetic lives involve, towards our reviewers, teachers, curators. Other hats: Chair of … Continue reading →