Abstract

PAISLEY LIVINGSTON is Chair Professor and Head of Philosophy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has published books and papers on various topics in aesthetics.CRAIG TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Flinders University. He is the author of Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Moralism: A Study of a Vice (Acumen, 2012) and co-editor of Hume and the Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2011).JULIAN DODD is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and is the author of An Identity Theory of Truth (Palgrave, 2000) and Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (OUP, 2007). He has also published many articles in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and aesthetics.MICHAEL HAWORTH teaches History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he gained his PhD in 2013. His work touches upon technology, finitude and the conditions of artistic creation.SHEN-YI LIAO is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the University of Leeds.