The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Rachel Zuckert will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the BSA Annual Conference at Oxford University, St Anne’s College, September 9-11, 2022.
Professor Zuckert is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her research has concentrated on Kant and his philosophical context, broadly understood: both his eighteenth-century contemporaries, and post-Kantian, nineteenth-century philosophy. She has focused on themes in the Critique of Judgment, including issues in aesthetics, in the philosophy of biology, and relating to the possibility of empirical knowledge. She won the ASA Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2008 and again in 2020 for Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgment (2008) and Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics (2020) and is a former ASA Trustee (2014-17).
For more information about Professor Zuckert, click here.
For more information about Professor Wollheim, click here.
The Richard Wollheim Lecture is jointly sponsored with the British Society of Aesthetics. The ASA nominates a lecturer to speak at the BSA annual conference in even years and the BSA nominates a lecturer to speak at the ASA annual meeting in odd years.
Previous Wollheim Lecturers:
- 2021: Matthew Kieran
- 2020: Yuriko Saito
- 2019: Eileen John
- 2018: Carolyn Korsmeyer
- 2017: Derek Matravers
- 2016: Susan Feagin
- 2015: Catherine Wilson
- 2014: Jenefer Robinson
- 2013: Gregory Currie
- 2012: Kendall Walton
- 2011: Berys Gaut
- 2010: Noël Carroll
- 2009: Peter Lamarque