Professor Garry L. Hagberg Named the 2025 Monroe Beardsley Lecturer
Professor Garry L. Hagberg.
James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics Garry L. Hagberg has been named the Monroe Beardsley Lecturer for 2025. The annual lecture series, hosted by the American Society for Aesthetics, honors the memory of Beardsley, a 20th-century American aesthetician who researched the relationship between art and philosophy. Hagberg will deliver his lecture on the philosophical nature of the visual arts at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Hagberg also received the Peter Kivy Memorial Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics for his article on how counterpoint in instrumental music generates meaning. His most recent book, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Post Date: 07-07-2025
Hagberg also received the Peter Kivy Memorial Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics for his article on how counterpoint in instrumental music generates meaning. His most recent book, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Post Date: 07-07-2025