Abstract

MALCOLM BUDD taught for more than 30 years at University College London. His writings include Music and the Emotions (1985), Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology (1989), Values of Art (1995), The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (2002), and Aesthetic Essays (2008). He is Emeritus Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic and a Fellow of the British Academy.RAFAEL DE CLERCQ holds a doctoral degree in philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders. He is now teaching at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research interests lie mainly in aesthetics and metaphysics. He has published on aesthetic properties, the perception of music, architecture, response-dependence and criteria of identity.MAXIMILIAN DE GAYNESFORD, formerly Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College Oxford, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of I: The Meaning of the First Person Term (2006), Hilary Putnam (2006), and John McDowell (2004).