Research Professor
Editor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

B.A., Philosophy, Florida State University, 1969
MA., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1973
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1975

Professor Feagin publishes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, especially on issues that intersect with philosophy of mind and epistemology, such as the nature of perception, emotional responses to art, and relevance of artists’ intentions to understanding art. She is editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Selected Bibliography

Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation (Cornell University Press, 1996).
Aesthetics. co-editor with Patrick Maynard (Oxford University Press, 1997).
"Presentation and Representation," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1998): 234-240.
"Paintings and Their Places," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1995): 260-268. Reprinted in Art and Its Messages: Meaning, Morality, and Society. ed. Stephen Davies (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997): 17-25.
"Imagining Emotions and Appreciating Fiction," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1988): 485-500. Reprinted in Emotion and the Arts. ed. Mette Hjort and Sue Laver (Oxford University Press, 1997).
"The Pleasures of Tragedy," American Philosophical Quarterly (1983): 95-104.

Recent Courses
Aesthetics
History of Aesthetics
Aesthetic Issues in the Arts (Interdisciplinary)
Philosophy of Mind
Epistemology