Department of Philosophy, IUPUI, 425 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140, USA.

Office: Cavanaugh 503D. Telephone (& voice mail): (317) 274-8851. Fax: (317) 278-4579.

E-mail: pb@indiana.edu

See also
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Areas of specialization: Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics; Feminist art criticism and theory; Feminist philosophy; Existentialist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir; Fine Arts/Studio (Painting, Printmaking).

Graduate education: M.A., Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975; Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985.

Representative publications:

Edited works: Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics; introduced and co-edited with Carolyn Korsmeyer (Penn State University Press, 1995). Nominated for the 1995 Susan B. Koppelman Award for best edited work in the area of feminist studies in popular and American culture. “Symposium: Beauty Matters,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(1) (1999): 1‑26. Beauty Matters (Indiana University Press, 2000). “Women, Art, and Aesthetics,” co-edited with Mary Devereaux, a special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18(4) (2003).

Articles: “Revising the Aesthetic – Non-aesthetic Distinction: The Aesthetic Value of Activist Art,” in Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics; ed. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (Penn State University Press, 1995), 245-72. “Aesthetics in Practice: The Reconstructive Surgery of the Performance Artist Orlan,” Proceedings of the Xlllth International Congress of Aesthetics (University of Helsinki, 1997). “Disinterestedness and Political Art,” in Aesthetics: The Big Questions, ed. Carolyn Korsmeyer (Blackwell, 1998), 155-71. “How Beauty Matters” and “Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan,” in Beauty Matters, ed. Peg Zeglin Brand (Indiana University Press, 2000), 1-23 & 289-313. “Virtual Beauty: Orlan and Morimura,” in L & B (Lier en Boog), Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, vol. 6: Extended Aesthetics, ed. Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager (Rodopi, 2001), 92-104. “The Aesthetic Attitude in The Ethics of Ambiguity,” Simone de Beauvoir Studies 18 (2001-2002), 31-48. “Glaring Omissions in Traditional Theories of Art,” in Philosophy for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Reader, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Oxford University Press, 2002), 799-813. Original essay appeared in Theories of Art, ed. Noel Carroll (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), 175‑98. Also published in Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity, Vol. 4 of The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, ed. Kevin Stoehr (1999), 177‑86. “Introduction: Feminism and Aesthetics,” co-authored with Mary Devereaux, in “Women, Art, and Aesthetics,” a special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18(4) (2003): ix-xx. “Feminism in Context,” in Aesthetics: A Reader in the Philosophy of the Arts, 2d ed., ed. David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown (Prentice Hall, 2005), 494-502. The latter is a shortened version of “Feminism in Context: A Role for Feminist Theory in Aesthetic Evaluation,” in Analytic Aesthetics, ed. John W. Bender and H. Gene Blocker (Prentice Hall, 1993). “Feminist Art Epistemologies: Understanding Feminist Art,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 21(3) (2006) 166-189. “Contemplative Contextual Criticism,” Presence (Speed Art Museum, University of Louisville, 2006), 180-93. “Feminism and Aesthetics,” in The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Linda Martin Alcoff and Eva Feder Kittay (Blackwell Publishing, 2006). “The Beauty of the Game,” co-authored with Myles Brand, in Basketball and Philosophy:Thinking Outside the Paint, ed. Gregory Bassham and Jerry Walls (University of Kentucky Press, 2007).

Representative awards: Publication Award for “Feminism and Traditional Aesthetics,” special issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, College of Humanities and Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Ohio State University (1989). Seed Grant, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Ohio State University (1989). Junior Professor Development Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (1994). Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University (1998). Instructional Media Development Grant (1999), Instructional Support Services, Indiana University Bloomington, to produce the videotape “No Compromise: Lessons in Feminist Art with Judy Chicago,” ed. Susanne Schwibs.

Frequently taught courses: Introduction to Women’s Studies (W105); Introduction to Philosophy (P110); Women in Philosophical Thought (P282); Philosophy of Art (P367); Feminist Philosophy (P394). (**For course descriptions, see below.)

Course descriptions:

W105: Introduction to Women’s Studies (3 cr.): This introductory course examines both the relation of women’s studies to other disciplines and the multiple ways in which gender experience is understood and currently studied. Beginning with a focus on how inequalities between women and men, as well as among women, have been explained and critiqued, the course considers the impact of social structure and culture on gender. The intersections of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and age are investigated in both national and international contexts.

P110: Introduction to Philosophy (3 cr.): An introduction to the methods and problems of philosophy and to important figures in the history of philosophy. Concerns such topics as the nature of reality, the meaning of life, and the existence of God.

P282: Women in Philosophical Thought (3 cr.; normally cross-listed with W300, Topics in Women’s Studies): This course deals with the philosophical writings of various women in the history of philosophy and contemporary thought, such as Simone de Beauvoir.

P367: Philosophy of Art (3 cr.): A study of fundamental concepts and theories of aesthetics and a philosophical exploration of major artistic movements and genres. (**this course fulfills the integrator requirement for majors in the school of liberal arts and the school of science.)

P394: Feminist Philosophy (3 cr.; normally cross-listed with W300, Topics in Women’s Studies): A study of one or more philosophical topics in feminist thought. Examples: feminist ethics; feminist critiques of science; and feminist perspectives on motherhood, sexuality, and reproductive technology.