Monroe Beardsley

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Monroe Beardsley
BornDecember 10, 1915
DiedSeptember 18, 1985
Notable work"The
philosophy of art

Monroe Curtis Beardsley (

philosopher of art
.

Biography

Beardsley was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1939), where he received the John Addison Porter Prize. He taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Mount Holyoke College and Yale University, but most of his career was spent at Swarthmore College (22 years) and Temple University (16 years).[1] His wife and occasional coauthor, Elizabeth Lane Beardsley, was also a philosopher at Temple.

His work in

Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy," both key texts of New Criticism. His books include: Practical Logic (1950),[2] Aesthetics (1958) (an introductory text),[3] and Aesthetics: A Short History (1966).[4] He also edited a well-regarded survey anthology of philosophy, The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. [5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.[6]

He and his wife were over-all series editors for Prentice-Hall's "Foundations of Philosophy," a series of textbooks on different fields within philosophy, written in most cases by leading scholars in those fields.

See also

References

  1. ^ Wreen, Michael (2014), "Beardsley's Aesthetics", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-06-30
  2. ^ Beardsley, Monroe C. Practical Logic. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1950. Print. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1070457692
  3. ^ Beardsley, Monroe C. Aesthetics: Problems in Philosophy of Criticism. N.Y: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958. Print. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464258865
  4. ^ Beardsley, Monroe C. Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present: A Short History. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1975. Print. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124120770
  5. ^ Beardsley, Monroe. The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. New-York: Random House Inc, 2007. Print. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1119524915
  6. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 29, 2011.

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