Bence Nanay (born 1974) is a Belgian philosopher and film critic. He is co-director of the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the

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and Senior Research Associate at

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Work

Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the

. He has been Visiting Professor at a number of universities in France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland (

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). He is co-director of the centre for Philosophical Psychology at Antwerp. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology and aesthetics. His work is widely discussed in journals like ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly'', ''

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'', '' Journal of Mind and Behavior'', ''Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science'', ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences'' and ''Philosophical Psychology''. Nanay is the primary investigator of the Between Perception and Action project at the University of Antwerp, supported by a million euro grant from Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (English: Flemish Research Foundation). He is also the primary investigator of the Seeing Things You Don't See project, supported by a 2-million euro Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council He is the editor of ''

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''s special issue on the philosophy of

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and the editor on the centenary special issue on

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in '' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism''. Nanay is also known for his work as a film critic. He has served as a jury member at a number of major film festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival, the Miami International Film Festival and the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina).

Bibliography

* Bence Nanay. (editor) ''Perceiving the World'' (Oxford University Press, 2010). * Bence Nanay. ''Between Perception and Action'' (Oxford University Press, 2013). * Bence Nanay. ''Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception'' (Oxford University Press, 2016). * Bence Nanay. ''Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford University Press, 2019). * Bence Nanay. ''Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters'', co-written with Dominic McIvor Lopes and Nick Riggle, (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nanay, Bence Living people 21st-century Belgian philosophers Philosophers of mind Philosophers of psychology Belgian film critics Philosophers of biology Belgian cognitive scientists Philosophers of art Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Year of birth missing (living people)