George Dickie (philosopher)
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George Thomas Dickie (12 August 1926 – March 24, 2020) was an American philosopher. He was a
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of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago. His specialities included
aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...
, philosophy of art, and Eighteenth Century theories of
taste The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth biochemistry, reacts chemically with taste receptor cells l ...
.


Education and career

He received a BA from
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in 1949 and a
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from the
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in 1959. He was a
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in 1978. He served as President of the Illinois Philosophy Association (1990–91) and President of the American Society for Aesthetics (1993–94).


Work

He was an influential philosopher of art working in the analytical tradition. His institutional theory of art inspired both supporters who produced variations on the theory as well as detractors. One of his more influential works is ''The Century of Taste'' (1996), an inquiry into several eighteenth-century philosophers' treatments of the subject. The bulk of the work is devoted to championing
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's treatment of the subject over that of
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. A review of the work can be found in ''
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'', 107:3 (July, 1998).


Books

* ''Aesthetics: An Introduction'' (Pegasus, 1971) * ''Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis'' (Cornell University Press, 1974) * ''The Art Circle'' (Haven Publications, 1984) * ''Evaluating Art'' (Temple University Press, 1988) * ''The Century of Taste'' (Oxford University Press, 1996) * ''Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach'' (Oxford University Press, 1997) * ''Art and Value'' (Blackwell, 2001)


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