George Dickie

George Dickie (born 1926 in Palmetto, Florida) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago and one of the most influential philosophers 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," an inquiry into several eighteenth-century philosophers' treatments of the subject. The bulk of the work is devoted to championing, in a most forthright way, Hume's treatment of the subject over that of Kant. A review of the work can be found in The Philosophical Review, 107:3 (July, 1998).

Bibliography

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