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Dena Shottenkirk is an American moral and political philosopher, artist, and founder of the art and public philosophy nonprofit talkPOPc,[1] whose work centers on the intersection of epistemology, perception, and aesthetics.[2] She is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.[3]

Education

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Shottenkirk has a BA in philosophy and art from the University of Kansas (1977)[4] and an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University (1981).[4] Shottenkirk received her doctorate in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2005.[4]

Career

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Shottenkirk was a staff art critic for Artforum[5] and Art in America[6] magazines, and an artist represented by Postmaster Gallery (NYC). She has received numerous awards,[7] including a Fulbright Scholar fellowship,[7] published three books on philosophy and has had numerous exhibitions of her artwork.[8]

Research areas

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Shottenkirk's philosophical research focuses on the ways epistemology dovetails with aesthetics, with particular concern regarding issues of perception.[9] Emphasizing the role of gist perception (the first approximate 300ms.) Shottenkirk has developed a theory that explains how the initial gist perception influences both the objective content that we perceive as well as our subjective assessment.[10] In this, she has joined recent research in philosophy that has shown a willingness to diverge from the traditional emphasis on beauty in aesthetics, and to instead focus on the function of art in the formation of social beliefs.[11][12] Her research and writing on Nominalism, with a specific focus on Nelson Goodman, has been extensively cited by publications and other scholars.[13][14][15][16][17]

Publications

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As author

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  • Art as Cognition - Framing the Aesthetic Experience as a Conversation, Springer, forthcoming 2024[citation needed]
  • Cover up the Dirty Parts!: Funding, Fighting, and the First Amendment, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1443830171[18]
  • Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-9048182237[2]

Further Readings

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  • Book Review: "Weaving a nominalist conception of nature, science and art"[19]
  • Book Review: "Nominalism And Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman [Book Review]"

References

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  1. ^ "Who we are". talkPOPc.
  2. ^ a b Shottenkirk, Dena, ed. (2009). Nominalism and Its Aftermath. Synthese Library. Vol. 343. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9931-1. ISBN 978-1-4020-9930-4.
  3. ^ "Faculty Profile".
  4. ^ a b c "Dena Shottenkirk". Brooklyn College.
  5. ^ "Artforum Articles".
  6. ^ "ARTnews Articles". 19 November 2019.
  7. ^ a b "4 Specialists".
  8. ^ "Bio". Dena Shottenkirk.
  9. ^ Hakli, R.; Mäkelä, P.; Seibt, J. (2023-01-24). Social Robots in Social Institutions: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-64368-375-1.
  10. ^ Cheng, Tony; Deroy, Ophelia; Spence, Charles (2019-05-29). Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-37818-5.
  11. ^ Jackson, Louvenia (2020-02-21). Cultural Humility in Art Therapy: Applications for Practice, Research, Social Justice, Self-Care, and Pedagogy. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78592-644-0.
  12. ^ 1Macleod and 2Holdridge, 1Katy and 2Lin (2011). The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. Routledge. pp. 354, 367. ISBN 978-0-203-84132-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Giovannelli, Alessandro (2005-05-07). "Goodman's Aesthetics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  14. ^ Coldron, J. (August 27, 2010). "Nelson Goodman's general theory of symbols: can it help characterize some educational concerns?" (PDF). Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive.
  15. ^ Prospero, Alfonso Di (2017-12-03). "Art, knowledge and induction". Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. 11 (2). ISSN 2036-6728.
  16. ^ Juvshik, Tim (September 2013). Realism and the Background of Goodman's Worldmaking. Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  17. ^ Feldman, Matthew (2014-04-01). Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-3-8382-6706-7.
  18. ^ Cover up the Dirty Parts!.
  19. ^ Bantinaki, Katerina (2011-11-01). "Weaving a nominalist conception of nature, science and art". Metascience. 20 (3): 565–568. doi:10.1007/s11016-010-9487-z. ISSN 1467-9981.
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