George Dickie is a Professor Emeritus. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. His main interests are in aesthetics, where he has published extensively. He is the author of 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), and Art and Value (Blackwell, 2001). He co-edited Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology (St. Martin's Press, 1977, second edition, 1989), and Introduction to Aesthetics (Oxford, 1997). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the Guggenheim Foundation, the A.C.L.S. (twice), and the Advanced Studies for the Humanities at Edinburgh. He was a member of the Humanities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago during 1993-1994.