A.W. EATON

Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1421 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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A.W. Eaton is an Assistant Professor.She received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in both philosophy and art history in 2003. She works in feminism, aesthetics and philosophy of art, value theory, and Italian Renaissance painting. Her special interests include the epistemological and ontological status of aesthetic value, the relationship between ethical and artistic value, feminist critiques of pornography, and representations of rape in the western artistic tradition. Her publications include "Where Ethics and Aesthetics Meet," in Hypatia, Winter 2003 and "A Sensible Antiporn Feminism, " in Ethics, forthcoming. Among other projects, she is writing a book that explores the relationship between ethics and the pictorial arts. Professor Eaton was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton's Center for Human Values in 2005-6 and previously taught at Bucknell University.