Nils-Hennes Stear
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Filosofiska institutionen; Estetik; Anställda
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 29
- E-mail:
- nils.hennes.stear@filosofi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 627
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-7628-2097
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Short presentation
I am an assistant professor in the aesthetics divisions of the philosophy department. My research falls where aesthetics and ethics meet. The sorts of issues I think and write about are:
- The ethics of artworks, fictional representations, the imagination, and their authors
- The relationship between the ethical value and artistic value of artworks
- The nature and ethics of cultural appropriation
- Why people care about competitive games with trivial outcomes
- The relationship between art and oppression
Keywords
- aesthetic normativity
- aesthetics
- art theory
- ethics
- feminism
- feminist philosophy
- games
- philoso
- philosophy of imagination
- sports
Biography
Research
My research is mainly in aesthetics and ethics. Much of it tackles questions concerning values and what philosophers call ‘normativity’ in art, art appreciation, and other aesthetic activities. My work is increasingly occupied with how oppressive social relations condition aesthetic activities. I am currently working on a book about whether and how ethical properties affect the aesthetic value of artworks