Faculty

sherri irvin

Sherri Irvin Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton
Research areas: Aesthetics, Ethics, Applied Ethics

622 Dale Hall Tower
(405) 325-6433
sirvin@ou.edu
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I specialize in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. My interests range widely, but I have written quite a bit on matters related to contemporary art and on aesthetic experience in everyday life. I hope sometime in the not too distant future to write a book on the philosophy of contemporary art. I have a strong interest in ethics, and I am increasingly focusing on the relevance of aesthetic considerations to moral agency.

I serve on the board of trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics and am the Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art section editor for Philosophy Compass, Blackwell's online journal.

Courses (recent or upcoming):

1213 Intro to Ethics (fall 2009)
3023 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (spring 2009, spring 2010, fall 2010)
3293 Environmental Ethics (fall 2009)
3900 Special Topics: Philosophy and Race (spring 2010)
5900 Survey of Analytic Aesthetics (spring 2009)
6593 Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy - Aesthetics (fall 2010)

Awards:

  • Irene Rothbaum Award for the Outstanding Assistant Professor in Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 2008
  • Museum Management and Curatorship Best Paper Award in the Curatorship category, 2006
  • American Society for Aesthetics John Fisher Memorial Prize, 2005

Publications:

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“Theatrical Performances and the Works Performed.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 43 (fall 2009), 37-50. (draft .pdf)

“Aesthetics and the Private Realm.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2009), 226-230. (draft .pdf)

“Aesthetics of the Everyday.” A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), 2nd edition, ed. Stephen Davies, Kathleen Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker and David Cooper (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 136-139. (draft .pdf)

“The Ontological Diversity of Visual Artworks.” New Waves in Aesthetics, ed. Kathleen Stock and Katherine Thomson-Jones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 1-19. (.pdf)

“The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience.” British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008), 29-44. (draft .pdf)

“Scratching an Itch.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (2008), 25-35. (draft .pdf)

“Forgery and the Corruption of Aesthetic Understanding.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007), 283-304. (draft .pdf)

“L’œuvre d’art et l’intention de l’artiste.” Dictionnaire d'esthétique et de philosophie de l'art, ed. Jacques Morizot and Roger Pouivet (Paris: Colin, 2007), 251-254. (draft .pdf)

“Museums and the Shaping of Contemporary Artworks.” Museum Management and Curatorship 21 (2006), 143-156. (draft .pdf)

“Authors, Intentions and Literary Meaning.” Philosophy Compass 1 (2006), 114-128. (.pdf)

“The Artist’s Sanction in Contemporary Art.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2005), 315-326. (draft .pdf)

“Appropriation and Authorship in Contemporary Art.” British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2005), 123-137. (draft .pdf)

“Interprétation et description d’une œuvre d’art.” Philosophiques 32 (2005), 135-148. (.pdf)

“Artworks and Representational Properties.” Dialogue 43 (2004), 627-644. (draft .pdf)

“Capacities, Context and the Moral Status of Animals.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2004), 61-76. (draft .pdf)

“Does Contemporary Art Have Cognitive Value?” AE: Canadian Aesthetics Journal 8 (2003).