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 am the Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art section editor for Philosophy Compass, Blackwell's online journal. I am currently developing a course in the philosophy of race, which I will teach for the first time in spring 2010.

Courses (recent or upcoming):

1213 Intro to Ethics (fall 2009)
3023 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (fall 2008, spring 2009, spring 2010)
3293 Environmental Ethics (fall 2009)
3900 Special Topics: Philosophy of Race (spring 2010)
5900 Survey of Analytic Aesthetics (spring 2009)

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).