Sonia Sedivy
Position:
Professor
Campus:
UTSC,Email Address:
Phone Number:
416-287-7159
Biography:
- BA (Psychology), University of Toronto
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Sedivy received her Honours BA in Psychology from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary research and teaching interests lie in the philosophy of mind, especially the philosophy of perception; aesthetics and the philosophy of visual art; and the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
For more information visit Sonia Sedivy’s personal website.
Main Research Interests:
Philosophy of Perception, Aesthetics, WittgensteinOther Research Interests:
Philosophy of MindPublications:
Books
- Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2021).
- Beauty and the End of Art: Wittgenstein, Plurality, and Perception (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
Selected Recent Articles
- “Aesthetic Properties” (forthcoming), in Routledge Handbook of Properties, Anthony Fischer and Anna-Sofia Maurin, eds. (Routledge, 2023).
- “Danto and Wittgenstein: History and Essence,” in A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr, eds. (Wiley Blackwell, 2022).
- “The Puzzle of Make-Believe about Pictures: Can One Imagine a Perception to Be Different?” In Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy Kendall L. Walton, Sonia Sedivy ed. (Routledge, 2021).
- “Disjunctivism and Realism: Not Naïve but Conceptual,” in New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism, Casey Doyle, Joseph Milburn, Duncan Pritchard, eds. (Routledge, 2019).
- “Aesthetic Properties, History and Perception,” British Journal of Aesthetics: Art, History and Perception (Special Issue) 58 (4): 345-62. doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayy039 (2018).
- “Art from a Wittgensteinian Perspective: Constitutive Norms in Context” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 72 (1): 67-82. (2014).
For more on Prof. Sedivy’s publications, visit PhilPapers.
Visit some of Prof. Sedivy’s publications on the Philosophy Faculty Bookshelf.
Address:
Social Sciences Building, MW 364, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C1A4
Secondary Address:
Jackman Humanities Building (room 502), 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8