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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
adajiatr@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Office: Cleveland 206
Phone: (540) 568-6394
Fax: (540) 568-8072
Co-Founder and Co-Director, JMU Logic and Reasoning Institute (website)
Education:
B.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sample publications:
"The Definition of Art," in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"Defining Art," in The Continuum Companion to Aesthetics. London: Continuum (2012).
“Moral Goodness, Social Kinds, Natural Kinds, and Homeostatic Property Clusters,” in Applied Ethics: Theories, Methods, and Cases. Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University: Sapporo, Japan (2012).
"On the Prototype Theory of Concepts and the Definition of Art," in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63(3): 231-236.