Emily Brady

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1992
Dissertation : “The Beholder’s Share: Pictorial Representation and Imagination”
M.Sc., Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1988
B.A., cum laude, Philosophy and Political Science, Middlebury College, USA, 1986

Publications

Books

Brady, E., Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh and Tuscaloosa: Edinburgh University Press and University of Alabama Press, 2003), 287 p.

Edited Books or Journal Issues

Emily Brady and Jerrold Levinson, eds. Aesthetic Concepts: Essays After Sibley, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), 236 p.

Vernon Pratt, with Jane Howarth and Emily Brady, Environment and Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), 175 p.

Emily Brady and Anita Seppä, eds. IO: Journal of Applied Aesthetics: Special Issue on Environmental Art, Volume 1, Spring 1998, http:/www.lpt.fi/io98/contents.htm (no longer on-line).

Articles

Emily Brady, Alan Holland and Kate Rawles, “Walking the Talk: Philosophy of Conservation on the Isle of Rum,” Worldviews, forthcoming.

Emily Brady and Arto Haapala, “Melancholy as an Aesthetic Emotion,” in Contemporary Aesthetics, www.contempaesthetics.org, December 2003 (no page numbers).

Emily Brady and Isis Brook, "Topiary: Ethics and Aesthetics," in Ethics and the Environment: Special Issue: Art, 8:1, 2003, 127-42.

Brady, E., “Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity in Environmental Conservation,” Environmental Ethics, vol. 24, no. 2, 2002, 75-91.

Brady, E., “Interpreting Environments,” Essays in Philosophy, 3:1, January 2002, www.humboldt.edu/~essays/ (no page numbers).

Brady, E., “Rooted Art: Environmental Art and Our Attachment to Nature,” IO: Journal of Applied Aesthetics Special Issue on Environmental Art, Volume 1, Spring 1998, http:/www.lpt.fi (no page numbers).

Brady, E., “Don’t Eat the Daisies: Disinterestedness and the Situated Aesthetic,” Environmental Values, 7:1, February 1998, 97-114.

Brady, E., “Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature,” in Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson, eds. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 56: 2, 1998, 139-147.

Brady, E., “Imaginación, Experienca Estetica y Naturaleza,” Iztapalapa: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 16: 40, July-December 1996, 53-62. (Spanish translation of “Imagination and Natural Beauty” below).

Book Chapters and Invited Articles

Brady, E., “Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity in Environmental Conservation,” reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds. Critical Concepts in the Environment (forthcoming, Routledge, 2004).

Brady, E., “Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes,” in Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith, eds. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

Brady, E., “Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature,” reprinted in Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson, eds. The Aesthetics of Natural Environments (Broadview Press, 2004).

Brady, E., “Aesthetics, Ethics and the Natural Environment,” in Arnold Berleant, ed., Environment and the Arts (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2002), 113-126.

Brady, E., “Introduction: Sibley”s Vision,” in Aesthetic Concepts: Essays After Sibley, eds. Emily Brady and Jerrold Levinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), 1-22.

Brady, E., “Aesthetics of the Natural Environment,” Vernon Pratt, with Jane Howarth and Emily Brady, Environment and Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), 142-163; 167-170.

Brady, E., “The Expressive Face,” in Pauline von Bonsdorff and Arto Haapala, eds. Aesthetics in the Human Environment (Lahti: International Institute of Applied Aesthetics, 1999), 70-89.

Brady, E., “The City in Aesthetic Imagination,” in Arto Haapala, ed. The City as Cultural Metaphor: Studies in Urban Aesthetics (Lahti: International Institute of Applied Aesthetics, 1998), 78-92.

Brady, E., “Imagination and Natural Beauty,” in Yrjö Sepänmaa, ed. Real World Design: The Foundations and Practice of Environmental Aesthetics. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Vol. 2 (Lahti: University of Helsinki, Lahti Research and Training Centre, 1997), 31-36.

Reviews and Reference entries

Brady, E., “Lou Andreas-Salome”; “Annette Baier;” “Seyla Benhabib;” “Margaret Boden; ” “Lorraine Code;” “Mary Midgely;” “Martha Nussbaum;” “Mary O’Brien;” “Onora O’Neill,” Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers (London: Routledge, 1996).

“John Benson”; “David Pole,” Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, forthcoming, 2005.

Review of Malcolm Budd, Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Philosophical Books, 45:3, 2004, 274-276.

Review of Suzaan Boettger, Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties, in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, forthcoming, 2004.

Review of David Cooper, The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery, in Worldviews, 8:1, 2004.

Review of Henry Allison, Kant’s Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, in Philosophical Books, 44:3, 2003, 270-271.

Review of Ronald Hepburn, The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature in Environmental Values, 12:1, 2003, 129-131.

Review of Warwick Fox, ed., Ethics and the Built Environment in Environmental Values, 11:4, 2002, 509-511.

Review of Joseph Margolis, What, After All, Is a Work of Art? in Philosophical Quarterly, 51:2, 2001, 136-138.

Review of Robert Hopkins, Picture, Image and Experience in Philosophical Books, 41:2, 2000, 140-142.

Review of Robert Elliot, Faking Nature, in ECOS, 1998.

Review of Susan Feagin, Reading with Feeling, in Philosophical Books, 38:4, 1997, 284-286.

Review of Ossi Naukkarinen and Olli Immonen, eds. Art and Beyond: Finnish Approaches to Aesthetics, translated into Finnish for Synteesi, vol. 3, 1996, 103-104.

Departmental Papers and Research Reports

Brady, E., “Sublime Attachment: Imagination, Feeling and Respect for Nature,” Thingmount Series of Working Papers on the Philosophy of Conservation (Lancaster University, 1998, ISSN: 1362-7066).

Brady, E., Thingmount Working Papers Series on the Philosophy of Conservation, vol. II (Lancaster University, 1999, ISSN: 1362-7066). I edited a selection of papers from the conference “Aesthetic Knowledge and a Sense of Place” for this series.

Brady, E. and Mary Grant, “Aesthetic Value in UK Environmental Conservation,” Lancaster University, 2001.

Research Projects

“Aesthetic Value in UK Conservation,” 2000-2001. Funded by Lancaster University Small Grant Scheme. Head of project with research assistant.

“Humans in Nature: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape,”1999-2000. Funded by British Council grant. Joint co-ordinator with Sven Arntzen, Telemark College, Norway.

“Aesthetics in Environmental Management,” 1996-1999. Funded by British Council and Finnish Institute grants. Joint co-ordinator, with Pauline von Bonsdorff, University of Helsinki.

Media

"What is Imagination?," interview for BBC Radio 4, ‘The Afternoon Shift,’ February 19th, 1998.


Conference Papers

Invited Papers

“The Ontology of Environmental and Land Art”, Nature in the Kingdom of Ends conference,
Iceland, June, 2005.

“Agricultural Landscapes and the Human-Nature Relationship,” Fifth International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics: The Aesthetics of Agriculture, Finland, August 2003.

“Between Nature and Art: Aesthetic Appreciation of Cultural Environments,” International Society for Environmental Ethics, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Conference, 2002.

“Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Judgement,” for Humans in Nature: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape Conference, Telemark, Norway, February 2000.

“Justifying Aesthetic Judgments of Nature,” Aesthetic Value and the Environment Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 1997.

“Aesthetic Integrity and the Coastal Environment,” Coastal Aesthetics Conference,
Newport, USA, August 1997 (keynote speaker).

“Aesthetics in Ecological Integrity,” Global Integrity Conference, Cortona, Italy, June 1997.

“Aesthetic Integrity and the Natural Environment,” Environmental PhilosophyConference,
Mukkula, Finland, May 1997.

Contributed Papers

“Aesthetic Value of Nature and the Kantian Sublime,” American Society of Aesthetics, Pacific Division conference, March 2004.

“The Aesthetics of Agricultural Landscapes and the Relationship Between Humans and Nature,” American Society of Aesthetics National Meeting, San Francisco, October 2003.

“Expressive Qualities in Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature,” British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Oxford, England, September 2002.

“Difficult Aesthetic Appreciation: The Case of Topiary,” (based on a paper with Isis Brook), for American Society of Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2001.

“The Question of Aesthetic Relevance in Landscape Descriptions,” American Society of Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Reno, USA, October 2000.

“Aesthetic Appreciation as Performance,” Between Nature Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, July 2000.

“Aesthetics, Ethics and the Natural Environment: Harmony and Conflict,” Environmental Values Conference, Cork, Ireland, June 2000; and British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Oxford, England, September 2000.

“The Aesthetic Character of Landscapes,” Nordic Society of Aesthetics Conference, Turku, Finland; and the International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Hartford, USA, May 1999.

“Melancholy as an Aesthetic Emotion,” with Arto Haapala, XIVth International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1998.

“Sublime Attachment: Imagination, Feeling and Respect for Nature,” XIVth International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1998.

“Imagination and Feeling in the Kantian Sublime,” for Interrogating Images, the International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Irvine, California, May 1998.

“Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes,” for Society for Philosophy and Geography, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Conference, Philadelphia, December 1997.

“The City in Aesthetic Imagination,” The City as Cultural Metaphor Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1996.

“Disinterestedness,” The End of Nature Conservation? Conference, Ambleside, England, 1995.

“Imagination and Natural Beauty,” XIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Lahti,
Finland, 1995.

“Natural Generativity and Pictorial Experience,” joint conference of British Society of Aesthetics and Scandinavian Society of Aesthetics, Durham, England, 1992.

 

Department of Philosophy

Brooklyn College, City University of New York