Curriculum Vitae
September 2013

John Howell Brown

I. Education

B.A., Princeton University, 1952
M.A., Princeton University, 1957
Ph. D., Princeton University, 1959

II. Employment

July, 2002 University of Maryland, Associate Professor Emeritus
1967-2002, University of Maryland, Associate Professor
1964-67, University of Maryland, Assistant Professor
1963-64, University of Maryland, Visiting Assistant Lecturer
1962-63, Washington State University, Assistant Professor
1961 Spring semester, Temple University, Visiting Lecturer
1961-62, Research Foundation in the Philosophy of Science, Princeton, N.J.
1959-61, Princeton University, Instructor
1957-59, The Pennsylvania State University, Instructor

III. Administrative Experience

Acting Chair, Philosophy, University of Maryland, 1972-73 and 1979-80
Chair, Human Relations Committee, UMCP, 1972-73
Chair, General Committee on University Affairs, UMCP, 1974-75

IV. Philosophical Publications

“Seeing Things in Pictures” in Catharine Abell and Katerina Bantinaki, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Decodificare lo spazio pittorico di Giotto: uno studio di estetica che utilizza le nuove tecnologie,” online at http://www.cultor.org/Estetica/Estetica.html. 2010.  Italian translation  of parts of “Unscrambling Giotto’s Space,” the full version of which is posted on my website).

“Beauty” and “Abstract Art” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on-line edition, 2009.  Updated versions of the 1998 articles.

“Connoisseurship: Conceptual and Epistemological Fundamentals,” in Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting, Jason Kuo, ed., Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2008.

"Beauty" and “Abstract Art" in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998.

Review of T.S.Eliot, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, The Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1967) 74-76.

"The Logic of the Euthyphro 10A-11B," The Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1964), 1-13.

V. Papers presented at conferences, 2000-present
“The Artistic Potential of Interactive Storytelling,” The Canadian Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2013.
“The Allure of Free Brushwork: the case of Frans Hals,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2012.
Comments on Bradley Erlicker, “The Visual Elements of Novels,”  Eastern Division, American Society for Aesthetics, 2012.
“Is Purely Mathematical Beauty Aesthetic?”  Canadian Society for Aesthetics,  annual meeting, 2011.
Comments on Gabriel Greenberg, “The Geometrical Projection Theory of Depiction,” Eastern Division, American Society for Aesthetics, 2011.
“Free Beauty in Nature,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2010.
“Natural Ugliness,” Canadian Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2010.
“The Functionality of Art,” American Society of Aesthetics Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, annual meeting, 2010.
“The Beauty of Functionality in Natural Organisms,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2009; also Canadian Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2009.
"Experiencing the Picture, Experiencing the Subject,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2008.
“Responsive Cohesion and the Value of Wild Nature,” Canadian Society for Aesthetics,  annual meeting, 2008.
“The Illusions in the Picture,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2007.
“Uniformity, Variety, and the Beauty of Polygons,” American Society of Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2006.
“Uniformity and Variety Revisited.” American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, annual meeting, 2006.
“How Analogous are Aesthetic to Sensory Properties?” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2005.
“Aesthetic Properties as Value-Justifying,” American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, annual meeting, 2005.
Comments on Bence Nanay, “Is Twofoldness Necessary for Representational Seeing?” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2004.
“How to Look at a Giotto,” American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, 2004; also at (Re)Discovering Aesthetics, University College Cork, 2004.
“The Role of Monocular Viewing in Pictorial Appreciation,” American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2003.
“Getting Deeper into Pictures via Digital Transformation: a Tale of Two Horizons,” School of the Visual Arts, New York, 2003.
AMondrian=s Balance,@ American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2002.
ADigital Technology in the Service of Aesthetic Analysis and Theory,@ American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, annual meeting, 2001.
Comments on Rachel Zuckert, AKant=s Formalist Theory of Pleasure,@ and Anne Eaton, ACultivation and the Autonomy of Taste in Kant=s Third Critique,@ American Society for Aesthetics, annual meeting, 2000.

VI. Locally produced philosophical texts (readings, annotations, introductions, commentary)

Theories of Beauty from Plato to the Present, text for PHIL 332, 1988-present.
The Development of the Concept of Art, text for PHIL 331, 1987-.
Theories of the Aesthetic, text for PHIL 431, 1995-.
Criteria of Criticism, text for PHIL 431, 1995-.
Reading Pictures, text for PHIL 308P, 1999, 2001, 2002.

VII. Refereeing for academic journals
Mind  
Philosophical Studies
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

John H. Brown
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Department of Philosophy
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