Carolyn Korsmeyer
Research Professor
Philosophy Department
University at Buffalo

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Philosophy Department
110 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, 14260, USA
email: ckors (at) buffalo (dot) edu

My research areas include aesthetics and emotion theory, and I also have a special interest in the  senses that have been traditionally neglected by philosophy: taste and touch. Several of the publications listed under "Books" address taste, food, disgust, and related subjects. Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics concerns the appeal of disgust when it is aroused by works of art (and even on occasion by foods). Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy explores the gustatory sense and its aesthetic features. I also analyze gender and its influence on philosophical ideas in the book Gender and Aesthetics.  My current book project, Things: In Touch with the Past, concerns the experience of "genuine" or "real" things, and the ways that artifacts can deliver encounters with times gone by. This book should be out from Oxford University Press in 2018. A related project is an anthology entitled Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials: Philosophical Perspectives on Artifact and Memory, which I'm co-editing with Jeanette Bicknell and Jennifer Judkins.
For the books I've written and for edited collections, click on "Books".
For a few articles related to these subjects, click on "Articles."
For my excursions into nonacademic writing, click on "Fiction."

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