## CONTRIBUTORS

María  José  Alcaraz  is  Associate  Professor  at  the  Department  of Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia. Her research centers on aesthetics  and  art  theory.  She  has  especially  focused  on  the  nature of  aesthetic  justification  and  rationality,  the  relationship  between aesthetics and other values, and on the cognitive value of fiction.

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Humour: A Very Short Introduction.

Arto  Haapala  is  Professor  of  Aesthetics  in  the  Department  of Philosophy,  History,  Culture  and  Art  Studies  at  Helsinki  University and Editor in chief of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology.

Mathias Hein Jessen is a postdoc at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, and part of the CISTAS-project (Civil Society in the Shadow of the State - http://cistas.dk/). He holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Philosophy from CBS and an MA and PhD in The History of Ideas from Aarhus University.

Nikos  Papastergiadis  is  Professor  in  the  School  of  Culture  and Communication, University  of  Melbourne.  His  most  recent  books include Cosmopolitanism and Culture, 2012, and Ambient Screens, 2016.

Trine  Friis  Sørensen  is  a  curator  and  a  postdoc  researcher  at Kunsthal Aarhus and Aarhus University (funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation). She earned her PhD from University of Copenhagen with the thesis We Can (Not) Work It Out: A Curatorial Inquiry into the Danish Radio Archive (2015). In  addition to curating exhibitions in Denmark and abroad, she was co-editor of the anthology A  Feast Is… (2013), and has published in artistic and academic publications, most recently MASKA Performing Arts Journal.

Zoltán  Somhegyi  is  a  Hungarian  art  historian,  holding  a  PhD  in aesthetics,  and  is  working  as  an  Assistant  Professor  at  the  College of  Fine  Arts  and  Design  at  the  University  of  Sharjah,  UAE.  As  a researcher, he is specialised in 18 th -19 th   century art and theory, and besides that his fields of interest are contemporary fine arts and art criticism. He is the Secretary General of the International Association for Aesthetics. www.zoltansomhegyi.com