Panos Paris

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I work in aesthetics, ethics, and the intersection between these realms of value. I've published articles on beauty, including the notion of moral beauty, the ethical criticism of art, the concept of ugliness, and the situationist debate in moral psychology. Currently, I am concentrating on beauty, as a way into thinking about value (in particular valuing and the experience of value) more generally.

I joined Cardiff as a Lecturer in 2019, upon completing my PhD in philosophy at the University of St Andrews (2017), and working as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (2018), an Associate Tutor at Birkbeck College, University of London (2018-9), and an Associate Lecturer at the University of York (2019). In August 2023, I was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

I am a Trustee of the British Society of Aesthetics, a co-founder and former organiser of the Scottish Aesthetics Forum, a co-founder and co-director of the newly-formed Aesthetics & Ethics Research Group, and, most recently, a co-founder and organiser of the Welsh Aesthetics Forum / Fforwm Estheteg Cymru.
Supervisors: Professor Berys Gaut and Professor Sarah Broadie

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The Empirical Case for Moral Beauty

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dec 11, 2017

ABSTRACT Although formative of modern value theory, the moral beauty view—which states that moral... more ABSTRACT Although formative of modern value theory, the moral beauty view—which states that moral virtue is beautiful and moral vice is ugly—is now mostly neglected by (analytic) philosophers. The two contemporary defences of the view mostly capitalize on its intuitive attractiveness, but to little avail: such considerations hardly convince sceptics of what is nowadays a rather unpopular view. Historically, the view was supported by thought experiments; and although these greatly increase its plausibility, they also raise empirical questions, which they leave unanswered. Here, I offer a novel defence of the moral beauty view, capitalizing on empirical evidence and arguing via an inference to the best explanation.

Delineating beauty: On form and the boundaries of the aesthetic

Ratio, Aug 3, 2023

Philosophical aesthetics has recently been expanding its purview—with exciting work on everyday a... more Philosophical aesthetics has recently been expanding its purview—with exciting work on everyday aesthetics, somaesthetics, gustatory aesthetics, and the aesthetics of imperceptibilia like mathematics and human character—reclaiming territory that was lost during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the discipline begun concentrating almost exclusively on the philosophy of art and restricted the aesthetic realm to the distally perceptible. Yet there remains considerable reluctance towards acknowledging the aesthetic character of many of these objects. This raises an important question—partly made salient again by the ongoing expansion of the aesthetic domain, and partly by the fact that many still seem resistant to this aesthetic diversification—which aestheticians seem to avoid: what, if anything, constrains the scope of beauty or the aesthetic? I argue that form, construed as comprising a degree, however minimal, of experienceable complexity, is necessary and sufficient for an object's candidature for the possession of aesthetic properties. Such a condition serves to discriminate between attempts to expand the scope of the aesthetic that are legitimate and those that are not. If correct, my view suggests that the aesthetic realm, though not limitless, is very broad indeed—but this, I think, is as it should be.

James Harold, "Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticism of Artwork

Philosophy in review, Jan 6, 2022

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