The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I: Artforms, II: History, III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address, IV: Art and Science, V: Comparisons among the Arts, VI: Questions of Value, VII: Philosophers of Art, VIII: Institutional Questions

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the author of 19 books, editor or coeditor of eight volumes, a former journalist, and the author of five documentaries.

Jonathan Gilmore is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY. He is coeditor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (2020), which was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics.

Part I: Artforms Part II: History Part III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address Part IV: Art and Science Part V: Comparisons among the Arts Part VI: Questions of Value Part VII: Philosophers of Art Part VIII: Institutional Questions