Jesse Prinz
City University of New York

Jesse Prinz is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy and director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and has authored several books, among others Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (2002), Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004), The Emotional Construction of Morals (2007), Beyond Human Nature (2012), and over 100 articles, addressing such topics as emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness. Much of his work in these areas has been a defense of empiricism against psychological nativism, and he situates his work as in the naturalistic tradition. Prinz is also an advocate of experimental philosophy. He is currently working on a book entitled Works of Wonder: The Psychology and Ontology of Art (OUP, forthcoming).

Gerard Vilar
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

His academic career began at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, later as Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he is Professor since 2002. He has been visiting professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research, UNAM in Mexico, at the Institut für Philosophie of the Universität Potsdam, and in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is director of the journal of Aesthetics Disturbis since 2007 and coordinator of the Master of Aesthetics and Art Theory: Thinking Contemporary art today (UAB-Fundació Joan Miró, Picasso Museum). From 1995-2009 he directed the Phlilosophy Journal Enrahonar.