Philosopher

Frank Sibley (philosopher)

Overview

Frank Noel Sibley (28 February 1923, London – 18 February 1996, Lancaster, Lancashire) was a British philosopher who worked mainly in the field of aesthetics. He held the first Chair of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Sibley is best known for his 1959 paper "Aesthetic Concepts" (Philosophical Review, 68), and for "Seeking, Scrutinizing and Seeing" (Mind, 64, 1954). Both papers (and some others) have been anthologized.

Sibley has been considered an important contributor to aesthetics in the analytical tradition. His collected papers, including some posthumous, were published in 2001 as Approach To Aesthetics, together with a companion volume of critical and evaluative essays on his work.

He was the uncle of the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley.

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Philosophers who discussed Frank Sibley (philosopher)

• Kendall Walton

Ideas Frank Sibley (philosopher) discusses

• Gilbert Ryle
• Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy of perception
• Peter Geach
• Mind (journal)
• Philosophy of mind
• Geoffrey Warnock
• British Journal of Aesthetics

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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