Prof Berys Gaut

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

bng@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

His research interests include: aesthetics, especially its relation to ethics; the philosophy of creativity; the philosophy of film and film theory; philosophy for children; and moral theory.

He is a past President of the British Society of Aesthetics and an Editorial Consultant to The British Journal of Aesthetics. He has held several research awards, including most recently a two-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

He the author of two monographs, Art, Emotion and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2007) and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a new monograph on creativity.

Selected publications

• Art, Emotion and Ethics

  Gaut, B., 2007, Oxford University Press. 269 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

  Gaut, B., 2010, Cambridge University Press. 337 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Creativity and philosophy

  Gaut, B. N. (Editor) & Kieran, M. (Editor), 6 Mar 2018, London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 394 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The value of creativity

  Gaut, B. N., 6 Mar 2018, Creativity and Philosophy. Gaut, B. & Kieran, M. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 124-139

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide

  Gaut, B. & Gaut, M., 19 Aug 2011, London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 128 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Cinematic art and technology

  Gaut, B., 2016, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film. Thomson-Jones, K. (ed.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 17-35 18 p. (Current Controversies in Philosophy).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Mixed motivations: Creativity as a virtue

  Gaut, B., Oct 2014, In: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. 75, p. 183-202 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Educating for creativity

  Gaut, B., 29 May 2014, The Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays. Paul, E. S. & Kaufman, S. B. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 265-287 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Creativity and Imagination

  Gaut, B., 2003, The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics. Gaut, B. & Livingston, P. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 148-173

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'Art' as a Cluster Concept

  Gaut, B. & Carroll, N. (Editor), 2000

  Research output: Other contribution

 

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