DOMINIC McIVER LOPES DLitt, FRSC University Killam Professor
Department of Philosophy University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1		dom.lopes@icloud.com @domlopes.bsky.social https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7599-974X

Dominic Lopes is University Killam Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. A member of the UBC aesthetics group, he has worked on pictorial representation; the aesthetic and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of art and its value; the ontology of art; computer art and new art forms; aesthetic value; and the history of aesthetics in Europe and Asia. Lopes's most recent books are Aesthetic Injustice, just out with Oxford University Press, an edition of Bernard Bolzano's Essays on Beauty and the Arts, published by Hackett, and The Geography of Taste with Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay. His next project is a book entitled Pluralism and Its Discontents: Episodes in the History of Aesthetics. Lopes is past chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association, past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics, associate editor of Ergo, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, Cognitive Semiotics, and Imaginations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been a Canada Council Killam Research Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the National Humanities Center, Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor at the University of Warwick. This year he is Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the University of Coimbra. He has won two teaching awards, a Philosophical Quarterly essay prize, a Canadian Philosophy Association essay prize, the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize, the UBC Killam Research Prize, and the APA's Quinn Prize for "service to philosophy and philosophers." He was recently interviewed (in English) by Iran Daily and by Brandon Polite on his YouTube channel, Philosophers Discussing Art.

courses I'm on sabbatical in 2025–26 talks Shaftesbury on Beauty and the Self, University of Coimbra, December 15, 2025 How to Think about Aesthetic Value in the Twenty-first Century, Architecture Biennel, Coimbra, January 12, 2025 Aesthetic Injustice and the Case of Cultural Appropriation, University of Coimbra, January 19, 2025 Aesthetic Pluralism: A Historical Approach, University of Coimbra, January 28, 2025 AI Art and Artists: What They Are, What They Could Be, What They Should Be    University of Minho, February 5, 2026    University of Porto, February 6, 2026    University of Lisbon, February 13, 2026    Gulbenkian Lecture, University of Coimbra, February 27, 2026 Authors-Meet-Critics, Aesthetic Injustice, American Society for Aesthetics, Salt Lake City, November 18–21, 2026 Immersion, Distance, Disinterest, and Social Media, Conference on Immersion and Representation, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, November 26–27, 2026 Keynote Lecture TBA, Beyond Art and the Arts, University of Rouen, November 30, 2026 publications One moment, publications loading ... (or view them here)