Ph.D. Philosophy, Central European University (CEU), Vienna, Austria  

My research reflects overlapping interests in Kant’s philosophy, philosophy of art, contemporary aesthetics, epistemology and philosophy of mind. I have recently published a book on the epistemic value of artworks in light of Kant’s theory of taste. I am currently working on a new book-length project that will examine the effect narrative artworks have on cultivating self-knowledge. Specifically, I intend to show that our engagement with works of art gives us a unique opportunity to adopt a dual (first and third-person) perspective on the self, which is argued recently by psychologists and philosophers of mind to be necessary for obtaining the kind of self-knowledge that leads to self-development, i.e., therapeutic self-knowledge. 

• Kant’s Aesthetic Cognitivism: The Value of Art. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2023). 

•  Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination: An Approach to Kant’s Aesthetics. New York: Springer International Publishing (2015). 

• “Therapeutic Self-knowledge in Narrative Art.” The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 51 (1), pp. 56-71 (2021). 

• “Reflective and Non-reflective Aesthetic Ideas in Kant’s Theory of Art.” The British Journal of Aesthetics, 61(1), pp. 1-16 (2021). 

• “Kant’s Theory of Laughter.” Debates in Aesthetics, 16 (1), pp. 49-62 (2021). 

•  “Narrative Simulation as a Route to Self-knowledge and Self-development.” Aesthetic Investigations, 3 (1), pp. 83-101 (2019). 

• “Cognitive Interpretation of Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Ideas.” Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, 56 (12), pp. 48-64 (2019). 

• “Aesthetic Representation of Purposiveness and the Concept of Beauty in Kant’s Aesthetics: The Solution of the ‘Everything is Beautiful’ Problem.” Philosophical Inquiries, 4 (2), pp. 69-88 (2016). 

•  “The Sublime, Ugliness and Contemporary Art: A Kantian Perspective.” Con-Textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 1 (1), pp. 113-139 (2015). 

•  “Kant and the Problem of Pure Judgments of Ugliness.” Kant Studies Online, pp. 5 102-143 (2013). 

• “Emancipation of the Image in Immanuel Kant.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies, edited by Kresimir Purgar, 93-107. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2021).