Education:
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center - 2005 (Philosophy)
M.F.A., Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts - 1981 (Painting / Installations)
B.A., University of Kansas - 1977 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Aesthetics is the study of the philosophy of art. Within that are many subcategories, but Dena Shottenkirk's interests lie in how art functions as a form of knowledge and how it conveys meaning. Epistemology is the philosophical study of how we know the world; it concerns itself with questions of how knowledge is processed by us and in what form that is knowledge encapsulated.
Books and Publications
Knowledge, Reality, and Values. Edited by Dena Shottenkirk and Jamie Lindsay
(U.S.: Cognella Press, 2013).
(Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013
Shottenkirk, Dena and Anjan Chatterjee. "Those Dumb Artists!" in Structural Analysis (NY: Novascience, 2010). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2010
Cover Up the Dirty Parts! Funding, Fighting and the First Amendment. Cambridge Scholars Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2009
Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman. Springer. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2009
Creative Work
POPc (Philosophers' Ontological Party club) Conversations at Happy Fun Hideaway and Flowers For All Ocassions (both part of Secret Robot). Along with Brooklyn College students, x-students, and adjunct faculty, Prof. Shottenkirk organized a weekly series (from November 2015 - April 2016) of one-on-one conversations on the topic of Free Speech. The conversation partner then posted some of their thoughts on the web forum set up for this purpose (http://denashottenkirk.com/the-system-project/system-project-forum/). This is part of a larger project that re-constructs the process of social consensus, using Shottenkirk's book/artworks as the input, and the community's thoughts as the output. 2015
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Looking at Art as an Instance of Knowledge-How" at Pragmatism and the Brain Conference, University of North Carolina. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Intentions: Art as a Social Fact" (CHiPS (University of the West Indies): "Conversations XI: Identity and Identities. (Paper accepted, but not delivered as conference was cancelled)
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Citizen as Audience" at CONTEMP ART Istanbul, Spring 2013 (paper accepted but undelivered) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Pleasure in Art: The Epistemological Function in Visual Art" at CHiPS (University of the West Indies): Conversations XI: Grounding Aesthetics. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Response to Arnold Cusmariu "Baudelaire's Critique of Sculpture" at American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
American Soceity for Aesthetics. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Response to Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) "Pictorial Semantics" at American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Conference, Spring 2010. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Response to Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA) ?Pictorial Semantics? at American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Conference, Spring 2010. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
