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    The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…

A new poll: who are the best Anglophone philosphers of art/aestheticians since 1945?

As with the prior polls, this new one only includes, among the living philosophers of art, those who are sixty or older in 2016, thus omitting a number of well-known contemporaries like Berys Gaut, Dominic Lopes, and Daniel Jacobson.  Have fun, and please only vote if you work in or are a serious reader of aesthetics and the philosophy of the arts (including literature, theater, painting, film etc.).

UPDATE:  Two omissions:  Irving Singer, Paul Ziff.  Ziff, I imagine, might have made the top 20.

ALSO:  Paisley Livingston, Terry Diffey, Paul Crowther, Robert Kraut.

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