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Author of Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? and Aesthetics and Morality, Elisabeth Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Uppsala, and Head of the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of non-perceptual objects, aesthetic cognitivism, the philosophy of conceptual art and the ethics and aesthetics of cultural heritage.

Author of Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? and Aesthetics and Morality, Elisabeth Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Uppsala, and Head of the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of non-perceptual objects, aesthetic cognitivism, the philosophy of conceptual art and the ethics and aesthetics of cultural heritage.

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