Allen.Carlson@ualberta.ca 
Assiniboia Hall 2-46
phone 780.492.5707
fax 780.492.9160 

Professor Emeritus and Contract Instructor

PhD (1971), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests
Aesthetics, environmental philosophy, epistemology.

Selected Recent Publications

Functional Beauty (with G. Parsons) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

 

Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

 

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, ed. (with S. Lintott) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

"Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment," in Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Third Edition, ed. A. Neill and A. Ridley (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 157-171 (reprinted from Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence, Second Edition, ed. S. Armstrong and R. Botzler (New York: McGraw Hill, 1998).

"Environmental Aesthetics," in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. E. N. Zalta (Stanford: SEP, 2007)  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/environmental-aesthetics/

"Appreciation and the Natural Environment," in Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology, ed. S. M. Cahn and A. Meskin (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) (reprinted from  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (1979)).  

"The Requirements for an Adequate Aesthetics of Nature, "Environmental Philosophy 4 (2007): 1-12.

"Arnold Berleant's Environmental Aesthetics," Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (2007): 217-225.

The Aesthetics of Human Environments, ed. (with A. Berleant) (Peterborough: Broadview, 2007).

"Tarkasteluun kasvattaminen: mikä on olennaista maisemassa?" ("Aesthetic Experience: What is Relevant to Landscape?") trans. T. Nuopponen, in Maiseman kanssa kasvokkain (Face to Face with the Landscape), ed. Y. Sepänmaa, L. Heikkilä-Palo, and V. Kaukio (Helsinki: Maahenki Oy, 2007), pp. 92-107.

"'We see beauty now where we could not see it before': Rolston's Aesthetics of Nature." in Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, ed. C. Preston and W. Ouderkirk (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006) pp. 103-124.

"Aesthetics and Environment," British Journal of Aesthetics 46 (2006): 416-427. 

"The Aesthetic Appreciation of Architecture under Different Conceptions of the Environment," Journal of Aesthetic Education 40 (2006): 77-88.

"Budd and Brady on the Aesthetics of Nature," Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005): 107-114.

"Scientific Representations of Natural Landscapes and Appropriate Aesthetic Appreciation," Rivista di Estetica (Review of Aesthetics) 29 (2005): 41-51.

 

"Education for Appreciation: What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?" in The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, ed. A. Light and J. M. Smith (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005) (reprinted from Journal of Aesthetic Education 35 (2001)).

"Viljelysmaisemien Esteettinen Arvo Ja Touttavuus" ("Productivity and the Aesthetic Value of Agricultural Landscapes), Pellossa Perihopeat (Fortune in the Field) ed. Y. Sepänmaa, L. Heikkilä-Palo (Helsinki: Maahenki Oy, 2005), pp. 52-61.

"New Formalism and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature" (with G. Parsons), Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (2004): 363-376.

The Aesthetics of Natural Environments, ed. (with A. Berleant) (Peterborough: Broadview, 2004).

"Appreciation and the Natural Environment," in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition, ed. P. Lamarque and S. H. Olsen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 535-542 (reprinted from Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (1979)). 

"Environmental Aesthetics," in Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Second Edition, ed. B. Gaut and D. Lopes (London: Routledge, 2004).

"Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment," in Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, Second Edition, ed. D. Goldblatt and L. B. Brown (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2004), pp. 526-533 (reprinted from Aesthetics, ed. S. Feagin and P. Maynard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)).

"Nature Appreciation and the Question of Aesthetic Relevance," in Environment and the Arts, ed., A. Berleant (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), pp. 62-75.

"Hargrove, Positive Aesthetics, and Indifferent Creativity," Philosophy and Geography 5 (2002): 224-234.

"Environmental Aesthetics," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, ed. E. Craig (London: Routledge, 2002) www.rep.routledge.com/views/home/html.

"Aesthetic Preferences for Sustainable Landscapes: Seeing and Knowing," in Forests and Landscapes: Linking Ecology, Sustainability and Aesthetics, ed. S. Sheppard and H. Harshaw (New York: CAB International, 2001), pp. 31-41.

"Heyd and Newman on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature," AE: Canadian Aesthetics Journal/ Revue canadienne d'esthetique (2001) www.uqtr.uquebec.ca/AE/Vol_6/index.html

"Education for Appreciation: What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?" Journal of Aesthetic Education 35 (2001): 97-112.

"On Aesthetically Appreciating Human Environments," Philosophy and Geography 4 (2001): 9-24.

Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture (London: Routledge, 2000).