James Harold

James Harold is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, and the author of Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticism of Artworks (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the former Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. He has published widely in ethics and aesthetics, with a focus on imaginative engagement with artworks, audience engagement and interpretation, meta-ethics and meta-aesthetics, and the philosophies of ancient Greece and pre-Han China.

James Harold is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, and the author of Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticism of Artworks (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the former Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. He has published widely in ethics and aesthetics, with a focus on imaginative engagement with artworks, audience engagement and interpretation, meta-ethics and meta-aesthetics, and the philosophies of ancient Greece and pre-Han China. See less