Professor Carolyn Korsmeyer

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; she is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Her special areas of study are aesthetics and emotion theory, and her current research concerns genuineness and the sense of touch. She is the author of four books and editor of six and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books. The most relevant book to mention for this proposal is Making Sense of Taste:...See more

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; she is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Her special areas of study are aesthetics and emotion theory, and her current research concerns genuineness and the sense of touch. She is the author of four books and editor of six and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books. The most relevant book to mention for this proposal is Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1999). A full list of her books appears on her website, http://www.buffalo.edu/~ckors. See less