Andrew Kania, Ph.D.
- Professor , Philosophy
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Andrew Kania is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, where his principal research is in the philosophy of music, film, and literature. He is the author of Philosophy of Western Music: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2020); co-author of the sixth edition of Writing Philosophy Papers (Routledge 2025); editor of Memento (Routledge, Philosophers on Film series, 2009); and co-editor, with Theodore Gracyk, of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (2011).
- Ph.D. - University of Maryland, College Park
- M.A. (first class honors) - University of Auckland
- B.A. - University of Auckland
- Philosophy of Western Music: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2020) <https://www.routledge.com/Philosophy-of-Western-Music-A-Contemporary-Introduction>
- “Theorizing Covers” British Journal of Aesthetics. <https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaf053>
- “Musical Meaning and Authentic Work-Performance: Three Dilemmas for the Interpretive Authenticist” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 83 (2025): 128-40. <https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpaf005>
- Writing Philosophy Papers, co-authored with Zachary Seech. Sixth edition (Routledge, 2025). <https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003512318>
- “The Philosophy of Music” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/music/>
Philosophy of music, literature, and film
- Philosophy of Music
- Philosophy of Film & Videogames
- Philosophy of Literature
- Philosophy of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- Metaphysics
- Aesthetics
Dr. Kania engages the community in philosophical discussions about music through events such as visits to local middle- and high-school music classes, and his “Thinking and Drinking” series at the Pearl. In 2020-21 he was appointed a Trinity University Public Humanities Fellow.
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