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  • Andrew Kania, Ph.D.

    • Professor , Philosophy
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  • Andrew Kania is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio. 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), the editor of Memento (in Routledge’s series Philosophers on Film; 2009), and co-editor 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>
    • “The Philosophy of Music” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/music/>
    • “Why Gamers Are Not Performers,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2018): 187-99. <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jaac.12451>
    • “Why Gamers Are Not Narrators,” in The Aesthetics of Videogames, ed. Jon Robson & Grant Tavinor. (Routledge, 2018), pp. 128-45. <https://www.routledge.com/The-Aesthetics-of-Videogames/Robson-Tavinor/p/book/9781138629585>
    • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, co-edited with Theodore Gracyk (Routledge, 2011). <https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Philosophy-and-Music/Gracyk-Kania/p/book/9780415858397>
    • Memento (Routledge "Philosophers on Film" series, 2009). <https://www.routledge.com/Memento/Kania/p/book/9780415774741>

    Philosophy of music, literature, and film

    • Philosophy of Music
    • Philosophy of Film & Videogames
    • Philosophy of Literature
    • Philosophy of Gender
    • 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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