George Dickie (philosopher)

George Thomas Dickie (12 August 1926 – March 24, 2020) was an American philosopher.

He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago.

[2] His specialities included aesthetics, philosophy of art, and Eighteenth Century theories of taste.

One of his more influential works is The Century of Taste (1996), an inquiry into several eighteenth-century philosophers' treatments of the subject.

The bulk of the work is devoted to championing David Hume's treatment of the subject over that of Immanuel Kant.