Monroe Curtis Beardsley (/ˈbɪərdzli/ BEERDZ-lee; December 10, 1915 – September 18, 1985) was an American philosopher of art.
Beardsley was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University (B.A.
[1] His wife and occasional coauthor, Elizabeth Lane Beardsley, was also a philosopher at Temple.
[4] He also edited a well-regarded survey anthology of philosophy, The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche.
[6] He and his wife were over-all series editors for Prentice-Hall's "Foundations of Philosophy," a series of textbooks on different fields within philosophy, written in most cases by leading scholars in those fields.