Meredith Drees Named ASA-sponsored Aesthetics Speaker for Rutgers Institute

Meredith Trexler Drees will be the ASA-sponsored speaker at the 2022 Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. Assistant Professor and Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Kansas Wesleyan University, Drees received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Kansas and her BA in Philosophy at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas.

She was selected by the Institute Director from an exceptionally strong field of candidates who applied to ASA for this appointment. Her presentation will be on "Aesthetic Experience and Moral Vision in Plato, Kant, and Murdoch: Looking Good/Being Good." 

For more information about Professor Drees: https://www.kwu.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/dr-meredith-trexler-drees/

This is the eighth year that ASA has sponsored aesthetics speakers at the Rutgers Summer Institute.  ASA has also sponsored aesthetics speakers at the Brown University Summer Immersion Institute in Philosophy and the Summer Program for the Advancement of Women in Philosophy (SPAWP) at UC San Diego. 

All ASA members were eligible to apply for these appointments. The speakers at the summer institutes are selected by institute directors from recommendations made by a review committee of senior ASA members. In previous years, many ASA members have been sponsored by ASA to make presentations on aesthetics at several summer institutes: Sondra Bacharach, Julianne Chung, A.W. Eaton, Jane Forsey, James B. Haile, III, Alexandra King, Shen-Li Liao, Christy Mag Uidhir, Anna Ribeiro, Elizabeth Scarbrough, Mary Beth Willard, and Sarah Worth.