Congratulations to the 2026 Danto Award Winner: Eastern APA ASA Sessions

Congratulations to the 2026 winner of the Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize, Nick Riggle (University of San Diego), for his paper “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing.”

Congratulations, also, to this year's Danto Honorable Mention recipient, James Young (University of Victoria), for his paper “The Myth of the Aesthetic.”

For more information about the Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics prize, which is awarded in even-numbered years in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, see:

https://www.apaonline.org/page/danto and https://aesthetics-online.org/page/DantoPrize.

2026 Eastern Division APA

Nick Riggle will be presenting his prize-winning work, with commentary by ASA members, at the 2026 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA in the following session:

Thursday, January 8: 11:00 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. 

6N. APA Committee Session: Arthur Danto/American Society for
Aesthetics Prize Symposium

Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and
Research; co-sponsored by American Society for Aesthetics

Chair: Jochen Bojanowski (University of Illinois)

Speaker: Nick Riggle (University of San Diego)
“Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing”

Commentators: Robbie Kubala (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College)

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Thank you to David Friedell (Union College) who has organized this year's ASA Special Session for the Eastern Division APA.  If you are at the meeting, don't miss this author-meets-critics panel!

Wednesday, January 7: 4:00 - 5:50 p.m.

G3C. American Society for Aesthetics

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Robert Gooding-Williams, Democracy
and Beauty

Chair: David J. Friedell (Union College)

Author: Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University)

Speakers: Elvira Basevich (University of California, Davis)
J. Reid Miller (Haverford College)
Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech)