Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is a philosopher at New York University who works mostly in the philosophy of mind and aesthetics. He’s recently finished a book, The Profile of Imagining (forthcoming, OUP), on the sensory imagination, relating it to other forms of imagining, to perception and to episodic memory. Previously, he’s published on pictorial representation and picture perception (the subject of Picture, Image and Experience, CUP 1998), on other topics central to the philosophy of the visual arts, including the aesthetics of sculpture, photography, painting and film; and on the epistemology and metaphysical status of aesthetic and moral judgement. 

Before NYU, Rob taught at the University of Sheffield and the University of Birmingham. He has been Honorary Secretary of the Mind Association, President of the European Society for Aesthetics, and a Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. In 2014-5 he ran a research project, funded by the Templeton Foundation, on the relations between historical and aesthetic understanding.