Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the Colombian journal Cuadernos de musica, artes visuales y artes escenicas. He edited the Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language (1997) and (with Stein Haugom Olsen) Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2003).