Professor, Philosophy

Email

Preferred: thomas.leddy@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-4528

Office Hours

MW 12:00-1:00, M 5:00-5:45, W 3:00-4:00 and by appointment.

MW 12:00-1:00, W 5:00-5:45, M 3:00-4:00, and by appointment

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Boston Univ, 1983

Bio

Tom Leddy has been teaching at SJSU since 1983.  He is a specialist in aesthetics and the philosophy of art but also always finds it exciting to teach about the great philosophers, particularly Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Dewey.  He has a blog titled Aesthetics Today.  There is a link below.

Links

• Dewey and Everyday Aesthetics by Kalle Puolakka
• Aesthetics of Human Environments: my chapter
• Article by Larry Shiner criticizing my views on architecture.
• John Dewey's Aesthetics Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Tom Leddy
• Leddy "Kant on Tattoos, Architeccture and Genderbending."
• Karen Haas painter web-site (Karen Haas is my wife)
• Leddy "The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter" 2008
• My aesthetics blog: Aesthetics Today
• Philosophy Department
• Works and Conversations: A Conversation with Tom Leddy
• Works by Thomas Leddy listed in Philpapers
• Google Play ebook version of The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life:  free sample of first 32 pages.
• The Extraordinary in the Ordinary Book Review by Christopher Dowling
• Article: Defending Everyday Aesthetics and the Concept of 'Pretty'
• Article: Aesthetization, Artification, and Aquariums
• "The Neglect of Everyday Aesthetics" Yuriko Saito from her book Everyday Aesthetics
• Aesthetic Atheism: Talk given to the Humanist Society Youtube
• A Dialectical Approach to Berleant's Concept of Engagement