Leddy, Thomas W
Professor, Philosophy
Preferred: thomas.leddy@sjsu.edu
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-4528
Office Hours
M 2:00-3:00, T 10:30-11:30, W 2:00-2:30, TH 10:30-11:30
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
- John Dewey's Aesthetics Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Leddy "Kant on Tattoos, Architecture and Genderbending."
- Karen Haas artist (Karen Haas is my wife)
- Aesthetics Today: My Blog
- Works and Conversations: A Conversation with Tom Leddy
- 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
- Aesthetic Atheism: Talk given to the Humanist Society Youtube
- A Dialectical Approach to Berleant's Concept of Engagement