Background
Motherslll, Mary was born on May 27, 1923 in Edmonton.
Motherslll, Mary was born on May 27, 1923 in Edmonton.
BA. University of Toronto, 1944. PhD. Harvard, 1954.
Vassar. '947-51; Columbia, 1951-1953. University of Connecticut, 1953-1957. University of Michigan, 1957-1958: University of Chicago, 1958-1961.
Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, from 1964.
Mary Mothersill’s early writing focused on topics jP ethics. Her major contribution to aesthetics is ber book Beauty Restored (1991), in which she defends a theory of aesthetic judgement influenced by Immanuel Kant and Arnold Isenberg. .e maintains that there are no laws nor general Pr|neiples of taste and yet that some individual Jugements of taste are nevertheless genuine. She argues that these two features of judgements of taste are not only consistent, but also coherent. Sources: Directory of American Scholars, 1974: Philosophical Investigations.