Office Hours
On Leave in Fall 2026
Education
PhD, Boston University
About Me
Gorodeisky's work explores the distinctive character of human beings and the human form of life by focusing on: (1) the distinctive affective character, rationality, and value of our aesthetic engagements, (2) the spontaneous-receptive character of human emotions, which, I argue, are distinctively rational exercises of human agency, yet receptive and embodied ways of being in the world, and (3) our second-personal relationships to each other. Gorodeisky's first monograph, "Beholden to Beauty: Aesthetic Value and The Authority of Pleasure," is published with OUP.
SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
Gorodeisky was the Jane Dickson Lanier Endowed Professor at Auburn between 2019 and 2022, won a PIL Award to work on the philosophy of the emotions in Fall 2023, and won an online teaching award in 2023. She was the 2012-13 Phillip Quinn Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Gorodeisky and Eric Marcus won the 2020 Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize for their paper “Aesthetic Rationality."
Research Interests
aesthetics, emotions, Kant, reasons, agency, pleasure, value, 19th-20th century post-Kantian philosophy
Publications
For a full list of publications, see her PhilPeople Page.
Books
Beholden to Beauty: Aesthetic Value and the Authority of Pleasure (Oxford University Press, 2026)
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Aesthetic Rationality,” Journal of Philosophy, 115.3 (2018): 113-140 (co-authored with Eric Marcus)
“The Authority of Pleasure,” Nôus 55.1(2021):199-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12310
“On Liking Aesthetic Value,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 102.2(2021): 261– 280. DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12641
“Must Reasons Be Either Theoretical or Practical? Aesthetic Criticism and Appreciative Reasons,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 100.2(2021): 313-329. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2021.1910964
“Aesthetic Knowledge,” Philosophical Studies 179.8 (2022): 2507–2535. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01775-1 (co-written with Eric Marcus)
“Understanding Each Other: A Beauvoirian Second Person Approach.” European Journal of Philosophy, 33.4(2025): 1518-1539. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70018
“The Art of Expressive Selves.” The British Journal of Aesthetics 6 (2):469-483. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaf051
“’Too Timid a Dictum?’ The Art of Living.” Debates in Aesthetics, 20(4): 2026.
“Intelligible Beauty and Being Human.” The British Journal of Aesthetics (forthcoming, Fall 2026)
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Myth of the Absent Self: Disinterest, the Self, and Evaluative Self-Consciousness,” in Disinterest, ed. Larissa Berger (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023)
“Aesthetic Value,” in Contemporary Introduction to Aesthetics, eds. Emmie Malone and Elisabeth Scarbrough (Routledge, 2026)
“Aesthetic Affinities: A New Look at Kant’s Aesthetic Sociability” (in Critical Introduction to the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2026)