George Dickie is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of "Aesthetics: An Introduction" (1971), "Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis" (1974), "The Art Circle" (1984), "The Century of Taste" (1996), and "Evaluating Art" (1988). He co-edited "Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology" (1989, second edition), and "Introduction to Aesthetics" (1997).