Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies

A Lecture on
			Applied Environmental Aesthetics

Yrjö Sepänmaa

7 p.m. November 3, 1998

EESAT 320A, University of North Texas

The question of what aesthetics is, morenarrowly applied aesthetics, and even more narrowly applied environmental aesthetics, closely follows the question of who is an aesthetician, more precisely an applied aesthetician (or 'aestheticist,' like 'ethicist'),and even more precisely an applied environmental aesthetician (aestheticist).The delimitation can be made according to a bipartite division: there are applied aestheticians who descend from the tradition of academic philosophical aesthetics, and there are applied aestheticians that rise from the area of specialized sciences. In addition to the second group, there are hidden applied environmental aestheticists in environmental administration and politics and various environmental professions.

Yrjö Sepänmaa is a Professorof Literature at the University of Joensuu, Finland. He is the author of The Beauty of Environment: A General Model for Environmental Aesthetics. He is now working on a book dealing with concreate applications of environmental aesthetics to real world problems. Professor Sepänmaa is the organizer of a series of international conferences on environmental aesthetics at the University of Joensuu.

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