Berys Gaut is an author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.[1] He writes on aesthetics, creativity, philosophy of film, and ethics.[2] He was president of the British Society of Aesthetics until 2018.[3]
Gaut has written two monographs, numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed many chapters to edited volumes and edited several books. In Art, Emotion and Ethics (2007) he explores the connection between aesthetics and ethics.[4] In A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (2010) many of his previously published papers on cinema are collected.[5] He has edited several books including The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, together with Dominic McIver Lopes (first edition 2001), The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, together with Paisley Livingston (2003) and Creativity and Philosophy, together with Matthew Kieran (2018). He has co-authored Philosophy for Young Children: A Practical Guide (2011) with primary school teacher Morag Gaut.[6]