Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include <i>Music, Art, and Metaphysics</i> (1990), <i>The Pleasures of Aesthetics</i> (1998), and <i>Music in the Moment</i> (1998). He is the editor of <i>The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics</i> (2003) and co-editor of <i>Aesthetic Concepts</i> (2001). He is Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics and serves on the editorial board of the <i>Journal of Aesthetics</i>. His work is widely anthologized and translated into various languages.