What is it about?
Museums and their practices - especially those involving collection, curation and exhibition - generate a host of philosophical questions. Such questions are not limited to the areas of ethics and aesthetics, but go further into the domains of metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of religion.
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Why is it important?
Despite the prominence of museums as public institutions, they have until recently received surprisingly little scrutiny from philosophers. This paper introduces the first edited volume to bring together substantial philosophical work within the developing field of the philosophy of museums.
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This page is a summary of: Introduction, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, October 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1358246116000047.
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