Michael Spicher is a writer and philosopher, who is specialised in art and aesthetics. He is based in Boston and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. He currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and Boston Architectural College. Apart from that he also founded the Aesthetics Research Lab in 2016, with an excellent website that showcases a lot of fascinating research and projects that showcase the importance of aesthetics in our everyday lives. He is currently co-editing a book about digital fashion for Bloomsbury Publishing. This episode dives deep into the questions of what aesthetics are, why they are important, the difference between beauty and taste and the great value of what can be achieved when various fields of research are combined. Visit Michael's website here: Aesthetics Research Lab Social Media: Twitter  |  LinkedIn  | PhilPeople Michael is the Aesthetics Area Editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Books In this episode, Michael talks about the following books: The survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff The Abuse of Beauty, Arthur C. Danto Beauty: A Quick Immersion, Crispin Sartwell The Aesthetic Brain, Anjan Chatterjee Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr ------ For more information on The Aesthetic City, find our website on https://theaestheticcity.com/ Love what we do? Become a patron! With your help we can grow this platform even further, make more content and hopefully achieve real, lasting impact for more beautiful cities worldwide. Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/the_aesthetic_city Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Aesthetic_City Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.aesthetic.city/