Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is particularly noted for his work on the aesthetics of music, the aesthetics of film, the definition of art, the ontology of artworks, emotions in response to art, the nature of literary interpretation, the theory of humour, and the basis of artistic value.
Carla Carmona is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Seville. She is specialized in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the nature of pictorial art, and the Weltanschauung of Egon Schiele and fin-de-siècle Vienna. She combines her research in philosophy with her artistic practice.
