Peter Lamarque

Lamarque was educated at Marlborough College and received a BA degree in English and Philosophy from the University of East Anglia. He then completed a BPhil in philosophy at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1972, where he worked under the supervision of Laurence Jonathan Cohen. == Career ==

From 1972 to 1995 Lamarque taught in the Philosophy Department at the University of Stirling, and from 1995 to 2000 he held the Ferens Chair in Philosophy at the University of Hull. In 2000, he moved to the University of York to take up his current position. He has held visiting positions in several universities around the world, including Cornell University and the Australian National University. Lamarque has published extensively on various philosophical topics, mostly in the area of analytic philosophy of art. He published the first systematic articulation of an approach to the paradox of fiction usually referred to as 'thought theory'. He was editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics from 1995 to 2008. In 2009, he was chosen to give the first ever BSA/ASA Wollheim Memorial Lecture at the American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. In 2018, he was awarded the "Premio Internazionale d'Estetica" by the Italian Society of Aesthetics. ==Bibliography==