Nick Riggle
[Image description: A photo of Nick, who has light skin and a salt and pepper beard, in a domestic interior space. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and rests his arms on his knees. He looks off to the right of the image, with a bemused expression on his face.]
Nick Riggle is a philosopher who specializes in aesthetics and the philosophy of art and teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He has published academic articles on aesthetic value, aesthetic life, style, street art, and the history of aesthetics. He is the author of On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck (Penguin 2017) and the forthcoming co-authored book (with Dominic McIver Lopes and Bence Nanay) Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press). He organizes the Southern California Aesthetics Forum with Clinton Tolley.
Read his work on HereIn: