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James joined this department in 1985. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

James O. Young, FRSC is Professor of Philosophy. He has interests in metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics and philosophy of art. In philosophy of art, he is particularly interested in philosophy of music, art as a source of knowledge, and ontological and moral questions raised by reflection on the arts. He also has emerging interests in the history of aesthetics, the history of eighteenth-century philosophy and women in the history of philosophy. Current projects include an edited collection of essays on Anne Dacier and a project on the nature of the aesthetic. Dr. Young was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2022 David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research.

Dr Young has a practical as well as a philosophical interest in music. He is an amateur harpsichordist and fortepianist and is Artistic Director Emeritus of the  .

Dr Young is the author of  (Avebury, 1995), Art and Knowledge (Routledge, 2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), Critique of Pure Music (Oxford, 2014), Filosofía de la Música. Respuestas a Peter Kivy (Calanda, 2017), Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge, 2020), A History of Western Philosophy of Music (Cambridge, 2023), and Critique of Practical Music: Music and Moral Development (Routledge, 2026). He has translated, annotated and introduced Charles Batteux’s The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (Oxford, 2015), Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (with Margaret Cameron) (Brill, 2021) and Anne Dacier’s Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste (with Michel-Antoine Xhignesse) (Oxford, 2025). He edited the four-volume collection Aesthetics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge, 2005), Semantics of Aesthetic Judgements (Oxford, 2017) and co-edited The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) with Conrad Brunk. In addition to his books, Dr Young has written over eighty articles in refereed journals and many book chapters. 

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