Emily Brady

Emily Brady is an analytic philosopher who specializes in aesthetics, environmental philosophy and history of eighteenth-century philosophy. She is currently a professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. From 2018 to 2022, she was also Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, where she held the inaugural Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director's Chair. She is best known for her work on the sublime and on environmental philosophy.

Biography

Brady earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1992. Until 2018, she was Professor of Environment and Philosophy in the Institute of Geography and
the Lived Environment at the University of Edinburgh. From 1994 to 2004 she was a Lecturer, then a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University.

Select publications

The Sublime in Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2013Aesthetics of the Natural Environment, Edinburgh University Press, 2003Aesthetic Concepts: Essays After Sibley, Oxford University Press, 2001Environment and Philosophy, Routledge, 2000