I work mainly in aesthetics and am a member of the UBC aesthetics group. My research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of art and its value; the ontology of art; computer art and new art forms; aesthetic value; and the history of aesthetics in Europe and South Asia. I’m now working on a book entitled Pluralism and Its Discontents: Episodes in the History of Aesthetics.

Visit lopes.mentalpaint.net for my papers

Aesthetic Injustice (Oxford University Press, 2024)

The Geography of Taste, with Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Bernard Bolzano, Essays on Beauty and the Arts, ed. Dominic McIver Lopes, trans. Adam Bresnahan (Hackett, 2023)

Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters, with Bence Nanay and Nick Riggle (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Les arts et les images: Dialogues avec Dominic McIver Lopes, ed. Laure Blanc-Benon (Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019)

Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Aesthetics on the Edge: Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Four Arts of Photography (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)

Beyond Art (Oxford University Press, 2014)

A Philosophy of Computer Art (London: Routledge, 2009)

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Understanding Pictures (Oxford University Press, 1996).

Martin R. and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association

Calouste Gulbenkian Visting Professor

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Quinn Prize, American Philosophical Association

Canada Council Killam Research Fellow

Guggenheim Fellow

Leverhulme Visiting Professor

Killam Research Prize

Canadian Philosophical Association Essay Prize

American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize

Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize

Lopes is past chair of the APA Board of Officers and past president of the American Society for Aesthetics and the Canadian Philosophical Association. He is an associate editor at Ergo, and he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and Estetika: European Journal of Aesthetics.