Michel Antoine Xhignesse

(He, Him, His)

Sessional Instructor

Economics, Philosophy and Political Science

Office: Remote
Email: mxhignes@mail.ubc.ca

Research Summary

Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Courses & Teaching

PHIL 331 & PHIL 111

Biography

Michel-Antoine Xhignesse received his PhD in philosophy from McGill University. He was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at UBC before joining the faculty at Capilano University, where he is an instructor. He works primarily in the philosophy of art, where it intersects with metaphysics (e.g. the ontology of art) and the philosophy of language (e.g. truth in fiction).

He is the author of Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (Routledge 2023), and the translator of On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts, by Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (Lexington 2024) and, with James O. Young, of Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste, by Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (OUP 2025).

Degrees

PhD (McGill University), MA (Queen’s University), BA (Mount Allison University)