He is the author of numerous articles on issues in copyright and the ontology of art and Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2012). Reinold Schmucker is a Professor of Philosophy at Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat in Munster, Germany. He is the author of Was ist Kunst? Eine Grundlegung [What Is Art? A Foundation] (1998; Revised Edition, 2014) and editor of several German language collected volumes on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.