Contemporary cultural practices have blurred and eroded traditional disciplinary boundaries of art and its discourses and the ways in which they are taught. They have called into question the ideological premises and cultural assumptions on which traditional academic subjects were founded and which have underwritten the segregation between practice pragmatic and speculative thought. The Scottish Theoros Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate was jointly initiated by the Department of Philosophy and the School of Fine Art at the University of Dundee to create a space for dialogue between and across the various disciplines that are concerned with the study of visual arts practice aesthetics theory history and criticism.