Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of MindSt. Augustine's Press, 1998 - 256 pages This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with questions in the philosophy of art. Thus the argument advances from a theory of aesthetic judgment (and in particular of "aesthetic description"), to a theory of aesthetic appreciation, and thence to an account of the nature and value of art. |
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... argue that there ' emerges ' from these non - aesthetic features a dead and rhetorical aesthetic quality . But it is equally possible to re - describe the passage , mentioning the same set of non - aesthetic features , so that the ...
... argue that there ' emerges ' from these non - aesthetic features a dead and rhetorical aesthetic quality . But it is equally possible to re - describe the passage , mentioning the same set of non - aesthetic features , so that the ...
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... argument we find that it has certain extremely paradoxical consequences . For if we really could argue from the premise that beliefs are identified in language only by referring to declarative sentences to the conclusion that beliefs ...
... argument we find that it has certain extremely paradoxical consequences . For if we really could argue from the premise that beliefs are identified in language only by referring to declarative sentences to the conclusion that beliefs ...
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... argue that it is these attitudes that determine the structure of aesthetic experience . However , my arguments will ... argue . Only at the end of the chapter will it be possible to esti- mate the plausibility of the premises from which ...
... argue that it is these attitudes that determine the structure of aesthetic experience . However , my arguments will ... argue . Only at the end of the chapter will it be possible to esti- mate the plausibility of the premises from which ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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