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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... argument would provide the needed proof that aesthetic descriptions are divorced from truth conditions in the epistemological sense : aesthetic features are not properties . It is worthwhile here to forestall an objection that may ...
... argument would provide the needed proof that aesthetic descriptions are divorced from truth conditions in the epistemological sense : aesthetic features are not properties . It is worthwhile here to forestall an objection that may ...
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... argument has force , then perhaps there is something wrong with the idea that only some declarative sentences express beliefs . And it is certainly true that in ordinary parlance we make no distinction between declaratives that do and ...
... argument has force , then perhaps there is something wrong with the idea that only some declarative sentences express beliefs . And it is certainly true that in ordinary parlance we make no distinction between declaratives that do and ...
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... argument bears on the practice of criticism . In particular , I have offered no solution to the critic's most vexing ... arguments at least as complicated as those I have already given , but I shall conclude with a few sugges- tions ...
... argument bears on the practice of criticism . In particular , I have offered no solution to the critic's most vexing ... arguments at least as complicated as those I have already given , but I shall conclude with a few sugges- tions ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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