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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... aspect . Suppose an object has the aspect both of a rabbit and of a duck . A man who ' sees ' the duck might consciously reproduce all the features that are responsible for this aspect : from which it follows that he reproduces the ...
... aspect . Suppose an object has the aspect both of a rabbit and of a duck . A man who ' sees ' the duck might consciously reproduce all the features that are responsible for this aspect : from which it follows that he reproduces the ...
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... aspects are not properties ( as indeed Wittgenstein said they were not ) . For there need be no criteria for the application of a term to an object when that term is used to describe its aspect . Terms used in this sense are terms whose ...
... aspects are not properties ( as indeed Wittgenstein said they were not ) . For there need be no criteria for the application of a term to an object when that term is used to describe its aspect . Terms used in this sense are terms whose ...
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... aspect . Secondly the aspect , like a thought , is an object of immediate knowledge - when I ' see ' an aspect I know immediately and incorrigibly the aspect that I see.3 ( It goes without saying that when I see some- thing , in the ...
... aspect . Secondly the aspect , like a thought , is an object of immediate knowledge - when I ' see ' an aspect I know immediately and incorrigibly the aspect that I see.3 ( It goes without saying that when I see some- thing , in the ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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