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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... attribute to ' seeing as ' a formal feature that also belongs to perceptual experience the feature of ' having parts ' . When I see the figure as a duck then the aspect is , as it were , spread out over a visual field . Geach has ...
... attribute to ' seeing as ' a formal feature that also belongs to perceptual experience the feature of ' having parts ' . When I see the figure as a duck then the aspect is , as it were , spread out over a visual field . Geach has ...
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... attribute desires not only to human beings but also to animals , but we do not attribute to animals the kind of interest in an object for its own sake , or for no other reason , that is characteristic of aesthetic appreciation . There ...
... attribute desires not only to human beings but also to animals , but we do not attribute to animals the kind of interest in an object for its own sake , or for no other reason , that is characteristic of aesthetic appreciation . There ...
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... attribute that is ' metaphorically possessed ' . Goodman feels at liberty to use the terms ' attribute ' and ' predicate ' inter- changeably , on nominalist grounds . Equally true to the premise of nominalism is his refusal to give an ...
... attribute that is ' metaphorically possessed ' . Goodman feels at liberty to use the terms ' attribute ' and ' predicate ' inter- changeably , on nominalist grounds . Equally true to the premise of nominalism is his refusal to give an ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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