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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... beliefs and declarative sentences that do not , I seem to have implied that beliefs can be identified independently of the sentences that express them . Since it has been argued by several philosophers that the concept of belief can ...
... beliefs and declarative sentences that do not , I seem to have implied that beliefs can be identified independently of the sentences that express them . Since it has been argued by several philosophers that the concept of belief can ...
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... belief in the explanation of behaviour ( on analogy with the concept of information ) , then beliefs will be given by precisely those sentences that are connected with truth conditions in the strong ( epistemological ) sense . For in ...
... belief in the explanation of behaviour ( on analogy with the concept of information ) , then beliefs will be given by precisely those sentences that are connected with truth conditions in the strong ( epistemological ) sense . For in ...
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... belief- cannot be induced by an effort of will . It means that the request to imagine or form an image of something ... belief or the perception in question . The voluntariness attaches not to the belief or perception themselves , but to ...
... belief- cannot be induced by an effort of will . It means that the request to imagine or form an image of something ... belief or the perception in question . The voluntariness attaches not to the belief or perception themselves , but to ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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