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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... distinction between aesthetic and practical attitudes is a more specific distinction , between what is aesthetic and what is moral . In fact , philosophers in the Kantian tradition have tended to concentrate on this distinction , partly ...
... distinction between aesthetic and practical attitudes is a more specific distinction , between what is aesthetic and what is moral . In fact , philosophers in the Kantian tradition have tended to concentrate on this distinction , partly ...
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... distinction is being in- voked . And yet that there is a distinction is , I think , something that we do not doubt . Perhaps , then , we should combine our two intuitions , first that appreciation of art is not appreciation of it as a ...
... distinction is being in- voked . And yet that there is a distinction is , I think , something that we do not doubt . Perhaps , then , we should combine our two intuitions , first that appreciation of art is not appreciation of it as a ...
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... distinction between declaratives that do and declaratives that do not express belief . We talk quite freely of moral beliefs , for example , and there are no restrictions other than grammatical ones on which sentences can occur after ...
... distinction between declaratives that do and declaratives that do not express belief . We talk quite freely of moral beliefs , for example , and there are no restrictions other than grammatical ones on which sentences can occur after ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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