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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... emotion and belief , and between emotion and desire . Normally , as the argument about ' formal objects ' given in Chapter Six makes clear , an emotion is identified partly in terms of a belief . It follows from the statement that a man ...
... emotion and belief , and between emotion and desire . Normally , as the argument about ' formal objects ' given in Chapter Six makes clear , an emotion is identified partly in terms of a belief . It follows from the statement that a man ...
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... emotion . In this respect the intensity of an aesthetic emotion is a function not of the assertedness of its core of thought , but rather of the degree of ' imaginative involvement ' that is experienced , and this in its turn depends on ...
... emotion . In this respect the intensity of an aesthetic emotion is a function not of the assertedness of its core of thought , but rather of the degree of ' imaginative involvement ' that is experienced , and this in its turn depends on ...
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... emotion that we cannot describe it independently of its expression , which is the expression of an emotion that includes neither belief nor desire . Hence the so- called ineffability of aesthetic emotions is a logical consequence of ...
... emotion that we cannot describe it independently of its expression , which is the expression of an emotion that includes neither belief nor desire . Hence the so- called ineffability of aesthetic emotions is a logical consequence of ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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