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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... explain the way in which the indefinite number of complex sentences in a language can be understood in terms of a finite vocabulary . Once a declarative sentence is in- cluded under Tarski's schema various theories are available which ...
... explain the way in which the indefinite number of complex sentences in a language can be understood in terms of a finite vocabulary . Once a declarative sentence is in- cluded under Tarski's schema various theories are available which ...
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... explanation of why we react to pictures of unicorns as we do ( why they make us think of unicorns ) , and that we ... explain the fact that we use precisely this predicate to locate the picture's place in a scheme of symbols . What is ...
... explanation of why we react to pictures of unicorns as we do ( why they make us think of unicorns ) , and that we ... explain the fact that we use precisely this predicate to locate the picture's place in a scheme of symbols . What is ...
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... explain the connection of meaning between ' man ' and ' man - picture ' . But can the semantic theory really do this ? A natural way of attempt- ing the needed explanation would be to invoke the supposed parallel between paintings and ...
... explain the connection of meaning between ' man ' and ' man - picture ' . But can the semantic theory really do this ? A natural way of attempt- ing the needed explanation would be to invoke the supposed parallel between paintings and ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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