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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... logical relation . And notoriously people's intuitions differ . The comparison with moral judgements in fact helps us to clarify the notion of an aesthetic feature . It will be quite properly objected that the sharp distinction between ...
... logical relation . And notoriously people's intuitions differ . The comparison with moral judgements in fact helps us to clarify the notion of an aesthetic feature . It will be quite properly objected that the sharp distinction between ...
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... logical criterion . But without this simple logical criterion , the idea of an aesthetic feature ceases to be of help in the attempt to define the nature of aesthetic interest . It becomes difficult to see how attention to the aesthetic ...
... logical criterion . But without this simple logical criterion , the idea of an aesthetic feature ceases to be of help in the attempt to define the nature of aesthetic interest . It becomes difficult to see how attention to the aesthetic ...
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... logic of aesthetic description . The principal objection to the idea of an aesthetic property was this : either terms ... logical analysis : it has its life in practice , in the teaching , learning and speaking of words . The theory of ...
... logic of aesthetic description . The principal objection to the idea of an aesthetic property was this : either terms ... logical analysis : it has its life in practice , in the teaching , learning and speaking of words . The theory of ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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