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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... notion of an image , as though the presence of images were the distinguishing feature of all acts of imagination . One of the main objects of the discus- sion has been to refute the traditional dualist and empiricist notion of imagery ...
... notion of an image , as though the presence of images were the distinguishing feature of all acts of imagination . One of the main objects of the discus- sion has been to refute the traditional dualist and empiricist notion of imagery ...
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... notion of interest in an object for its own sake as an interest for which the question ' Why ? ' has a certain kind of answer . Someone may still ask the question which we have been attempt- ing all along to answer , namely , ' What is ...
... notion of interest in an object for its own sake as an interest for which the question ' Why ? ' has a certain kind of answer . Someone may still ask the question which we have been attempt- ing all along to answer , namely , ' What is ...
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... notion of convention , the emphasis on intention by no means implies the heteronomy of aesthetic judgement . The final objection is the most interesting of the four . How is it possible to explain the concept of realism in pictorial ...
... notion of convention , the emphasis on intention by no means implies the heteronomy of aesthetic judgement . The final objection is the most interesting of the four . How is it possible to explain the concept of realism in pictorial ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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