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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... question of little interest in aesthetics . The question is not whether works of art do have such strong criteria of identity , but rather whether every change in a work of art is necessarily a change in its aesthetic character . If a ...
... question of little interest in aesthetics . The question is not whether works of art do have such strong criteria of identity , but rather whether every change in a work of art is necessarily a change in its aesthetic character . If a ...
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... question whether or not they are sad is undecidable . Now suppose also that someone else carries out the same classi ... question is an observable emergent property , we must say that the man has perceived the sadness of the works of art ...
... question whether or not they are sad is undecidable . Now suppose also that someone else carries out the same classi ... question is an observable emergent property , we must say that the man has perceived the sadness of the works of art ...
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... question ) , ' I didn't know I was looking at them ' , and so on . In all these cases the answers reflect an attitude to the actions of the workmen that is either cognitive ( involving an interest in knowledge ) or else part of an ...
... question ) , ' I didn't know I was looking at them ' , and so on . In all these cases the answers reflect an attitude to the actions of the workmen that is either cognitive ( involving an interest in knowledge ) or else part of an ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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