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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... sentences , including many present tense singular declarative sentences , that are essentially tied to truth conditions , in that no account can be given of the meaning of one of these sentences , or of what it is to understand one of ...
... sentences , including many present tense singular declarative sentences , that are essentially tied to truth conditions , in that no account can be given of the meaning of one of these sentences , or of what it is to understand one of ...
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... sentences in two isomorphic but uninterpreted languages . Or we could think of ' s " as some arbi- trary sentence introduced into the language for precisely this purpose ( a sentence that has no sense apart from the sense given to it by ...
... sentences in two isomorphic but uninterpreted languages . Or we could think of ' s " as some arbi- trary sentence introduced into the language for precisely this purpose ( a sentence that has no sense apart from the sense given to it by ...
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... sentences without truth conditions must inevitably conflict with the semantic theory : for how could meanings be assigned to such sentences ? However , this is not so : the problems that arise in the case of such sentences are ...
... sentences without truth conditions must inevitably conflict with the semantic theory : for how could meanings be assigned to such sentences ? However , this is not so : the problems that arise in the case of such sentences are ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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