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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... thought is subject to the will . ( Which is not to say that imagery is necessarily as responsive to the will as thought is . ) Finally , images and thoughts are identified in a similar way , and ascribed on a similar basis . Thus the ...
... thought is subject to the will . ( Which is not to say that imagery is necessarily as responsive to the will as thought is . ) Finally , images and thoughts are identified in a similar way , and ascribed on a similar basis . Thus the ...
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... thought , and one of experi- ence . As thought it might refer either to a variety of quasi- interpretative attitudes , or to the imaginative thinking of an object as something that it is not . This second kind of thought process seems ...
... thought , and one of experi- ence . As thought it might refer either to a variety of quasi- interpretative attitudes , or to the imaginative thinking of an object as something that it is not . This second kind of thought process seems ...
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... thought ' that obscures the problem with which I am trying to deal . In the sense in which one may understand the thought of a scientific or historical treatise the identity of a thought is secured not by the identity of its expression ...
... thought ' that obscures the problem with which I am trying to deal . In the sense in which one may understand the thought of a scientific or historical treatise the identity of a thought is secured not by the identity of its expression ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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