13 Citations
Cavendish’s Aesthetic Realism
- PhilosophyPhilosophers' Imprint
- 2022
This paper offers a new interpretation of Margaret Cavendish’s remarks on beauty. According to it, Cavendish takes beauty to be a real, response-independent quality of objects. In this sense,…
Must Reasons Be Either Theoretical or Practical? Aesthetic Criticism and Appreciative Reasons
- Philosophy
- 2021
ABSTRACT A long debate in aesthetics concerns the reasoned nature of criticism. The main questions in the debate ask whether criticism is based on (normative) reasons, whether critics communicate…
Art Forms Emerging: An Approach to Evaluative Diversity in Art
- Art
- 2020
Artworks are rationally evaluable and comparable within their art form, but not from outside. Beethoven's string quartets cannot be evaluated against works of Hindustani music. This is the problem…
Aesthetic Reasons and the Demands They (Do Not) Make
- Philosophy, Art
- 2020
What does the aesthetic ask of us? What claims do the aesthetic features of the objects and events in our environment make on us? My answer in this paper is: that depends. Aesthetic reasons can…
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- Philosophy
- 2020
Despite Newman’s negligible direct familiarity with the works and thought of John Duns Scotus, there has been recent discussion of affinities between the two along a range of philosophical approaches…
Autonomy and Aesthetic Engagement
- ArtMind
- 2019
There seems to be a deep tension between two aspects of aesthetic appreciation. On the one hand, we care about getting things right. Our attempts at aesthetic judgments aim at correctness. On the…
Pleasure: A History
- Philosophy, ArtOxford Scholarship Online
- 2018
This book challenges received views about pleasures as principally motivating of action, themselves unanalyzable, caused, rather than responsive to reasons, and perhaps because of that, antithetical…
Hume and the Value of the Beautiful
- Philosophy, Art
- 2011
Hume is plausibly interpreted as asserting that an artwork is beautiful if and only if it pleases ideal critics. Jerrold Levinson maintains that Hume's commitment to this biconditional gives rise to…
The Problem of Non‐Perceptual Art
- Art, Philosophy
- 2003
Consider the following three propositions: (R) Artworks necessarily have aesthetic properties that are relevant to their appreciation as artworks. (S) Aesthetic properties necessarily depend, at…