22/10/2024 · This paper presents a new account of the pleasure we take in art. It distinguishes first between two types of pleasure.
16/12/2024 · The three view points of aesthetics. Jerrold Levinson in his book The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays (1996) argues that aesthetic philosophy can ...
08/03/2024 · Our definition, then, might be this: aesthetics is a sub-branch of philosophy that examines questions of the pleasantness of our experiences concerning things ...
22/10/2024 · Experimental philosophy of art and aesthetics is the application of the methods of experimental philosophy to questions about art and aesthetics.
01/04/2024 · This article argues that we should understand aesthetic value in a way that centers these social forms of aesthetic engagement.
02/07/2024 · This paper defends a 'noetic' conception of aesthetic experience whereby such experience is best conceived as a kind of explorative thought process.
05/01/2025 · Jerrold Levinson, 'Extending Art Historically', in The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays (1996). --'Artworks as Artifacts', in Creations of the ...
16/08/2024 · Environmental aesthetics originated in part as a reaction to this emphasis, shifting attention to the aesthetic appreciation of nature and the environment.
22/10/2024 · In this paper I explore the tension between the view that art is to be appreciated for its own sake and the apparent fact that much art is made to serve ...
03/02/2024 · According to Kant, aesthetic pleasure is disinterested, and so maybe for Kant aesthetic emotions would be too, for Kant, but emotions by their very nature ...