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Zusatztext The question of what we philosophers of art ought to make of empirical research results and methods is one whose answer we are still very much feeling our way towards. The great value of this collection is that, with it, the terrain we must traverse to do so is now all the clearer. Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Schellekens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham, and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. She is the author of Aesthetics & Morality (Continuum, 2007), co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (Routledge, 2009), and is currently working on a book on Aesthetic Objectivism. She was post-doctoral research fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'Towards an aesthetic psychology: the philosophy of aesthetic perception and cognition' between 2004 and 2006. Her main research interests include questions at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and aesthetics, meta-ethics, and Kant.Peter Goldie is Samuel Hall Professor in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (OUP, 2007), On Personality (Routledge, 2004), and The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (Clarendon Press, 2000). Klappentext The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and literary art, music, and dance. Zusammenfassung The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and literary art, music, and dance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART 1: The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC 1: Gregory Currie: The Master of the Masek Beds: Handaxes, Art and the Minds of Early Humans 2: Matthew Kieran: The Fragility of Aesthetic Knowledge: Aesthetic Psychology and Appreciative Virtues 3: Dahlia W. Zaidel: Neuroscience, Biology, and Brain Evolution in Visual Art 4: Roman Frigg and Catherine Howard: Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art PART 2: EMOTION IN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE 5: Jesse Prinz: Emotion and Aesthetic Value 6: Roddy Cowie: Beauty is Felt, not Calculated; and it Does Not fit in Boxes 7: Peter Goldie: The Ethics of Aesthetic Bootstrapping 8: Edmund Rolls: The Origins of Aesthetics: A Neurobiological Basis for Affective Feelings and Aesthetics PART 3: BEAUTY AND UNIVERSALITY 9: I. C. McManus: Beauty is Instinctive Feeling: Experimenting on Aesthetics and Art 10: Jerrold Levinson: Beauty Is Not One: The Irreducible Variety of Visual Beauty 11: Robert Layton: Aesthetics: The Approach from Social Anthropology 12: Elisabeth Schellekens: Experiencing the Aesthetic: Kantian Autonomy or Evolutionary Biology? PART 4: IMAGINATION AND MAKE-BELIEVE 13: Aaron Meskin and Jonathan Weinberg: Imagination Unblocked 14: Dorothy and Jerome Singer: An Attitude Towards the Possible: The Contributions of Pretend Play to Later Adult Consciousness 15: Kathleen Stock: Unpacking the Boxes: The Cognitive Theory of Imagination and Aesthetics PART 5: FICTION AND EMPATHY 16: David Miall: Enacting the Other: Towards an Aesthetics of Feeling in Literary Reading 17: Peter Lamarque: On Keeping Psychology Out of Literary Criticism 18: Zanna Clay and Marco Iacoboni: Mirroring Fictional Others PART 6: MUSIC, DANCE, AND EXPRESSIVITY 19: Noël Carroll and Margaret Moore: Moving in Concert: Dance and Music 20: David Davies: 'I'll Be Your Mirror'?: Embodied Agency, Dance, and Neuroscience 21: William Forde Thompson and Lena Quinto: Music and E...
