Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art

This volume contains notable essays on the role of empirical enquiry in philosophical aesthetics.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Aesthetic autonomy and self-aggrandisement Jon Robson; 2. The verse-line as a whole unit in working memory, ease of processing, and the aesthetic effects of form Nigel Fabb; 3. Aesthetic disgust? Jenefer Robinson; 4. The development of imaginative cognition Deena Skolnick Weisberg; 5. The epistemology of fiction and the question of invariant norms Jonathan Gilmore; 6. Explanations: aesthetic and scientific Shen-Yi Liao; 7. Against nature? or, confessions of a Darwinian modernist Murray Smith; 8. Mixed motivations: creativity as a virtue Berys Gaut; 9. Creativity, virtue and the challenges from natural talent, ill-being and immorality Matthew Kieran; 10. Music and cognitive science Roger Scruton; 11. Aesthetics as a normative science Gordon Graham.

Summary

This collection of essays, originating in a conference at the Leeds Art Gallery in 2012, reviews the role of empirical enquiry in philosophical aesthetics. Contributions address aesthetic testimony, the processing and appreciation of poetry, creativity, musical cognition, the aesthetics of disgust and evolutionary constraints on art appreciation.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Currie, Gregory (University of York) Kieran Currie, Gregory Kieran Currie, Gregory Currie & Matthew Kieran
• Assisted by: Gregory Currie (Editor), Gregory (University of York) Currie (Editor), Matthew Kieran (Editor), Matthew (University of Leeds) Kieran (Editor), Aaron Meskin (Editor), Aaron (University of Leeds) Meskin (Editor), Margaret Moore (Editor), Margaret (University of Tennessee Moore (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107654587
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65458-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works