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How far should philosophical accounts of the value and interpretation of art be sensitive to the scientific approaches used by psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary thinkers? A team of experts urge different answers to this question, and explore how empirical inquiry can shed light on problems traditionally regarded as philosophical.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part I: Method
- 1: Dominic McIver Lopes: Feckless Reason
- 2: Sherri Irvin: Is Aesthetic Experience Possible?
- 3: David Davies: 'This is Your Brain on Art': What Can Philosophy of Art Learn from Neuroscience?
- 4: Fabian Dorsch: The Limits of Aesthetic Empiricism
- 5: Bence Nanay: Philosophy of Perception as a Guide to Aesthetics
- 6: Christy Mag Uidhir and Cameron Buckner: Portrait of the Artist as an Aesthetic Expert
- Part II: First Order Issues
- 7: Jesse Prinz: Seeing with Feeling
- 8: Noël Carroll: The Arts, Emotion, and Evolution
- 9: Jonathan Weinberg: All Your Desires in One Box
- 10: Kathleen Stock: Physiological Evidence and the Paradox of Fiction
- 11: Stacie Friend: Believing in Stories
- Index
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Greg Currie taught for many years in New Zealand and Australia. He now teaches at the University of York. His most recent book is Narratives and Narrators (OUP, 2010) and he is now working on a book on literary representations of mind.
Matthew Kieran is Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous articles and books such as Revealing Art (2005) which has been translated into various languages including Chinese and Korean. His wider philosophical interests include creativity, art, psychology, and ethics.
Aaron Meskin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on aesthetics and other philosophical subjects. He co-edited Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Jon Robson is a teaching associate at the University of Nottingham, having previously served as a postdoctoral fellow on the AHRC project 'Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the Challenge from the Sciences'. He has published papers in a range of subjects including the epistemology of aesthetic judgements, the philosophy of videogames, and the beauty of God.
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How far should philosophical accounts of the value and interpretation of art be sensitive to the scientific approaches used by psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary thinkers? A team of experts urge different answers to this question, and explore how empirical inquiry can shed light on problems traditionally regarded as philosophical.
