An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

and their divergent feelings of liking and aversion are the basis of their divergent identifications and rankings. 2.“All sentim ...

But what is this standard? It cannot be“fixed by reasoningsa priori.”^46 What is beautiful or valuable as art is a matter of whi ...

majority that it is sensible to regard a smaller set of people as color-blind and sensible for them to defer to the color judgme ...

imagination), who have strong senses of plausibility and significance, and who are free from prejudice are valued by most of us ...

figure out directly any objective,“metaphysical”nature of beauty that is present in all objects that merit absorption. Hume’s po ...

How can something so personal and apparently subjective as a feeling be the basis for a genuine judgment? These are the question ...

use–and we feel pleasure. Sometimes it goes less well, and we do not feel pleasure that sustains our imaginative attention. The ...

taste). That argument runs as follows.^59 (Each premise is supposedly knowna priori, via reflection alone, not through specific ...

relations–that is, is able to know some of them–it does not follow that all subjects are able to know the same causal relations ...

because it is the component in any judgment that signals the subject’sactof judging”^62 as opposed to merely reacting, as in a w ...

apprehension of the harmony of the faculties“occurs by means of a procedure that judgment has to carry out to give rise to even ...

child made the object or in the fact that it’s a poem about philosophy, rather than through finding the object as-it-were intell ...

felt–when using, we suppose, common human cognitive faculties–and then wait. Others may also then report that their cognitive fa ...

Personal and/versus discussable: Isenberg, Scruton, and Cohen on taste Are judgments of taste–identifications and evaluations of ...

ice cream”), aesthetic identifications and evaluations (“Gaddis’ JRis an important work of twentieth-century art”), and moral ju ...

objective features of Jones. Moreover, we may both see the same or similar features of character in another, but understand them ...

connected would be a horror. And so would a world in which we were exactly the same, and therefore connected unfailingly, with e ...

8 Art and emotion Some varieties of emotional response Consider the following cases: On an April 10, 1982 installment of SATURD ...

A middle-aged, bachelor scholar from Massachusetts travels to Europe at the behest of his patron, a wealthy widow, in order to ...

many, given the time pressure, felt and acted fairly immediately. The greeting card is formulaic, even clichéd. While it express ...