Dogma persists in aesthetic discourse in the assumptions that art consists primarily of objects, that these objects possess a special status, and that they must be regarded in a unique way. I claim that they are assumptive and misleading, while Carson opposes this by supporting the dogmas. I argue that Carlson begs the question (the relevance of the dogmas) by assuming them in his criticism of my challenge
This Editor's column summarises some of the insights I got from Richard Wollheim over the years, and...
In this chapter, I argue against empiricist positions which claim that empirical evidence can be suf...
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. One advantage of this view is that ...
Allen Carlson finds three central problems in my book, Aesthetics and Environment : that it lacks a ...
We demonstrate that many philosophers accept the following claim: When an aesthetic object is appreh...
Wittgenstein offers three objections to the idea of aesthetics as a branch of psychology: (i) Statis...
It has often been claimed that adequate aesthetic judgements must be grounded in the appreciator\u27...
'PERHAPS WHAT is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express)', wrote Wittgenst...
Why is it that we cannot legitimately make certain aesthetic assertions – for instance that ‘Guernic...
Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled against...
We acquire beliefs on the basis of what others tell us all the time. If you tell me that your house...
Peter Kivy claims that expressivists in aesthetics cannot explain why we argue about art. The situat...
I contend that the concept of aesthetics lies at the very heart of the art educational enterprise, a...
This Editor's column summarises some of the insights I got from Richard Wollheim over the years, and...
In this chapter, I argue against empiricist positions which claim that empirical evidence can be suf...
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. One advantage of this view is that ...
Allen Carlson finds three central problems in my book, Aesthetics and Environment : that it lacks a ...
We demonstrate that many philosophers accept the following claim: When an aesthetic object is appreh...
Wittgenstein offers three objections to the idea of aesthetics as a branch of psychology: (i) Statis...
It has often been claimed that adequate aesthetic judgements must be grounded in the appreciator\u27...
'PERHAPS WHAT is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express)', wrote Wittgenst...
Why is it that we cannot legitimately make certain aesthetic assertions – for instance that ‘Guernic...
Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled against...
We acquire beliefs on the basis of what others tell us all the time. If you tell me that your house...
Peter Kivy claims that expressivists in aesthetics cannot explain why we argue about art. The situat...
I contend that the concept of aesthetics lies at the very heart of the art educational enterprise, a...
This Editor's column summarises some of the insights I got from Richard Wollheim over the years, and...
In this chapter, I argue against empiricist positions which claim that empirical evidence can be suf...
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. One advantage of this view is that ...
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