Add to ORKGRelying on aesthetic testimony seems problematic. For instance, it seems problematic for me to simply believe or assert that The Velvet Underground's debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1964) is amazing solely because you have told me so, even though I know you to be an honest and competent music critic. But why? After all, there do not seem to be similar reservations regarding testimony from many other domains. In this paper, I will argue that relying on aesthetic testimony seems problematic because we are attached to an ideal of aesthetic authenticity and feel that living up to this ideal is anathema to simply relying on aesthetic testimony
In this paper, I argue that norms of artistic and aesthetic authenticity that prioritize material or...
Judgments of performance art are often contingent upon a notion of Authenticity. What we mean by aut...
Aesthetic subjectivism takes the truth of aesthetic judgments to be relative to the individual makin...
Relying on aesthetic testimony seems problematic. For instance, it seems problematic for me to simpl...
I ask whether, and how far, it is possible legitimately to acquire the belief that a given item is b...
This thesis has two main aims. The first is to examine the kinds of circumstances in which we form n...
We acquire beliefs on the basis of what others tell us all the time. If you tell me that your house...
I propose a new account of the limits of aesthetic testimony. One of this new account’s main claims ...
There is something peculiar about aesthetic testimony. It seems more difficult to gain knowledge of ...
Why is it that we cannot legitimately make certain aesthetic assertions – for instance that ‘Guernic...
Though much of what we learn about the world comes from trusting testimony, the status of aesthetic ...
If a reliable testifier tells you that a song is beautiful or that an act is wrong, do you thereby h...
Pessimists about aesthetic testimony argue that it is inappropriate to rely on other people’s aesthe...
Aesthetic non-inferentialism is the widely-held thesis that aesthetic judgements either are identica...
Since the mid-Sixties, philosophers have debated over the aesthetic value of authentic art-objects a...
In this paper, I argue that norms of artistic and aesthetic authenticity that prioritize material or...
Judgments of performance art are often contingent upon a notion of Authenticity. What we mean by aut...
Aesthetic subjectivism takes the truth of aesthetic judgments to be relative to the individual makin...
Relying on aesthetic testimony seems problematic. For instance, it seems problematic for me to simpl...
I ask whether, and how far, it is possible legitimately to acquire the belief that a given item is b...
This thesis has two main aims. The first is to examine the kinds of circumstances in which we form n...
We acquire beliefs on the basis of what others tell us all the time. If you tell me that your house...
I propose a new account of the limits of aesthetic testimony. One of this new account’s main claims ...
There is something peculiar about aesthetic testimony. It seems more difficult to gain knowledge of ...
Why is it that we cannot legitimately make certain aesthetic assertions – for instance that ‘Guernic...
Though much of what we learn about the world comes from trusting testimony, the status of aesthetic ...
If a reliable testifier tells you that a song is beautiful or that an act is wrong, do you thereby h...
Pessimists about aesthetic testimony argue that it is inappropriate to rely on other people’s aesthe...
Aesthetic non-inferentialism is the widely-held thesis that aesthetic judgements either are identica...
Since the mid-Sixties, philosophers have debated over the aesthetic value of authentic art-objects a...
In this paper, I argue that norms of artistic and aesthetic authenticity that prioritize material or...
Judgments of performance art are often contingent upon a notion of Authenticity. What we mean by aut...
Aesthetic subjectivism takes the truth of aesthetic judgments to be relative to the individual makin...