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In Defence of Tourists
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: It is not uncommon for art historians and philosophers of art to deride the kinds of aesthetic experiences tourists seek out by characterizing them as bowing to the will of the herd, succumbing to peer pressure, or simply ...
Aesthetic Disagreement with Oneself as Another
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: Can disagreement with my past self about aesthetic matters give a reason to reconsider my present aesthetic verdict and if it does, under what conditions? In other words, can such a disagreement be a sign of my failing in ...
Is Aesthetic Consistency Worth Having?
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: Should we aspire to aesthetic consistency? Two kinds of aesthetic consistency are considered, following Ted Cohen’s discussion of consistency in personal aesthetics: consistency of aesthetic reasons and coherence of aesthetic ...
Failure as Omission: Missed Opportunities and Retroactive Aesthetic Judgements
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: In this paper I distinguish between different kinds of failures of aesthetic judgements with a view to exploring a form of failure that involves the outright omission of aesthetic judgement. Such omissions come to pass ...
Contemporary Art and the Problem of Indiscernibles: An Adverbialist Approach
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 15. 03. 2023
Abstract: This paper addresses Arthur Danto’s claim that contemporary artworks, such as Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box, do not differ perceptually from ordinary objects, and that in order to see contemporary artworks as art the viewer has ...
Special Issue Editorial, Introduction
Editorial
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: Recent debates on the validity of Aesthetic Testimony and the centrality of the so-called Acquaintance Principle suggest that there is more to the proper exercise of aesthetic judgement than mere endorsement of allegedly ...
What Is Evolutionary Aesthetics? Three Waves
Článek
Date Issued: 15. 03. 2023
Abstract: Evolutionary aesthetics (EA) is often associated with the rise of evolutionary psychology, from roughly the 1980s until the 2010s. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the field but rather a middle wave after ...
The Implied Designer of Digital Games
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 15. 03. 2023
Abstract: As artefacts, the worlds of digital games are designed and developed to fulfil certain expressive, functional, and experiential objectives. During play, players infer these purposes and aspirations from various aspects of ...
Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media by Emmanuel Alloa
Recenze
Date Issued: 15. 03. 2023
Abstract: A book review of Emmanuel Alloa, Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media. Translated by Nils F. Schott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, xiv + 392 pp. ISBN 9780231187923.
Aesthetic Absence and Interpretation
Vědecký článek
Date Issued: 14. 09. 2023
Abstract: At least within the last century, artists have produced works that seem to have something missing. Salvatore Garau’s sculpture Sono is (apparently) composed of empty space; the original drawing at the heart of Robert ...