Ročník 2023
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Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies by Matthew Strohl
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)A book review of Matthew Strohl, Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies. New York: Routledge, 2022, 206 pp. ISBN 9780367407650. -
In Defence of Tourists
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 Absence and Interpretation
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 ... -
Aesthetic Disagreement with Oneself as Another
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 ... -
Failure as Omission: Missed Opportunities and Retroactive Aesthetic Judgements
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 ... -
Is Aesthetic Consistency Worth Having?
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 ... -
Special Issue Editorial, Introduction
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-09-14)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 ... -
Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media by Emmanuel Alloa
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)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. -
What Is Evolutionary Aesthetics? Three Waves
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)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
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)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 ... -
The Pictorial Narrator
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)In our everyday discourse we make frequent reference to pictorial narratives. We exclaim on the hunt scene in the cave painting, the frenzy unfolding in the graffiti, the adventure of the baby in the book illustration, and ... -
Aesthetic Engagement and Soundscape: A Case of Convenience Store Woman, a Contemporary Japanese Novel
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)The award-winning novel Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, first published in 2016 as コンビニ人間 (Konbini ningen), has received a lot of media attention from readers of both the original Japanese version and the English ... -
Contemporary Art and the Problem of Indiscernibles: An Adverbialist Approach
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)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 ... -
Emilia Dilke on Aesthetics
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Helsinki, 2023-03-15)This article contributes to recovering the history of women’s contributions to aesthetics by examining Emilia Dilke’s writings on aesthetics from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s. Initially, Dilke took the historicist view ...
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