Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement?
It is commonplace amongst philosophers of art to make claims which postulate important links between aesthetics and perception. In this paper, I focus on one such claim: that perception is the canonical route to aesthetic judgement. I consider a range of prima facie plausible interpretations of this...
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| description | It is commonplace amongst philosophers of art to make claims which postulate important links between aesthetics and perception. In this paper, I focus on one such claim: that perception is the canonical route to aesthetic judgement. I consider a range of prima facie plausible interpretations of this claim and argue that they each fail to identify any important link between aesthetic judgement and perception. Given this, I conclude that we have good reason to be sceptical of the claim that perception is in any way privileged as a source of aesthetic judgement. |
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| spelling | nottingham-470512020-05-04T19:35:32Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47051/ Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? Robson, Jon It is commonplace amongst philosophers of art to make claims which postulate important links between aesthetics and perception. In this paper, I focus on one such claim: that perception is the canonical route to aesthetic judgement. I consider a range of prima facie plausible interpretations of this claim and argue that they each fail to identify any important link between aesthetic judgement and perception. Given this, I conclude that we have good reason to be sceptical of the claim that perception is in any way privileged as a source of aesthetic judgement. Taylor & Francis 2018-05-03 Article PeerReviewed Robson, Jon (2018) Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? Australasian Journal of Philosophy . ISSN 1471-6828 https://aap.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964 doi:10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964 doi:10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964 |
| spellingShingle | Robson, Jon Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title | Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title_full | Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title_fullStr | Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title_short | Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
| title_sort | is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? |
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