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...Nick Riggle A theory of aesthetic value should explain what makes aesthetic value good. Current views about what makes aesthetic value good privilege the individual’s encounter with aesthetic value—listening to music, reading a novel, writing a poem, or viewing a painting. What makes aesthetic...

...Robert Stecker Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x + 147 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x + 147 pp. This elegant, terse...

...Paul Guyer Beiser Frederick C. , Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . x + 295 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s...

...Christopher Williams Frank Sibley, Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics. Edited by John Benson, Betty Redfern, and Jeremy Roxbee Cox. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 280. Cornell University 2003...

...Jerrold Levinson THE AESTHETICS OF MUSIC. By Roger Scruton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 530. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2000) THE AESTHETICS OF MUSIC...

... to the demonstration, and supply examples essential to the clarifi cation of these concepts. The theses may sound like throwbacks to aesthetics circa 1970. The impression is understandable since Iseminger’s purpose is to defend a con- ception of the value of art derived from the aestheticism...

...Paul Guyer Zuckert Rachel , Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . xii + 266 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 This is not just an important work on Herder, on the history of aesthetics in the eighteenth-century, or on the “hinge...

... between the agent and others, which conflicts intractably with a presupposition of consequentialism. This allows him to differentiate three potentially conflicting evaluative spheres: morality, prudence, and aesthetics. This essay's account of Mill's utilitarianism coheres with his defense of individual...

... Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-Temporality in Action .” Adaptive Behavior 17 , no. 5 : 367 – 86 . Best David 1974 . “ The Aesthetic in Sport .” British Journal of Aesthetics 14 , no. 3 : 197 – 213 . Bogost Ian 2010 . Persuasive Games...

... with specialized issues in aesthetics and biology, Ginsborg argues that these two Critiques are of a piece because they both make an invaluable contribution to Kant's theory of cognition. It is, in particular, Kant's analysis of the reflecting power of judgment in the third Critique that, Ginsborg claims...

...: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. x þ 295 pp. Frederick Beiser aims not only to describe but also to defend what he calls “aesthetic rationalism,” the aesthetic theory developed in eighteenth-century Germany by followers of Gottfried...

...José Luis Bermúdez Parikh Prashant , Language and Equilibrium . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2010 . xiii +334 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz...

...Ram Neta Stanley Jason , Knowledge and Practical Interests . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2005 . xi +208 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz...

... Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. x þ 295 pp. Frederick Beiser aims not only to describe but also to defend what he calls “aesthetic rationalism,” the aesthetic theory developed in eighteenth-century Germany by followers...

... . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. x þ 295 pp. Frederick Beiser aims not only to describe but also to defend what he calls...

...) A PHILOSOPHY OF MASS ART By NOEL CARROLL.Oxford: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 425. The chief sources of aesthetic experience for most people around the world are now the mass broadcasting and recording technologies. Yet an- alytic aesthetics has had little to say about mass art...

... philosophical treatments of art that are implicitly or explicitly allegiant to it. This is to be done by inaugurating a new mode of paying philosophical attention to art, one that is adequately responsive to “the many ways in which we human beings engage works of the arts other than as objects of aesthetic...

...Todd Buras Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action . New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 167 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x...

... to the demonstration, and supply examples essential to the clarifi cation of these concepts. The theses may sound like throwbacks to aesthetics circa 1970. The impression is understandable since Iseminger’s purpose is to defend a con- ception of the value of art derived from the aestheticism...

...Michael Ridge; Sean McKeever Jonathan Dancy, Ethics without Principles . Oxford: Clarendon, 2004. x + 229 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x + 147 pp...