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Aesthetic Cognitivism

Anna Marmodoro    Durham University, UK    

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abstract

Is beauty a feature of objects in the world; or a feature of our individual experience of objects; or the result of aesthetic education and training, modulated by social culture? I argue that aesthetic properties are like perceptual properties, understood as Constitutionalism explains them: as real features of objects in the world that fully manifest themselves only in causal interaction with suitable perceivers. I here develop Constitutionalism to provide a metaphysical account of aesthetic properties in terms of causal powers. Like perceptual properties, aesthetic properties are (multi-track and multi-stage) powers of objects that mutually manifest with relevant powers of the perceiver. On this basis, I argue that aesthetic judgements, like perceptual judgements, are apt for truth and falsity, and their truth value derives from the reliable experiences that produce them.

Published
June 30, 2020
Accepted
April 1, 2020
Submitted
March 23, 2020
Language
EN

Keywords: Aesthetic properties • Reliabilism • Causal powers • Perceptual properties • Cognitivism • Constitutionalism

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma//2020/01/003

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