The Aesthetic Mind

Author : Elisabeth Schellekens,Peter Goldie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191619519

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The Aesthetic Mind by Elisabeth Schellekens,Peter Goldie Pdf

The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social anthropology: they explore the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, ranging over visual and literary art, music, and dance. Among the questions discussed are: Why do we engage with things aesthetically and why do we create art? Does art or aesthetic experience have a function or functions? Which characteristics distinguish aesthetic mental states? Which skills or abilities do we put to use when we engage aesthetically with an object and how does that compare with non-aesthetic experiences? What does our ability to create art and engage aesthetically with things tell us about what it is to be a human being? This ambitious and far-reaching volume is essential reading for anyone investigating the aesthetic and the artistic.

Author : Elisabeth Schellekens,Peter Goldie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199691517

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The Aesthetic Mind by Elisabeth Schellekens,Peter Goldie Pdf

The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and literary art, music, and dance.

Author : Anjan Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199811809

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The Aesthetic Brain by Anjan Chatterjee Pdf

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all.

Author : Tone Roald,Johannes Lang
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401209045

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Art and Identity by Tone Roald,Johannes Lang Pdf

Art has the capacity to shape and alter our identities. It can influence who and what we are. Those who have had aesthetic experiences know this intimately, and yet the study of art’s impact on the mind struggles to be recognized as a centrally important field within the discipline of psychology. The main thesis of Art and Identity is that aesthetic experience represents a prototype for meaningful experience, warranting intense philosophical and psychological investigation. Currently psychology remains too closed-off from the rich reflection of philosophical aesthetics, while philosophy continues to be sceptical of the psychological reduction of art to its potential for Subjective experience. At the same time, philosophical aesthetics cannot escape making certain assumptions about the psyche and benefits from entering into a dialogue with psychology. Art and Identity brings together philosophical and psychological perspectives on aesthetics in order to explore how art creates minds.

Author : Alfonsina Scarinzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401793797

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Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy by Alfonsina Scarinzi Pdf

The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)—one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with—and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino. The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.

Author : Elisabeth Schellekens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804680954

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The Aesthetic Mind by Elisabeth Schellekens Pdf

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199732142

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Aesthetic Science by Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer Pdf

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an 'aesthetic' experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye of the beholder? This book addresses the nature of aesthetic experience from the perspectives of philosophy psychology and neuroscience.

Author : RENTSCHLER,EPSTEIN,PÖPPEL
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783034863506

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Beauty and the Brain by RENTSCHLER,EPSTEIN,PÖPPEL Pdf

Author : Benjamin Morgan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226462202

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The Outward Mind by Benjamin Morgan Pdf

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-known archives of Victorian intellectuals such as William Morris, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and others to argue that scientific studies of mind and emotion transformed the way writers and artists understood the experience of beauty and effectively redescribed aesthetic judgment as a biological adaptation. Looking beyond the Victorian period to humanistic critical theory today, he also shows how the historical relationship between science and aesthetics could be a vital resource for rethinking key concepts in contemporary literary and cultural criticism, such as materialism, empathy, practice, and form. At a moment when the tumultuous relationship between the sciences and the humanities is the subject of ongoing debate, Morgan argues for the importance of understanding the arts and sciences as incontrovertibly intertwined.

Author : Gerald C. Cupchik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107024458

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The Aesthetics of Emotion by Gerald C. Cupchik Pdf

Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art.

Author : Philip Salim Francis,Randall Herbert Balmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190279769

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When Art Disrupts Religion by Philip Salim Francis,Randall Herbert Balmer Pdf

The stories gathered in these pages lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and rework deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. This book grounds its narrative in the accounts of 82 Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of religious identity through the intervention of the arts. "There never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one young man, "without my encounter with the transcendent work of Mark Rothko on that rainy afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to feel like family to me," reports another individual, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their stories unfold, the subjects of the study describe the arts as sources of, by turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and field notes, Philip Salim Franics explores the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and offers an important new resource for on-going debates about the role of the arts in education and social life.

Author : Elisabeth Schellekens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441122988

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Aesthetics and Morality by Elisabeth Schellekens Pdf

Aesthetic and moral value are often seen to go hand in hand. They do so not only practically, such as in our everyday assessments of artworks that raise moral questions, but also theoretically, such as in Kant's theory that beauty is the symbol of morality. Some philosophers have argued that it is in the relation between aesthetic and moral value that the key to an adequate understanding of either notion lies. But difficult questions abound. Must a work of art be morally admirable in order to be aesthetically valuable? How, if at all, do our moral values shape our aesthetic judgements - and vice versa? Aesthetics and Morality is a stimulating and insightful inquiry into precisely this set of questions. Elisabeth Schellekens explores the main ideas and debates at the intersection of aesthetics and moral philosophy. She invites readers to reflect on the nature of beauty, art and morality, and provides the philosophical knowledge to render such reflection more rigorous. This original, inspiring and entertaining book sheds valuable new light on a notably complex and challenging area of thought.

Author : Anjan Chatterjee,Eileen Cardilo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197513620

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Brain, Beauty, and Art by Anjan Chatterjee,Eileen Cardilo Pdf

Frameworks -- Beauty -- Art -- Music -- Dance -- Architecture.

Author : Tom Cochrane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192665072

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The Aesthetic Value of the World by Tom Cochrane Pdf

In The Aesthetic Value of the World, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism, the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. Cochrane grounds his account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as 'objectified final value', which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values. This is followed by systematic accounts of beauty, sublimity, comedy, drama, and tragedy, as well as appendix entries on the cute, the cool, the kitsch, the uncanny, the horrific, the erotic, and the furious.

Author : Greg Currie,Matthew Kieran,Aaron Meskin,Jon Robson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191648403

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Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind by Greg Currie,Matthew Kieran,Aaron Meskin,Jon Robson Pdf

Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and reflective methods, often tied to the idea that philosophy's business is primarily to analyze concepts. This 'philosophy from the armchair' approach contrasts with methods used by psychologists, sociologists, evolutionary thinkers, and others who study the making and reception of the arts empirically. How far should philosophers be sensitive to the results of these studies? Is their own largely a priori method basically flawed? Are their views on aesthetic value, interpretation, imagination, and the emotions of art to be rethought in the light of best science? The essays in this volume seek answers to these questions, many through detailed studies of problems traditionally regarded as philosophical but where empirical inquiry seems to be shedding interesting light. No common view is looked for or found in this volume: a number of authors argue that the current enthusiasm for scientific approaches to aesthetics is based on a misunderstanding of the philosophical enterprise and sometimes on misinterpretation of the science; others suggest various ways that philosophy can and should accommodate and sometimes yield to the empirical approach. The editors provide a substantial introduction which sets the scene historically and conceptually before summarizing the claims and arguments of the essays.