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Rob van Gerwen, 1996
Art and Experience

Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University
Ph.D. Dissertation

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I
Cognitivist Analytical Aesthetics

Cognitivist Reductions--Introduction to Part I 6

Chapter One
Pictorial Representation

1. Extensionalist Nominalism 9
2. Art, Symbols, and Pictorial Representation 11
3. Pictures and Resemblance 15
4. Convention D (for Depiction) 20
5. Exemplification 24
6. Depiction Based in Exemplification 27
7. Depiction and Discourse 31

Chapter Two
What Aesthetic Judgements Are About

1. Aesthetic Difference 37
2. Aesthetic Properties 40
3. Primary, Secondary, and Aesthetic Qualities 44
4. Subjectivism--Preliminary Remarks 49

Chapter Three
The Definition of Art

1. The Institutional Definition 52
2. Definitions and Purposivity 55
3. Artistic Procedures and Exemplars 57
4. Anti-Art and Four Orders of Artistic Intentionality 59
5. Art's Characteristics 62

Part II
Kant and Baumgarten on Art's Experiential Dimension

Chapter Four
Aesthetic Evaluation, Subjectivism

1. Taste and Common Sense 67
2. Beauty's `Rule' 68
3. Beauty's Independence from Determinate Concepts 70
4. The Free Play's Ambiguous Role 74
5. Everyday Sound Understanding 77
6. An Ideal Aesthetic Experience 79
7. A regulative Principle of Aesthetic Discourse 80

Chapter Five
Aesthetic Moral Relevance

1. Aesthetic Ideas and the Free Play 83
2. The Ideal of Beauty and its Moral Relevance 86
3. Beauty not an Aesthetic Property 90

Chapter Six
Indexicalizing Representation

1. Introduction 95
2. Leibniz's `Individual' 96
3. Human Finiteness and Perception 100
4. Aesthetic Truth(-likeness) 104
5. Art Must Show Moral Dignity 109
6. Mutual Dependence Between Subject and Object 112
7. Aesthetic Qualities 115
8. Conclusions to Part II 117

Part III
Art's Experiential Dimension

Introduction to Part III 120

Chapter Seven
Intimation and Tertiary Qualities.

1. Introduction. 125
2. Intimation of Experience. 126
3. Pictorial Reproduction and Representation 129
4. Art's Threefoldness 131
5. Artistic Expression, and Intimation 133
6. Intimation and Convention 136
7. Musical representation. 140
8. Objective, and Aesthetic Qualities 144
9. Tertiary Qualities 147

Chapter Eight
Imaginativist Subjectivism

1. Introduction 153
2. Embodied Perception and Art's Restricted Address of the Senses 154
3. Perceptual and Imaginative Empathy 158
4. The Task of Art 160
5. Aesthetic Evaluation--Imaginativist Subjectivism 163

Conclusions
Supplements

References 171
Glossary to the Main Terms 176
Index 186
Kunst en Beleving (Samenvatting in het Nederlands--summary in English) 189


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