•  386
    Some Questions for Ecological Aesthetics
    Environmental Philosophy 13 (1): 123-135. 2016.
    Ecology has become a popular conceptual model in numerous fields of inquiry and it seems especially appropriate for environmental philosophy. Apart from its literal employment in biology, ecology has served as a useful metaphor that captures the interdependence of factors in a field of research. At the same time as ecology is suggestive, it cannot be followed literally or blindly. This paper considers the appropriateness of the uses to which ecology has been put in some recent discussions of arc…Read more
  •  297
    The Soft Side of Stone
    Environmental Philosophy 4 (1-2): 49-58. 2007.
    Stone represents the firmness and intransigence of the world within which we live and act. But beyond the perception and appropriations of stone, diverse meanings lie hidden between the hardness of stone and its uses. At the same time meaning must be grounded in the stabilizing presence of a common world. Yet if all that can be said is not about stone simpliciter but only an aesthetics of its perception, uses, and meanings, have we not gained the whole world but lost its reality? The underlying …Read more
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    P. Diesing's "Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions" (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23 (3): 453. 1963.
  •  219
    The Idea of a Cultural Aesthetic
    Dialogue and Universalism 13 (11-12): 113-122. 2003.
    In this time of increasing international involvement, one cannot but be struck by the fact of sharply different traditions concerning art and its practice.3 Recognizing that the arts are a salient part of every culture may lead us to wonder about their features and may make us curious about how and why the arts of other cultures differ from what we find more familiar. Perhaps we hope that the arts will offer us some insight into different cultures and their distinctive worlds. This, then, is in …Read more
  •  292
    Making Theory, Making Sense: Comments on Ronald Moore's Natural Beauty
    Ethics, Place and Environment 12 (3): 337-341. 2009.
    The broad scope and coherence of Natural Beauty are among its major strengths. Moore's syncretic theory tries to integrate diverse and sometimes conflicting theoretical strands. Of special importance is his recognition that the natural world is a social institution embodying perceptions that are conditioned, experiences communicated through language, and social beliefs and conventions. These lead him to consider the natural world as actually artifactual, and he terms it the 'natureworld'. Among …Read more
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    The Environment and the Arts (edited book)
    Ashgate Press. 2002.
    The environment raises basic questions about many of the fundamental concepts and doctrines in aesthetics and the arts. Including new work by the leading international contributors to environmental aesthetics, this is the first book to deal with the relations between the arts and environment, directed towards a non-philosophical audience of practitioners and critics, as well as theorists. Introducing many for the basic ideas and issues in the theory of the arts, particularly as they bear on envi…Read more
  •  106
    The Aesthetics of Human Environments (edited book)
    Broadview Press. 2007.
    The Aesthetics of Human Environments is a companion volume to Carlson's and Berleant's The Aesthetics of Natural Environments. Whereas the earlier collection focused on the aesthetic appreciation of nature, The Aesthetics of Human Environments investigates philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise from our engagement with human environments ranging from rural landscapes to urban cityscapes. Our experience of public spaces such as shopping centers, theme parks, and gardens as well as the imp…Read more
  •  14
    Poetic Creation: Inspiration or Craft (review)
    Philosophy and Literature 5 (1): 117-118. 1981.
  •  682
    Reconsidering Scenic Beauty
    Environmental Values 19 (3). 2010.
    Attempts to justify the objectivity and universality of aesthetic judgment have traditionally rested on unsupported assumptions or mere assertion. This paper offers a fresh consideration of the problem of judgments of taste. It suggests that the problem of securing universal agreement is false and therefore insoluble since it imposes an inappropriate logical criterion on the extent of agreement, which is irrevocably empirical. The variability of judgments of taste actually forms a subject ripe f…Read more
  •  214
    The persistence of dogma in aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (2): 237-239. 1994.
    By the close of the eighteenth century, many features of Western intellectual history had become incorporated into a coherent body of aesthetic doctrine that soon acquired the standing of tradition. "The three dogmas of aesthetics" is Allen Carlson's fitting designation of the main principles by which I have characterized this theory: that "art consists primarily of objects," that "these objects possess a special status," and that "they must be regarded in a unique way." Held against the practic…Read more
  • Nicholas Rescher, Introduction to Value Theory (review)
    Journal of Value Inquiry 5 (3): 235. 1971.
  • The Ethical Factor in Business Decisions: Essays toward Criteria
    Journal of Business Ethics 2 (1): 69-71. 1983.
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    M. Levich , "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism" (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (3): 441. 1965.
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    Surrogate theories of art
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30 (2): 163-185. 1969.
  •  17
    The verbal presence: An aesthetics of literary performance
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (3): 339-346. 1973.
  •  2
    Review: Art, Artistry and Sculpture (review)
    Human Studies 8 (2). 1985.
  •  13
    The Muses (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (2): 165-166. 2003.
  •  189
    Naturalism and Aesthetic Experience
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (3). 1995.
    In my recent book, Art and Engagement (1991), I develop the idea of aesthetic engagement as central to the appreciation of art. The human contribution to the constitution of the "work" of art, I claim, is a critical part of appreciative experience. This contribution, however, is easily misread into the history of the idea of experience that has dominated Western philosophy since the seventeenth century, a history that sees experience as an inner, personal, subjective affair. From this vantage po…Read more
  •  91
    The Aesthetics of Environment
    Temple University Press. 1995.
    Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline that explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is not merely a setting for people but is fully integrated and continuous with us, The Aesthetics of Environment explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environmental continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations. From outer space to the museum, from architecture to landscape, from city to…Read more
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    The Theory of the Arts (review)
    Philosophy and Literature 8 (2): 279-284. 1984.
  • Spuścizna Deweyowskiej estetyki
    Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy) 37. 2010.
  •  245
    The sensuous and the sensual in aesthetics
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 23 (2): 185-192. 1964.
  • O Czym Milczą Tytuły
    Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy) 37. 2010.
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    The historicity of aesthetics — I
    British Journal of Aesthetics 26 (2): 101-111. 1986.
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    The business practices of multinational corporations raise many provocative moral issues and offer a touchstone for some fundamental ethical concepts. This essay identifies a wide range of problems but centers on the matter of consistency in corporate policy between foreign and domestic practices and the kind of generality of standards that is required to achieve consistency. Two considerations are singled out for illustrative discussion: wage scales and bribes. Proposals are offered for achievi…Read more
  •  3
    T. Brunius' "Theory and Taste: Four Studies in Aesthetics" (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 31 (4): 615. 1971.
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    The aesthetic field
    Thomas. 1970.
    The Aesthetic Field develops an account of aesthetic experience that distinguishes four mutually interacting factors: the creative factor represented primarily by the artist; the appreciative one by the viewer, listener, or reader; the objective factor by the art object, which is the focus of the experience; and the performative by the activator of the aesthetic occurrence. Each of these factors both affects all the others and is in turn influenced by them, so none can be adequately considered…Read more
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    V. Tejera's "Art and Human Intelligence" (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (2): 307. 1968.