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260Aesthetics—what? Why? And wherefore?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2). 2007.It is a very great honor to address my friends and colleagues as president of the American Society for Aesthetics, an organization that plays a unique role in a field that is, at once, a major traditional branch of philosophy and also central to disciplines often regarded as remote from philosophy, as well as depending crucially on their contributions
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