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41Review: Budd and Brady on the Aesthetics of Nature (review)Philosophical Quarterly 55 (218). 2005.This essay is a critical notice of Malcolm Budd's _The Aesthetics of Nature (Oxford, 2002) and Emily Brady's _Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh, 2003). I argue that, although each of the volumes makes an important contribution to our understanding of the aesthetic experience of nature, the accounts of aesthetic appreciation of nature that are developed by Budd and Brady are each somewhat defective in that neither grants an adequate role to knowledge in such appreciation, and speci…Read more
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45Placing Nature: Culture and Landscape Ecology (review)Environmental Ethics 22 (2): 211-214. 2000.
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6On The Aesthetic Appreciation Of Japanese GardensBritish Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1): 47-56. 1997.
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107On the aesthetic appreciation of japanese gardensBritish Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1): 47-56. 1997.
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45On appreciating agricultural landscapesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (3): 301-312. 1985.
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168Nature, aesthetic judgment, and objectivityJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1): 15-27. 1981.
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316Nature and positive aestheticsEnvironmental Ethics 6 (1): 5-34. 1984.Positive aesthetics holds that the natural environment, insofar as it is unaffected by man, has only positive aesthetic qualities and value-that virgin nature is essentially beautiful. In spite of the initial implausibility of this position, it is nonetheless suggested by many individuals who have given serious thought to the natural environment and to environmental philosophy. Certain attempts to defend theposition involve claiming either that it is not implausible because our appreciation of n…Read more
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165Nature, aesthetic appreciation, and knowledgeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (4): 393-400. 1995.
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95Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (4). 1986.In this discussion I consider one aesthetic issue which arises from certain intimate relationships between art and nature. The background to these relationships can be traced to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It includes factors of considerable importance in the history of the aesthetic appreciation of nature such as the eighteenth century infatuation with landscape gardening and the continuingly influential role of landscape painting. Here, however, I concentrate on these relationshi…Read more
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111Environmental Aesthetics, Ethics, and EcoaestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 399-410. 2018.This essay is an overview of recent research aimed at establishing a link between environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics. I review the work of several prominent environmental philosophers and environmental aestheticians, spelling out some of the difficulties confronting various attempts to find such a link. While I argue that a case can be made for a connection between environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics concerning human‐created and human‐influenced environments, I find …Read more
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34Environmental Aesthetics and the Dilemma of Aesthetic EducationThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 10 (2): 69. 1976.
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8Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels, eds., The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past EnvironmentsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 196-198. 1989.
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9Charlotte Klonk, Science and The Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (4): 419-422. 1998.
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122Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics and the Requirements of EnvironmentalismEnvironmental Values 19 (3). 2010.Since aesthetic experience is vital for the protection of nature, I address the relationship between environmental aesthetics and environmentalism. I first review two traditional positions, the picturesque approach and formalism. Some environmentalists fault the modes of aesthetic appreciation associated with these views, charging they are anthropocentric, scenery-obsessed, superficial, subjective, and/or morally vacuous. In light of these apparent failings of traditional aesthetics of nature, I…Read more
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10Appleton, Jay. The Symbolism of Habitat: An Interpretation of Landscape in The ArtsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (1): 79-79. 1992.
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342Appreciation and the natural environmentJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (3): 267-275. 1979.
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148Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and EnvironmentalismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 69 137-155. 2011.This article is a response to yuriko saito's "is there a correct aesthetic appreciation of nature?" (jae 18:4) which challenges the position on the aesthetic appreciation of nature that i develop in a series of recent articles. i here consider saito's arguments, concluding that they neither establish the correctness of a wide range of kinds of aesthetic appreciations of nature nor undercut the grounds for the prominence i grant to scientific considerations in such appreciation
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50Budd and Brady on the Aesthetics of Nature (review)Philosophical Quarterly 55 (218). 2005.This essay is a critical notice of Malcolm Budd's _The Aesthetics of Nature (Oxford, 2002) and Emily Brady's _Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh, 2003). I argue that, although each of the volumes makes an important contribution to our understanding of the aesthetic experience of nature, the accounts of aesthetic appreciation of nature that are developed by Budd and Brady are each somewhat defective in that neither grants an adequate role to knowledge in such appreciation, and speci…Read more