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55A Tour of the SensesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 59 (4): 357-371. 2019.Traditionally, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch have been designated ‘nonaesthetic’ senses and their objects considered unsuited to be fashioned into works of fine art. Recent innovations in the art world, however, have introduced scents, tastes, and tactile qualities into gallery exhibits, movements that, at least superficially, appear parallel to philosophical revaluations of the senses. This paper investigates the aesthetic scope of the five external senses, addressing some standa…Read more
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21Things: In Touch with the PastOup Usa. 2019.Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.
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15IntroductionThe Monist 101 (3): 235-236. 2018.This special issue of The Monist on food adds to the growing number of philosophical treatments of food, drink, the sense of taste, and the activity of eating. Indeed, the last two decades have witnessed a burgeoning theoretical literature on these subjects. This issue not only continues the conversations already begun, but also offers some innovative speculations about how the discussion might continue. Thus the reader will find here perspectives both familiar and novel.
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11What Beauty Promises:: SymposiumBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 193-198. 2010.Alexander Nehamas calls beauty a ‘promise of happiness’ and claims that it is an object of love. While this approach appealingly places beauty at the center of both artistic passion and everyday life, it also renders it riskily personal. This discussion raises two main questions to Nehamas. The first question regards the role of happiness in the concept of beauty, for many beautiful artworks seem to acknowledge the inevitability of sorrow rather than its opposite. The second question concerns ho…Read more
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86The eclipse of truth in the rise of aestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 29 (4): 293-302. 1989.
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47The Compass in the EyeThe Monist 76 (4): 508-523. 1993.“Of all the fine arts, drawing is indisputably the most useful, the most positive, and the most capable of practical application,” declared Sigismond Schuster, author of one of the many popular drawing books of the nineteenth century. “It might in this respect be classed rather among the useful than the ornamental arts, for it is the basis of them all, and is an indispensable auxiliary to every mechanic. Drawing is the language of nature and of the imagination; it secures ease and steadiness to …Read more
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29The Triumph of Time: Romanticism ReduxJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (4): 429-435. 2014.
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45The meaning of taste Andi the taste of meaningIn Alex Neill & Aaron Ridley (eds.), Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Routledge. pp. 30. 2008.
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25The two beauties: A perspective on Hutcheson's aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (2): 145-151. 1979.
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62Real Old ThingsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 56 (3): 219-231. 2016.Although we experience many cultural artifacts by way of reproductions, there remains a particular thrill in experiencing genuine objects—‘real things’. I argue that genuineness is a property that possesses many dimensions of value, including aesthetic value. Typically, aesthetic qualities are perceptual, but genuineness is not a perceptual property. I investigate the aesthetic dimensions of genuineness by considering the role of touch in encounters with old things, using the example of an ancie…Read more
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2Rita Felski, Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (12): 489-492. 1990.
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182Touch and the Experience of the GenuineBritish Journal of Aesthetics 52 (4): 365-377. 2012.Genuineness is an important property of objects that are rare, old, or preserved as memorials. Being genuine enhances economic value for objects such as works of art, and it is obviously critical for historical purposes, such as assessing the artefacts from a past culture. Here I argue that genuineness is also an aesthetic property that delivers an experience of its own. I contend that the sense of touch covertly operates in such experiences, as this sense conveys the impression of being in cont…Read more
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125Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in AestheticsOxford University Press. 2010.Disgust is a strong aversion, yet paradoxically it can constitute an appreciative aesthetic response to works of art. Artistic disgust can be funny, profound, sorrowful, or gross. This book examines numerous examples of disgust as it is aroused by art and offers a set of explanations for its aesthetic appeal.
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11Terrible BeautiesIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell. pp. 51--63. 2006.
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2TasteIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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54Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2): 233-235. 2008.
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64Pleasure: Reflections on aesthetics and feminismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (2): 199-206. 1993.
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60Taste and other senses: Reconsidering the foundations of aestheticsNordic Journal of Aesthetics 26 (54). 2018.The sense of taste has served as a governing metaphor for aesthetic discernment for several centuries, and recent philosophical perspectives on this history have invited literal, gustatory taste into aesthetic relevance. This paper summarizes the disposition of taste in aesthetics by means of three stories, the most recent of which considers food in terms of aesthetics and its employment in works of art. I conclude with some reflections on the odd position that taste has achieved in the postmode…Read more
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4Reason and Morals in the Early Feminist Movement: Mary WollstonecraftPhilosophical Forum 5 (1): 97. 1973.
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