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344The lamp of memoryEuropean Journal of Philosophy 8 (1). 2000.Book reviewed in this article:John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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161Nelson Goodman's ‘languages of art’: A studyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 11 (1): 3-27. 1971.Reviews goodman's claims about representation, Expression and identity of works of art. Claims that the underlying nominalist logic effectively prohibits our understanding of these notions (pace goodman) and leaves everything which is of specific artistic and aesthetic interest out of account
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121Kant’s Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic JudgmentMind 111 (442): 355-360. 2002.
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118VIII—The Place of Intention in the Concept of ArtProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69 (1): 101-124. 1969.Anthony Savile; VIII—The Place of Intention in the Concept of Art, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 69, Issue 1, 1 June 1969, Pages 101–124, http.
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112Objectivity in aesthetic judgement: Eva Schaper on KantBritish Journal of Aesthetics 21 (4): 363-369. 1981.
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104SentimentalityIn Alex Neill & Aaron Ridley (eds.), Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Routledge. pp. 223--227. 2008.
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79Imagination and aesthetic valueBritish Journal of Aesthetics 46 (3): 248-258. 2006.One issue for theory is to account convincingly for the value of art and the significance of its specifically aesthetic character. Appeal to imagination, understood along Kantian lines as functioning to construct ‘a second nature from the material supplied by actual nature’, generates suggestive answers to both aspects of the task. The second nature that the artist inventively constructs in fine representation is one in which themes central to the inner life are revealed in ways as unestranging …Read more
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74Aesthetic experience in shaftesbury: Anthony SavileAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 76 (1). 2002.[Richard Glauser] Shaftesbury's theory of aesthetic experience is based on his conception of a natural disposition to apprehend beauty, a real 'form' of things. I examine the implications of the disposition's naturalness. I argue that the disposition is not an extra faculty or a sixth sense, and attempt to situate Shaftesbury's position on this issue between those of Locke and Hutcheson. I argue that the natural disposition is to be perfected in many different ways in order to be exercised in th…Read more
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70The Concept of Expression: A Study in Philosophical Psychology and AestheticsPhilosophical Quarterly 22 (89): 378. 1972.
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66Leibniz's Contribution to the Theory of Innate IdeasPhilosophy 47 (180). 1972.Does Leibniz really worst Locke in respect of innate ideas, as is frequently supposed, or does Locke emerge more or less whole from their epistemological dispute? I shall here argue that Leibniz does far less well than we might like to believe and that his substantive proposals, where not entirely innocuous, contain little that would appeal to anyone interested in a modern form of the innateness thesis
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63Spinoza, Medea, and Irrationality in ActionDialogue 42 (4): 767. 2003.Nous ecartons ici deux tentatives visant a rendre compte de l’irrationalite de l’action akratique au sein du systeme de Spinoza: celle contenue dans Spinoza meme et une seconde toute recente, due a della Rocca, qui pretend parler au nom de Spinoza. Nous tracons a larges traits une troisieme voie, laquelle n’est pas manifestement en porte-a-faux avec les principes de la psychologie morale de Spinoza. Cette tentative tourne autour d’une conception du conatus integrant un element normatif et subjec…Read more
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51Natural Beauty, Reflective Judgment and Kant’s Aesthetic HumanismBritish Journal of Aesthetics 61 (2): 199-211. 2021.Kant’s concern for the universal validity of aesthetic judgment turns on its providing a needed bridge between our understanding of the world as governed by mechanical laws and our ability freely to realize our true humanity. That obliges us to find beauty in nature that is expressive of our ethical and moral values. It shapes the way we should understand aesthetic judgment itself.
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40Is there still life in Still Life?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 71 67-84. 2012.In his literary autobiography, Le vent Paraclet , Michel Tournier records how during his time at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly he and his fellow classmates found a source of great hilarity in their favourite bêtisier , a volume called Pensées de Pascal , in which one learns that painting is a frivolous exercise that consists in imperfectly reproducing objects that are themselves quite worthless. Fairness to Pascal – far from Tournier's mind in those early days – demands that that offending pensée…Read more
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40Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of ImaginationBritish Journal of Aesthetics 60 (1): 106-110. 2020.Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination Mojca Küplen Springer. 2015. pp. 152. £74.99
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39Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Leibniz and the MonadologyRoutledge. 2000.Leibniz is a major figure in western philosophy and, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of the Rationalist School. The _Monadology_ is his most famous work and one of the most important works of modern philosophy. _Leibniz and the Monadology_ introduces and assesses: *Leibniz's life and the background to the _Monadology_ *the ideas and text of the _Monadology_*Leibniz's continuing importance to philosophy Leibniz and the Monadology is ideal for anyone coming to …Read more
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