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1 online resource |
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Cover; Aesthetics on the Edge: Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Sources; Contents; Introduction; The Spreadsheet; The First Rule of Aesthetics Methodology; Work in Three Acts; Methods: Bridging Two Cultures; Modes and Means; References; PART I: Methods; 1: Aesthetics in Three Dimensions; A Picture of the Field; Methodology in Three Dimensions; Traditional Methods; Second-Order Methods; References; 2: Feckless Reason; Criticism: Some Platitudes; Criticism in Philosophical Methodology; Debunking Explanations in Aesthetics |
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'I Know What I Like When I See It'Reasoning in Choice; The Methodological Lesson; Reasons and Reasoning; References; 3: Shikinen Sengu: The Ontology of Architecture in Japan; Ontology and Culture; Shikinen Sengu; Museum and Theatre; References; 4: Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetic Science: Prospects for Integration; The Aesthetic Sciences; Philosophical Theories of Aesthetic Response; The Fragility of Aesthetic Response; A Critical Contribution; Towards Integration; References; PART II: Modes; 5: Art Media and the Sense Modalities: Tactile Pictures; The Specificity of Art Media |
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Pictures as VisualTactile Pictures and Blind People; Molyneux's Question; Succession and Simultaneity; The Visual Field; Perspective and Space; Pictures and Vision; Conclusions; References; 6: Vision, Touch, and the Value of Pictures; References; 7: Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; References; 8: In the Eye of the Beholder; Four Assumptions about the Aesthetic; Challenge: Literature and Conceptual Art; Experience Without the Senses; Rich Perceptual Contents; Encoding Sense Experience; Encoding Aesthetic Information; Towards an Argument; References; PART III: Means |
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9: Directive PicturesVisuomotor Representation; Some Directive Pictures; Affordance and Seeing How; Pictorial Jigs; Directive Representation; References; 10: Drawing in a Social Science: Lithic Illustration; Drawing in Archaeology; Realism and Rhetoric in Reconstruction Drawings; Lithic Illustration; Drawing in History; An Epistemology of Lithic Drawing; References; 11: An Empathic Eye; Empathy and Seeing in Pictures; The Empathy Complex; Empathic Skill; The Expressive Power of Pictures; Pictorial Referencing; References; Index |
| Summary |
"Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic and aesthetic phenomena. Dominic McIver Lopes argues for a new approach that mandates closer integration, from the start, between aesthetics and the human sciences. In these eleven essays he proposes a methodology especially suited to aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed principally by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Since the human sciences include much of the humanities as well as the social, behavioural, and brain sciences, the methodology promises to integrate arts research across the academy. Aesthetics on the Edge opens with a four essays outlining the methodology and its potential. The following essays put the methodology to work, shedding light on the perceptual and social-pragmatic capacities that are implicated in responding to works of art, especially images, but also music, literature, and conceptual art."-- Provided by publisher |
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This book proposes a new methodology for aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Lopes then puts the methodology to work, illuminating the perceptual and social-pragmatic capacities involved in responding to works of visual art, literature, and music |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- Methodology
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Social sciences.
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Aesthetics -- Methodology.
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Social sciences.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192516732 |
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0192516736 |
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9780191860829 |
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0191860824 |
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