Understanding Kant's distinction between free and dependent beauty

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 206, 2002, Pages 66-81

  Mallaband, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34250837790     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00253     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. See M. Budd, 'Delight in the Natural World: Kant on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature: Part I: Natural Beauty', British Journal of Aesthetics, 38 (1998), pp. 1-18
2. C. Janaway, 'Kant's Aesthetics and the Empty Cognitive Stock', The Philosophical Quarterly, 47 (1997), PP. 459-76. References to Critique of Judgement are to the translation by J.C. Meredith (Oxford UP, 1952)
3. P. Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Taste (Harvard UP, 1979), p. 249
4. Some might deny that 'is aesthetically valuable' picks out a concept different from 'is beautiful': see Mary Mothersill, Beauty Restored (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), ch. 9
5. Perhaps minimal conceptual content contains only those theory-neutral concepts which are observational, in the sense intended by Jerry Fodor in his 'Observation Reconsidered', Philosophy of Science, 51 (1984), pp. 23-43