On the cluster account of art

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 379-385

  Adajian, Thomas ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049376051     PISSN: 00070904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.4.379     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), §77
2. M. Weitz: 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 15 (1956), pp. 27-35
3. reprinted in J. Margolis, Philosophy Looks at the Arts (Philadelphia, PA: Temple U.P., 1987)
4. and earlier, Paul Ziff, 'The Task of Defining a Work of Art', Philosophical Review, vol. 62 (1951). Criticisms of Weitz are found, among other places
5. in F. N. Sibley, 'Is Art an Open Concept? An Unsettled Question', Proceedings of the IVth International Congress of Aesthetics (Athens, 1960), Stephen Davies, Definitions of Art (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 1991)
6. and Noël Carroll, Philosophy of Art (London: Routledge, 1999)
7. Gaut's paper must have circulated in some form for some time, since it is discussed in Robert Stecker's 1997 book Artworks: Definition, Meaning, Value (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State U.P., 1997), p. 2. All subsequent references in the text will be to '"Art" as a Cluster Concept,' in Theories of Art, ed. Noël Carroll (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000)
8. Weitz, 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics', p. 14S in Margolis, Philosophy Looks at the Arts. It is unclear 'whether, for Weitz, open concept and closed concept are closed or open concepts
9. Such arguments arc criticized by Robert Stecker in 'Is it Reasonable to Attempt to Define Art?', in Theories of Art
10. Weitz, p. 150 in Margolis, Philosophy Looks at the Arts
11. 11 This recalls one of Pence's examples of a vague sentence: 'This month a great event is to happen', which requires only that some great event happen this month, hut does not specify what. The example is discussed in Timothy Williamson's Vagueness (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 48