Farewell to Danto and Goodman

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-373

  Margolis, Joseph ^a  

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EID: 63149159872     PISSN: 00070904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/38.4.353     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), p. 99. Hereafter cited as LA. I have included the final line of Goodman's paragraph, which Danto omits.
2. Arthur C. Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 42. Hereafter cited as TC.
3. See TC, pp. 1-3. Danto moves at once to offer more general versions of his thesis, in particular an analogy between artworks and actions (pp. 4-6). Notice, too, that, in summarizing his own examples, Danto pointedly warns that the paired indiscernibles he has in mind 'may have radically distinct ontological affiliations' (p. 4). Just so. We shall have to confront Danto on this precise point.
4. See The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, ed. H. G. Alexander (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956), fifth letter.
5. Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1978), p. 40.
6. Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, pp. 35-36.
7. Leonard B. Meyer, Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), p. 3.
8. Diana Raffman, 'Goodman, Density, and the Limits of Sense Perception', in Michael Krausz (ed.), The Interpretation of Music: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993), p. 216.
9. Raffman, 'Goodman, Density, and the Limits of Sense Perception', p. 219. Cf. LA, pp. 179-192.
10. Arthur C. Danto, 'The Artworld', Journal of Philosophy, vol. LXI (1964), pp. 576-577.
11. See Arthur C. Danto, Narration and Knowledge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
12. Danto, 'The Artworld', pp. 580, 582. The original has 'decry' for 'descry'.
13. See, for instance, Joseph Margolis, Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium (Berkeley: California U.P., 1995).
14. Danto is quoting himself from Analytical Philosophy of Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).