The quest for objectivity: Secondary qualities and aesthetic qualities

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-297

  Vaida, Iuliana Corina ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

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EID: 67649772192     PISSN: 00218529     EISSN: 15406245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/432367     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Frank Sibley, "Objectivity and Aesthetics," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Suppl. Vol. 42 (1968): 31-54
2. The point that we should never underestimate the descriptive component of even such aesthetic concepts as "beautiful" is wittily brought out in the following conversation between O. K. Bouwsma and George Paul related by J. O. Urmson in "The Methods of Aesthetics," in Analytic Aesthetics, ed. Richard Shusterman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), p. 21: "Bouwsma: Paul, would you say that War and Peace was a good book? Paul: Yes, I would. Bouwsma (slyly): Paul, would you say that War and Peace was a beautiful book? Paul: No, I would not. Bouwsma (somewhat disappointed): Nor would I."
3. See Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts," Philosophical Review 68 (1959): 421-450
4. and Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Descriptivist Account of Aesthetic Attributions," Revue Internationale de Philosophie 28 (1974): 336-352
5. Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic," Philosophical Review 74 (1965): 137
6. Frank Sibley, "Colours," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 68 (1967-1968): 145-166
7. Göran Hermerén, The Nature of Aesthetic Qualities (Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1988), p. 165
8. Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic," p. 143
9. Frank Sibley, "Colours," p. 148
10. Sibley, "Objectivity and Aesthetics," p. 36
11. Colin Lyas, "The Evaluation of Art," in Philosophical Aesthetics: An Introduction, ed. Oswald Hanfling (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. 373
12. Alan Goldman, Aesthetic Value (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), p. 22
13. Keith Lehrer, Theory of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1990), p. 117
14. Isabel Creed Hungerland, "Once Again, Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (1968): 287
15. Stuart Hampshire, "Logic and Appreciation," in Aesthetics and Language, ed. William Elton (Basil Blackwell, 1954), p. 167
16. Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts," p. 442
17. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations II (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), xi, p. 193e
18. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. Cyril Barrett (Basil Blackwell, 1966), p. 29
19. Arnold Isenberg, "Critical Communication," in Elton, ed., Aesthetics and Language. Originally published in Philosophical Review 58 (1949)
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21. Ernst H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion (London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1959), pp. 267-268
22. Alan Goldman, Aesthetic Value, p. 94
23. Philip Pettit, "The Possibility of Aesthetic Realism," in Pleasure, Preference and Value, ed. Eva Schaper (Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 31
24. Harvey Siegel, Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987), chap. 2
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26. Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 93-94
27. Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion, pp. 369-370
28. Monroe C. Beardsley, Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981), pp. 485-486
29. Monroe C. Beardsley, "What is an Aesthetic Quality?" in The Aesthetic Point of View: Selected Essays of Monroe C. Beardsley (Cornell University Press, 1982), p. 105
30. Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of 'Meaning,'" in Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
31. Robert J. Matthews, "Traditional Aesthetics Defended," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 38 (1979): 43. My view of the functioning of aesthetic language owes much to Matthews's account of the way we use the expression "work of art."
32. T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919), in Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, ed. Frank Kermode (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), pp. 38-39