New Waves in Aesthetics

290 Pages·2008·1.41 MB·English

by  Kathleen Stock

New Waves in Aesthetics
Edited by
Kathleen Stock and
Katherine Thomson-Jones
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Contents
NotesontheEditors vii
NotesontheContributors viii
Introduction xi
KatherineThomson-JonesandKathleenStock
1 TheOntologicalDiversityofVisualArtworks 1
SherriIrvin
2 NewWavesinMusicalOntology 20
AndrewKania
3 MetaphorsandMusicalExpressiveness 41
SaamTrivedi
4 Davidson,MetaphorandErrorTheory 58
AndrewMcGonigal
5 ArtifactExpression 84
JohnKulvicki
6 AMetaphysicsofCreativity 105
DustinStokes
7 From Defining Art to Defining the Individual Arts: The Role
ofTheoryinthePhilosophiesofArts 125
AaronMeskin
8 ImaginingFactandFiction 150
StacieFriend
9 ThreeDebatesinMeta-Aesthetics 170
ElisabethSchellekens
10 AestheticIdeals 188
Rafa¨elDeClercq
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11 ConfiguringtheCognitiveImagination 203
JonathanM.Weinberg
12 PersonifyingArt 224
BrianSoucek
13 DantoandKant,TogetheratLast? 244
DiarmuidCostello
Index 267
Notes on the Editors
KathleenStockisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofSussex.
Her research interests centre upon the nature of the imagination, and in
particularproblemsraisedbytherelationsbetweenimaginationandfiction.
Shehaspublishedarticlesonimaginativeresistance,onthecognitiveroleof
fiction,onmentalimages,andondefinitionsofart.Currently,sheiswriting
amonographonimaginationandfiction.HereditingworkincludesPhiloso-
phersonMusic:Experience,MeaningandWork(OxfordUniversityPress,2007),
a collection of new writing on the philosophy of music. She is Secretary of
theBritishSocietyofAesthetics.
Katherine Thomson-JonesisanassistantprofessoratOberlinCollege.Her
researchinterestscentreonvariousquestionsinthephilosophyoffilm,par-
ticularlyregardingourengagementwithfilms,aswellasaestheticformalism
and the value of art. She has published articles on ethical art criticism, for-
malism, narration, and empathy in film. She is also the author of Film and
Aesthetics(ContinuumPress,forthcoming).
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Notes on the Contributors
DiarmuidCostelloteachesAestheticsattheUniversityofWarwick.Hehas
published a number of articles at the intersection of aesthetics and art the-
ory,includingpapersonKant,Benjamin,Heidegger,Wittgenstein,Lyotard,
Danto,Greenberg,Fried,andCavell.Heisco-editor,withJonathanVickery,
ofArt:KeyContemporaryThinkers(Berg,2007)and,withDominicWillsdon,
of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (Tate Publishing &
Cornell University Press, 2008). He is completing a monograph, Aesthetics
afterModernism.
Rafae¨lDeClercqholdsadoctoraldegreeinPhilosophyfromtheKatholieke
UniversiteitLeuven,Belgium,wherehealsospentsixyearsworkingasapost-
doctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research—Flanders. He is now at
LingnanUniversity,HongKong.Hisresearchinterestsaremainlyinaesthet-
icsandmetaphysics.Inaesthetics,hehaspublishedonaestheticineffability,
aestheticproperties,andmodernarchitecture.
StacieFriend’sresearchhasfocusedprimarilyonissuesattheintersectionof
aesthetics,mind,andlanguage,especiallyasthesepertaintoproblemsraised
byourengagementwithfictionalnarratives.SheisalecturerinPhilosophyat
HeythropCollege,UniversityofLondon.ShereceivedherPhDinPhilosophy
fromStanfordUniversityin2002.
Sherri Irvin received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Princeton
University, and an MS in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. She
hastaughtattheUniversityofOttawaandCarletonUniversity,andisnow
AssistantProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofOklahoma.Sheisthe
2005 winner of the John Fisher Memorial Prize awarded by the American
SocietyforAesthetics.
Andrew Kania received his MA from the University of Auckland,
New Zealand, and his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.
HeiscurrentlyAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyatTrinityUniversityinSan
Antonio, Texas. His main area of interest is philosophy of the arts, particu-
larlymusic,film,andliterature.HerecentlywontheinauguralEssayPrizeof
theBritishSocietyforAesthetics,foranessayonthemethodologyofmusical
ontology.
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NotesontheContributors ix
John Kulvicki got his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2001, was a
postdoctoralfellowatWashingtonUniversityinStLouisfortwoyearsanda
postdoctoralfellowatCarletonUniversityinOttawaforayearbeforecoming
toDartmouthin2004,whereheisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophy.
Andrew McGonigal completed his PhD at the University of Glasgow, and
has held a lectureship at the University of Leeds since 2002. His current
research interests include aesthetics, metaphysics, and metaethics, and he
haspublishedonmetaphor,response-dependence,andepistemology.Heis
currently working on papers on the autonomy of aesthetic judgment, the
role of metaphor in critical responses to art, and the nature of constitutive
relations in metaphysics. He has presented papers at national and interna-
tional conferences and colloquia, including the annual conferences of the
British Society of Aesthetics, and the American Society of Aesthetics. He is
SecretaryoftheBritishSocietyforEthicalTheoryandDeputyDirectorofthe
CentreforMetaphysicsandMind.
AaronMeskinisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofLeeds,UK.
BeforemovingtoLeeds,hetaughtatTexasTechUniversityinLubbock,Texas.
His research interests include the cognitive imagination, the epistemology
ofartisticvalueandbeauty,andtheartofcomicsandgraphicnovels.Heis
AestheticssectioneditorforPhilosophyCompass.
ElisabethSchellekenscompletedherPhDatKing’sCollegeLondonin2003.
The main topic of her thesis was Aesthetic Objectivity. After working three
years as a postdoctoral Research Fellow both at King’s College London and
the University of Manchester, she is now Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at
theUniversityofDurham.Hermainresearchinterestsincludetheepistemol-
ogy of value judgments, Kant’s aesthetic theory, and aesthetic realism. She
has published in all these areas, and is currently preparing a book entitled
AReasonableObjectivismforAestheticJudgements.
BrianSoucekhasbeenacollegiateassistantprofessorandHarperFellowin
theUniversityofChicago’sSocietyofFellowssincereceivinghisPhDfrom
Columbia University in 2005. In addition to various topics related to the
personification of art—the subject of his dissertation—Soucek is also work-
ing on projects about Sartre, opera, and eighteenth-century aesthetics. An
essayonMozartandStraussappearsinTheDonGiovanniMoment(Columbia
UniversityPress,2006).
DustinStokesworksonthephilosophyofmindandaesthetics.Hisresearch
interestsincludecreativity,imagination,mentalrepresentation,andpercep-
tion. He is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy,
UniversityofToronto.