The Continuum Companion to Aesthetics

369 Pages·2012·1.56 MB·English

by  Anna Christina Ribeiro

The Continuum Companion to Aesthetics
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The Continuum
Companion to
Aesthetics
Edited by
Anna Christina Ribeiro
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E ISBN: 978-1-4411-9791-7
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The Continuum companion to aesthetics / [compiled by] Anna Christina Ribeiro.
p. cm. – (Continuum companions to philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I SBN 978-1-84706-370-0 (hardback : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4411-9791-7 (ebook
pdf: alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4411-5802-4 (ebook epub : alk. paper) 1. Aesthetics.
I. Ribeiro, Anna Christina Soy. II. Title: Companion to aesthetics. III. Series.
BH21.C66 2012
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Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction 1
Anna Christina Ribeiro
2 Research Methods and Problems in Aesthetics 14
Brandon Cooke
P art I – Core Issues and Art Forms
3 Defi ning Art 39
Thomas Adajian
4 Artworks, Objects, and Structures 55
Sherri Irvin
5 The Aesthetic Experience 74
Derek Matravers
6 Aesthetic Properties 84
Elisabeth Schellekens
7 Aesthetic and Artistic Value 98
Sondra Bacharach and James Harold
8 Music 112
Jeanette Bicknell
9 Literature 125
Anna Christina Ribeiro
10 Theater 142
David Osipovich
11 Dance 156
Renee M. Conroy
12 Visual Arts 171
John Kulvicki
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Contents
13 Film 184
Amy Coplan
14 Architecture 201
Rafael De Clercq
15 Popular Art 215
Aaron Smuts
16 Environmental Aesthetics 228
Glenn Parsons
17 Global Standpoint Aesthetics: Toward a Paradigm 242
David I. Gandolfo and Sarah E. Worth
18 New Directions in Aesthetics 255
Paisley Livingston
Part II – Resources
19 Chronology of Works in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 271
Darren Hudson Hick
20 Research Resources in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 298
Darren Hudson Hick
Bibliography 308
Index 345
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Contributors
Thomas Adajian is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at James Madison
University. His research concerns aesthetics, ontology, and C. S. Peirce. He is
the author of the S tanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry “The Defi nition of
Art,” and is currently at work on a book on the defi nition of art.
Sondra Bacharach is a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington.
She works in the philosophy of art and is currently thinking about artistic
collaborations.
Jeane(cid:308) e Bicknell is the author of W hy Music Moves Us (Palgrave, 2009). Her
work has also appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Philosophy
Today , and the Journal of Value Inquiry , among others.
Renee M. C onroy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University
Calumet, specializing in aesthetics, ethics, and metaphysics. Her work is
focused largely on issues in the philosophy of dance. She received her Ph.D.
from the University of Washington in 2009 on the basis of her dissertation, The
Art of Re-Making Dances: A Philosophical Analysis of Dancework Reconstruction .
Brandon Cooke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Minnesota State
University, Mankato. His main areas of research are aesthetics and ethics. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews.
Amy Coplan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,
Fullerton. Her primary areas of research include aesthetics (especially philoso-
phy of fi lm), philosophy of emotion, ancient Greek philosophy, and feminist
philosophy.
Rafael De Clercq is Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies
of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in its
Department of Philosophy. He has published on aesthetic ineffability, aesthetic
properties, the perception of music, and modern architecture, as well as on met-
aphysical topics such as criteria of identity, response-dependence, presentism,
and the ontology of Japanese shrines.
David I. Gandolfo is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Poverty
Studies Program at Furman University. His main teaching and research inter-
ests are Latin American Philosophy, Topics in International Justice, and Poverty
Studies; he also has teaching interests in African Philosophy. The thread that
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Contributors
ties all of this together is a concern for what those at the center of world power
can learn from critiques of the status quo being offered from the standpoints of
those on the global margins.
James Harold is Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the
Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College.
His principal research interests are in meta-ethics and the philosophy of art.
Darren Hudson Hick is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna
University. His research focuses on the ontology of art and philosophical
issues in intellectual property. His work appears in the J ournal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism , British Journal of Aesthetics , Contemporary Aesthetics , Journal of
the Copyright Society of the USA, and elsewhere. He is the author of Introducing
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Continuum, 2012).
Sherri Irvin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.
She received her BA from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D. from
Princeton University. Her research interests center on the philosophy of con-
temporary art, the relation between aesthetics and ethics, and the aesthetics of
everyday experience.
John Kulvicki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. His
work focuses on philosophy of the visual arts and philosophy of perception.
His book On Images was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
Paisley Livingston is Chair Professor of Philosophy at Lingnan University,
Hong Kong. His most recent book is C inema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as
Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University, and an
Affi liated Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge. He is the author
of Art and Emotion (Oxford University Press, 1998) and is currently working on
a book on narrative.
David Osipovich holds doctorate degrees in both philosophy and law, and is
currently an attorney with the law fi rm of K&L Gates LLP. From 2001–06 he
taught philosophy, fi rst as an adjunct professor at The College of William and
Mary and then as an Assistant Professor at Marist College. He has published
several papers on the philosophy of theater and, for the past eight years, has
regularly presented on the subject at academic conferences in the United States
and the United Kingdom.
Glenn Parsons is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at
Ryerson University in Toronto. His current research focuses on the aesthetics
of nature, everyday artifacts, and persons. His publications include Functional
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Beauty (coauthored with Allen Carlson; Oxford University Press, 2008) and
Aesthetics and Nature (Continuum, 2008).
Anna Christina R ibeiro is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech
University. Among her publications are “Toward a Philosophy of Poetry”
( Midwest Studies in Philosophy 33, 2009) and “Intending to Repeat: A Defi nition
of Poetry” (J ournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65, 2007). She was the recipient
of a 2009–10 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Fellowship for
Junior Faculty, to work on a monograph on the philosophy of poetry tentatively
titled Poetry: Philosophical Thoughts on an Ancient Practice .
Elisabeth Schellekens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham, and
Associate Editor of the B ritish Journal of Aesthetics. Her main areas of research are
aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of Kant. She is the author of A esthetics and
Morality (Continuum, 2007), Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art (with Peter Goldie;
Routledge, 2009), and the coeditor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Oxford
University Press, 2007) and T he Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology
(Oxford University Press, 2011).
Aaron Smuts is an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Rhode
Island College. His interests range across a wide variety of topics in ethics, the
philosophy of art, and general value theory. He has published over two dozen
articles in a variety of academic journals, including A merican Philosophical
Quarterly , Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ,
Midwest Studies in Philosophy , Pacifi c Philosophical Quarterly , Philosophical Studies ,
Philosophy Compass , and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
Sarah E. Worth is Professor of Philosophy at Furman University in Greenville,
SC. She writes primarily in topics in aesthetics and narrative, most recently
in the intersection of memoir and fraud. Her work has appeared in the British
Journal of Aesthetics , Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , Journal of Aesthetic
Education , Philosophical Forum , Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and J ournal
of Norwegian Philosophy among others.

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