Arts and minds / Gregory Currie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currie, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gregory Currie presents a selection of his essays in an area to which he has been a leading contributor: philosophical aesthetics and its interface with cognitive science. He shows that philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other kinds of questions about them. He offers illuminating discussions of such topics as meaning, interpretation, function, genre, character, empathy, imagination, and pretence. His lively and clear writing will make this an enjoyable andstimulating book for readers who are interested in the arts from any academic perspective. - ;Gregory Currie presents

Contents:

Part one: Ontology. Work and text ; Characters and contingency ; Genre ; Documentary ; Can there be a literary philosophy of time?

Part two: Interpretation ; Interpretation and pragmatics ; Interpreting the unreliable ; Cognitive film theory ; Anne Bronte and the uses of imagination

Part three: Mind ; Pretence and pretending ; Pretence and rationality : the case of non-human animals ; The representational revolution ; Aesthetic explanation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-925629-2

1-281-98995-9

9786611989958

0-19-153133-2

OCLC:

712015938