Aesthetics and material beauty : aesthetics naturalized / [edited by] Jennifer A. McMahon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMahon, Jennifer.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does not proceed by a set of rules. Yet the fact that its objects can be understood or appreciated by others suggests that the creative process is constrained by principles to which others have access. According to her update of Kantian aesthetics, beauty is grounded in indeterminate yet systema

Contents:

Email and ethics : style and ethical relations in computer-mediated communication / Emma Rooksby

Causation and laws of nature / Max Kistler

Internalism and epistemology : the architecture of reason / imothy McGrew and Lydia McGrew

Einstein, relativity and absolute simultaneity / Edited by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith

Epistemology modalized / Kelly Becker

Truth and speech acts / Greimann & Siegwart

Fiction, narrative, and knowledge : a sense of the world / edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, and Luca Pocci

A pragmatic philosophy of democracy : communities of inquiry / Robert B. Talisse

Aesthetics and material beauty : asthetics naturalized / Jennifer A. McMahon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-19563-3

0-203-94018-0

1-283-96977-7

1-135-19556-0

9780203940181

OCLC:

826854703