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  1. See Ingrid Sischy, “Good Intentions,” The New Yorker, 9 September 1991.

  2. See Rudolf Wittkover, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958).

  3. See Claude Steele, et al., “Contending with Group Image: the Psychology of Stereotype and Social Identity Threat,” in M.P. Zanna, ed., Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 34 (San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 2002).

  4. See Stephen Darwall, “Two Kinds of Respect,” in John Deigh, ed., Ethics and Personality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

  5. See Martha Nussbaum, “Objectification,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, fall, 1995.

  6. Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Macmillian, 2001 [1977]), p. 34.

  7. See Noël Carroll, “Moderate Moralism,” British Journal of Aesthetics 36.

  8. See Berys Gaut, Art, Emotion and Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 234.

  9. See Daniel Jacobson, “In Praise of Immoral Art,” Philosophical Topics, vol. 25, no. 1, 1997.

  10. See W. Rabinowicz and T. Ronnow-Rasmussen, “The Strike of the Demon: On Fitting Pro-attitudes and Value,” Ethics 114.3 (2004).  

  11. See Nick Zangwill, Aesthetic Creation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

  12. See Kit Fine, “Ontological Dependence,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1995, pp. 276–278.

  13. See Ruth Garrett Millikan, “In Defense of Proper Functions,” Philosophy of Science 56.2 (1989), pp. 294 & 296. 

  14. See Stephen Davies Definitions of Art (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991).

  15. See Annette Barnes, On Interpretation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988); see also Gary Iseminger, “An Intentional Demonstration?”, in Intention and Interpretation, ed. Gary Iseminger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), and Noël Carroll, “Art, Intention, and Conversation,” in Iseminger, op. cit.

  16. See Currie, “Interpretation and Objectivity,” Mind 102, 1993, p. 418.

  17. Ibid.

  18. See Dennett, The Intentional Stance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987), and Dennett, “The Interpretation of Texts, People and Other Artifacts.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1990).

  19. For their helpful responses to earlier versions of this paper, I thank four anonymous referees, Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, and audiences at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Temple University, Columbia University, and the 2007 APA Symposium Ethics and Aesthetics.

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Gilmore, J. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Artistic Ends. J Value Inquiry 45, 203–214 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9270-4

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