Research Article
Aesthetic Supervenience versus Aesthetic Grounding
Authors:
- Jiri BenovskyEmail Jiri Benovsky
Abstract
The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended. In this article, I aim to demonstrate that even if it is sometimes true that a supervenience relation holds between aesthetic properties and ‘subvenient’ non-aesthetic ones, it is not the interesting relation in the neighbourhood. As we shall see, a richer, asymmetric, and irreflexive relation is required, and I shall defend the claim that the increasingly popular relation of grounding does amuch better job than supervenience.
- Year: 2012
- Volume: 49 Issue: 2
- Page/Article: 166-178
- DOI: 10.33134/eeja.96
- Published on 25 Nov 2012
- Peer Reviewed