A New Problem for Aesthetics

Contemporary Aesthetics 9 (2011)
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The essay introduces the problem of aesthetic unreliability, the variety of ways in which it is difficult to grasp our aesthetic experience and the consequent confusion and unreliability of what we take as our taste.

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Kevin Melchionne
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