A New Problem for Aesthetics

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Kevin Melchionne
State University of New York, Stony Brook
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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.
Keywords taste  aesthetic experience
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