Aesthetic Higher-Order Evidence for Subjectivists

British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (2):235-249 (2023)
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Abstract

Aesthetic subjectivism takes the truth of aesthetic judgments to be relative to the individual making that judgment. Despite widespread suspicion, however, this does not mean that one cannot be wrong about such judgments. Accordingly, this does not mean that one cannot gain higher-order evidence of error and fallibility that bears on the rationality of the aesthetic judgment in question. In this paper, we explain and explore these issues in some detail.

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Luis R. G. Oliveira
University of Houston
Christy Mag Uidhir
University of Houston

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Aesthetic Disagreement with Oneself as Another.Uku Tooming - forthcoming - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 60 (2):145-161.

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