Functional Beauty, Pleasure, and Experience

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (3):516-530 (2020)
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I offer a set of sufficient conditions for beauty, drawing on Parsons and Carlson’s account of ‘functional beauty’. First, I argue that their account is flawed, whilst falling short of...

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