What's happening in philosophy of art today?

Dialectica 33 (2):123-130 (1979)
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SummaryMore than enough people are still trying to define art. I wonder: Why do that? There don't seem to be any good reasons for doing it. I examine three of these reasons: that our concept of art is abasicconcept, that a definition will have practical value, and that a definition would be interesting from a theoretic point of view

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Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis.Joseph Margolis - 1975 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (3):341-345.

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