Aesthetics and cognitive science
Philosophy Compass 4 (5):715-733 (2009)
| Abstract |
Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. Aesthetics also offers philosophical analysis of the uniqueness of the experience of art. Thus, cognitive science does well to incorporate the explanations of aesthetics. This paper explores this general framework of expansionism : a research strategy that suggests that the explanatory goals and resources of both aesthetics and cognitive science should expand to include those of the other. Two relations are considered. First, what is the relation between aesthetics and more traditional cognitive science? Second, what is the relation between aesthetics and new developments in cognitive science that de-emphasize mental representation and emphasize body and action?
|
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
| Categories | (categorize this paper) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00226.x |
| Options |
Save to my reading list
Follow the author(s)
My bibliography
Export citation
Edit this record
Mark as duplicate
Request removal from index
|
Download optionsExternal links
- From the Publisher via CrossRef (no proxy)
- doi.wiley.com (no proxy)
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com (no proxy)
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com [2] (no proxy)
- stokes.mentalpaint.net
(no proxy) - interscience.wiley.com (no proxy)
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server
Configure custom proxy (use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy)
Through your library
- Sign in / register and customize your OpenURL resolver..
- Configure custom resolver
References found in this work BETA
Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts.Kendall L. Walton - 1990 - Harvard University Press.
View all 127 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics.Florian Cova, Amanda Garcia & Shen-yi Liao - 2015 - Philosophy Compass 10 (12):927-939.
Feeling, Meaning, and Intentionality—a Critique of the Neuroaesthetics of Beauty.Peer F. Bundgaard - 2015 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (4):781-801.
Similar books and articlesImagination as Simulation: Aesthetics Meets Cognitive Science.Gregory Currie - 1995 - In Martin Davies & Tony Stone (eds.), Mental Simulation. Blackwell.
Philosophy for the Rest of Cognitive Science.Nigel Stepp, Anthony Chemero & Michael T. Turvey - 2011 - Topics in Cognitive Science 3 (2):425-437.
How Can Philosophy Be a True Cognitive Science Discipline?William Bechtel - 2010 - Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (3):357-366.
Why Cognitive Science is Not Formalized Folk Psychology.Martin J. Pickering & Nick Chater - 1995 - Minds and Machines 5 (3):309-337.
Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences.William Bechtel & Mitchell Herschbach - 2010 - In Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 239--261.
Psychology in Cognitive Science: 1978–2038.Dedre Gentner - 2010 - Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (3):328-344.
Why Cognitive Science Needs Philosophy and Vice Versa.Paul Thagard - 2009 - Topics in Cognitive Science 1 (2):237-254.
Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science.William Bechtel - 2009 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1 (3):548-569.
Added to PP index
2009-07-21
Total downloads
762 ( #1,355 of 2,180,741 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
145 ( #635 of 2,180,741 )
2009-07-21
Total downloads
762 ( #1,355 of 2,180,741 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
145 ( #635 of 2,180,741 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Monthly downloads
My notes
Discussion
Nothing in this forum yet.
