Linked bibliography for the SEP article "The Definition of Art" by Thomas Adajian

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Abell, Catharine, 2012, “Art: What It Is and Why It Matters,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 85: 671–691. (Scholar)
Adajian, Thomas, 2005, “On the Prototype Theory of Concepts and the Definition of Art,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 63: 231–236. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, “Defining Art,” in A. Ribeiro (ed.) 2012, pp. 39–56. (Scholar)
Battersby, Christine, 1989, Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, London: The Women’s Press. (Scholar)
Beardsley, Monroe, 1982, The Aesthetic Point of View, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
Bond, E. J., 1975, “The Essential Nature of Art,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 12: 177–183. (Scholar)
Brand, Peggy Zeglin, 2000, “Glaring Omissions in Traditional Theories of Art,” in N. Carroll (ed.) 2000, pp. 175–198. (Scholar)
Carroll, Noel, 1993, “Historical Narratives and the Philosophy of Art”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51(3): 313–26. (Scholar)
–––, 2001, Beyond Aesthetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2004, “Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Properties,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 44: 413–423. (Scholar)
Carroll, Noël, 2000, “Introduction,” in Carroll (ed.) 2000, 3–24. (Scholar)
Carroll, Noël (ed.), 2000, Theories of Art Today, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Scholar)
Cohen, Ted, 1973, “Aesthetic/Non-aesthetic and the concept of taste: a critique of Sibley’s position”, Theoria, 39(1–3): 113–152. (Scholar)
Danto, Arthur, 1981, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, What Art Is, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
Davidson, Donald, 2005, Truth and Predication, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Davies, David, 2004, Art as Performance, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Scholar)
Davies, Stephen, 1991, Definitions of Art, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1997, “First Art and Art’s Definition,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 35: 19–34 (Scholar)
–––, 2000, “Non-Western Art and Art’s Definition,” in N. Carroll (ed.) 2000, pp. 199–217 . (Scholar)
–––, 2006, The Philosophy of Art, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, The Artful Species, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “Defining Art and Artworlds,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73(4): 375–384. (Scholar)
Davies, Stephen, and Sukla, Ananta (eds.), 2003, Art and Essence, Westport, CT: Praeger. (Scholar)
Dean, Jeffery, 2003, “The Nature of Concepts and the Definition of Art,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 61: 29–35. (Scholar)
Devitt, Michael, 2001, “The Metaphysics of Truth,” in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Nature of Truth, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 579–611. (Scholar)
DeClerq, Rafael, 2002, “The Concept of an Aesthetic Property,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 60: 167–172. (Scholar)
Dickie, George, 1965, “Beardsley’s Phantom Aesthetic Experience”, Journal of Philosophy, 62(5): 129–136. (Scholar)
–––, 1974, Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, The Art Circle, New York: Haven. (Scholar)
–––, 2001, Art and Value, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Scholar)
–––, 2004, “Defining Art: Intension and Extension” in P. Kivy (ed.), Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, Oxford: Blackwell, 45–62. (Scholar)
Dissanayake, Ellen, 1990, What is Art For?, Bellingham: University of Washington Press. (Scholar)
Dissanayake, Ellen, 2018, “The Concept of Artification,” in Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma, E. Malotka and E. Dissanayake, pp. 91–129 (Scholar)
Dissanayake, Ellen, 2013, “Genesis and Development of Making Special: Is the Concept Relevant to Aesthetic Philosophy?”, Revista de Estetika 54: 83–98 (Scholar)
Dutton, Denis, 2006, “A Naturalist Definition of Art,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64: 367–377. (Scholar)
–––, 2008, The Art Instinct, New York: Bloomsbury Press. (Scholar)
Eagleton, Terry, 1990,The Ideology of the Aesthetic, London: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
Eldridge, Richard, 1985, “Form and Content: An Aesthetic Theory of Art,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 25(4): 303–316. (Scholar)
Field, Hartry, 1972, “Tarski’s Theory of Truth,” The Journal of Philosophy, 69: 347–375. (Scholar)
Frueh, Joanna, 1991, “Towards a Feminist Theory of Art,” in Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology, A. Raven, C. Langer and J. Frueh (eds.), Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 153–165. (Scholar)
Gaut, Berys, 2000, “The Cluster Account of Art,” in N. Carroll (ed.) 2000, pp. 25–45. (Scholar)
Goehr, Lydia, 1994, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Goldman, Alan, 1995, Aesthetic Value, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Scholar)
Goodman, Nelson, 1968, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. (Scholar)
Hegel, G.W.F., Lectures, translated by Bernard Bosanquet in The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1886; reprinted as Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, edited and with an Introduction by Michael Inwood, London: Penguin, 1993. [Page reference is to the 1886 translation.] (Scholar)
Iseminger, Gary, 2004, The Aesthetic Function of Art, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
Janaway, Christopher, 1998, Images of Excellence: Plato’s Critique of the Arts, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 2000, Critique of the Power of Judgment, Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Khalidi, Muhammed, 2013, “Three Kinds of Social Kinds,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(1): 96–112. (Scholar)
Kivy, Peter, 1975, “What Makes ‘Aesthetic’ Terms Aesthetic?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 36(2): 197–211. (Scholar)
–––, 1997, Philosophies of the Arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Korsmeyer, Christine, 2004, Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction, New York: Routlege. (Scholar)
Kristeller, Paul, 1951, “The Modern System of the Arts,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 12: 496–527. (Scholar)
Levinson, Jerrold, 1990, Music, Art, and Metaphysics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2002, “The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 42(4): 367–379. (Scholar)
–––, 2005a, “What Are Aesthetic Properties?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 79: 191–210. (Scholar)
–––, 2005b, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2005c, “Philosophical Aesthetics: An Overview,” in Levinson 2005b, pp. 3–24 (Scholar)
Longworth, F., and A. Scarantino, 2010, “The Disjunctive Theory of Art: The Cluster Account Reformulated,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 50(2): 151–167. (Scholar)
Lopes, D.M., 2008,“Nobody Needs a Theory of Art” Journal of Philosophy, 105: 109–127. (Scholar)
–––, 2014, Beyond Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
McFee, Graham, 2011, Artistic Judgment: A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics, London: Springer. (Scholar)
Mag Uidhir, C., 2013, Art and Art Attempts, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Mag Uidhir, C. and Magnus, P. D., 2011, “Art Concept Pluralism” Metaphilosophy, 42: 183–97. (Scholar)
Malotki, Ekkehart and Dissanayake, Ellen, 2018, Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma, Seattle: University of Washington Press (Scholar)
Matravers, Derek, 2000, “The Institutional Theory: A Protean Creature,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 40: 242–250. (Scholar)
Meskin, Aaron, 2008,“From Defining Art to Defining the Individual Arts: The Role of Theory in the Philosophies of Arts” in Stock and Thomson-Jones (eds.) 2008, pp. 125–150. (Scholar)
Osterman, Bernt, 1998, “On Functional and Procedural Art Definitions,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 32: 67–77. (Scholar)
Plato, 1997, Complete Works, John M. Cooper (ed.), Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
Rey, Georges, 1983, “Concepts and Stereotypes,” Cognition, 15: 237–262. (Scholar)
Ribeiro, Anna Christina (ed.), 2012, Continuum Companion to Aesthetics, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
Shelley, James, 2003, “The Problem of Non-Perceptual Art,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 43: 363–378. (Scholar)
Sibley, Frank, 1959, “Aesthetic Concepts,” Philosophical Review, 74: 135–159. (Scholar)
Shiner, Larry, 2001, The Invention of Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2003, “Western and Non-Western Concepts of Art: Universality and Authenticity” in S. Davies and A. Sukla (eds.) 2003, pp. 143–157. (Scholar)
Stecker, Robert, 1997, Artworks: Definition, Meaning, Value, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
Stecker, Robert, 2000, “Is It Reasonable to Attempt to Define Art” in N. Carroll (ed.) 2000, pp. 45–64. (Scholar)
–––, 2003, “Definition of Art,” in J. Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 136–154. (Scholar)
–––, 2005, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
Stock, Kathleen 2003, “Historical Definitions of Art,” in Davies and Sukla, 2003, pp. 159–176 (Scholar)
Stock, Kathleen, and Thomson-Jones, Katherine, 2008, New Waves in Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Tilghman, Benjamin, 1984, But Is It Art?, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Walton, Kendall, 1997, “Review of Art and the Aesthetic,” Philosophical Review, 86: 97–101. (Scholar)
–––, 2007, “Aesthetics – What?, Why?, and Wherefore?” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65(2): 147–162. (Scholar)
Wicks, R., 1993, “Hegel’s Aesthetics,” in F. Beiser (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 348–377. (Scholar)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953, Philosophical Investigations, G.E.M. Anscombe and R. Rhees (eds.), G.E.M. Anscombe (trans.), Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
–––, 1968, Philosophical Investigations, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Weitz, Morris, 1956, “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 15: 27–35. (Scholar)
Zangwill, Nick, 1995a, “Groundrules in the Philosophy of Art,” Philosophy, 70: 533–544. (Scholar)
–––, 1995b, “The Creative Theory of Art,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 32: 315–332 (Scholar)
–––, 2001, The Metaphysics of Beauty, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
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Zemach, Eddy, 1997, Real Beauty, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)

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