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The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology
Elisabeth Schellekens and Peter Goldie
Abstract
This collection of original essays from leading researchers across a wide range of disciplines engages with a number of issues concerning ‘the aesthetic mind’. It is the only collection which specifically targets the extent to which the empirical sciences can contribute to our philosophical understanding of the notions of the aesthetic and the artistic. The questions addressed include the following: The collection is divided into seven parts: ‘The Aesthetic Mind’, ‘Emotion in Aesthetic Experience’, ‘Beauty and Universality’, Imagination and Make-Believe’, ‘Fiction and Empathy’, ‘Music, Dance ... More
Keywords: the aesthetic mind, artistic, aesthetic experience, non-aesthetic, beauty, universality, imagination, make-believe, fiction, empathy, music, dance, expressivity, pictorial representation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199691517 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691517.001.0001 |
