Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism

Mohan Matthen University of Toronto   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos There are reasons why we should be subjectivists about aesthetic value. The most plausible form of subjectivism holds that aesthetic value (not value as such) depends on...

Fiction and Assertion

Fred Kroon University of Auckland   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos Let the project of art criticism consist in the achievement of understanding. There is an imaginative entering-in, working towards grasp of the artwork’s significance. It is...

A Relational Account of Art Criticism

Joseph Kassman-Todd UC Berkely   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos Let the project of art criticism consist in the achievement of understanding. There is an imaginative entering-in, working towards grasp of the artwork’s significance. It is...

One Example of Sublimity in Kant

Nanda Jarosz University of Sydney   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos Aesthetic theorists have not yet been able to answer the question of the value of art to Kant’s Critical theory of the sublime (Brady, 2012) and (Doran, 2015). This is...