second year course outlines 2012-2013 - School of Social Sciences ...

Week 3 (beginning 8 th Oct):
Week 4 (beginning 15 th Oct):
Week 5 (beginning 22 nd Oct):
Week 6 (beginning 29 th Oct):
Week 7 (beginning 5 th Nov):
Week 8 (beginning 12 th Nov):
Week 9 (beginning 19 th Nov):
Week 10 (beginning 26 th Nov):
Week 11 (beginning 3 rd Dec):
Week 12 (beginning 10 th Dec):
Aesthetic Properties
Aesthetic Empiricism
Interpretation
READING WEEK
Evaluation
Musical Expression
Photography and Vision
Photography as an Art
Cinema
Revision and Exam Preparation
Weekly tutorials (starting in Week 2) will address issues raised in the previous week’s
lecture.
6. READING LIST
A web-based version of this reading list, with links to catalogue entries, is available on The
University of Manchester Library web site. (Click on 'Reading Lists' on the left of the main
catalogue page.) Detailed bibliographies for each week’s philosophical topic will be given on
the tutorial worksheets (available on Blackboard). But, in addition, the following books also
have helpful material in them.
All reading lists are for guidance only! The texts listed should help you increase your
understanding of the topics covered in the course, and help you prepare for the assessed
essay and exam. But you are also encouraged to use your own initiative and find relevant
articles and books by chasing up interesting footnotes, browsing real and virtual libraries,
following your hunches, and so on.
General introductory texts
Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley, The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern (McGraw-
Hill, 1995)
Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley, Arguing about Art (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
Noel Carroll, Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1999)
David Cooper (ed.), A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell, 1995)
Berys Gaut and Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (Routledge,
2001)
Matthew Kieren (ed) Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
(Blackwell, 2006)
Gordon Graham, Philosophy of the Arts (Routledge, 1997)
Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003)
Oswald Hanfling (ed.), Philosophical Aesthetics (Open University, 1992)
Peter Lamarque and Stein Olsen (eds.), Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic
Tradition (Blackwell, 2005).
Additional Sources
The specialist journals are well worth a browse: The British Journal of Aesthetics
(‘BJA’) and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (‘JAAC’)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on the web) contains some good entries
Copies of my seminar overheads will be placed on the course unit’s web page.
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