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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. 70
WEEK-BY-WEEK READING LIST This list is not intended to be exhaustive; you are also encouraged to browse and find your own articles and books to read. Photocopies of emboldened items are available in the Short Loan section of the JRULM. WEEK 1: DEFINING ART Tutorial Texts Dickie, George (1969), 'Defining Art', The American Philosophical Quarterly, 6 (3), 253- 56. Jerrold Levinson, ‘Defining Art Historically’, BJA 19 (1979). Further Reading Catharine Abell (2011) Art: What it Is and Why it Matters, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291933- 1592/earlyview Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction, Ch. 5. Arthur C. Danto, ‘The Artworld’, Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964); Arthur Danto (1986), The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (New York: Columbia University Press). --- (1995), 'The Artworld', in Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley (eds.), The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern (Boston: McGraw Hill), 202-13. --- (2000), 'Art and Meaning', in Noel Carroll (ed.), Theories of Art Today (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), 130-40. Davies, Stephen (1991), Definitions of Art (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press). Dickie, George (1971), Aesthetics: An Introduction (Indianapolis: Pegasus). --- (1984). The Art Circle: a Theory of Art (New York: Haven Publications). --- (2000), 'The Institutional Theory of Art', in Noel Carroll (ed.), Theories of Art Today (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press). Jerrold Levinson, ‘Refining Art Historically’, JAAC 47 (1989). Jerrold Levinson, ‘Extending Art Historically’, JAAC 51 (1993). Robert Stecker, ‘Definition of Art’, in Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. WEEK 2: AGAINST DEFINING ART Tutorial Texts Morris Weitz, ‘The Role of Theory in Aesthetics’, JAAC 15 (1956) Berys Gaut (2000), ''Art' as a Cluster Concept', in Noel Carroll (ed.), Theories of Art Today (25-44; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press). 71
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SECOND YEAR COURSE OUTLINES 2012-20
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Learning Outcomes On successful com
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TOTAL: 200 hours Prompt arrival at
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All reading lists are for guidance
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Makin, Gideon. The Metaphysicians o
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Beiser (ed.) Cambridge Companion to
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Sluga, Hans, Frege [an intermediate
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