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

Further Reading
Berys Gaut, “The Cluster Account of Art Defended”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 2005
Maurice Mandelbaum, ‘Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning The Arts’,
American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965).
WEEK 3: AESTHETIC PROPERTIES
Tutorial Texts
Frank Sibley, ‘Aesthetic Concepts’, Philosophical Review 68 (1959);
Frank Sibley, “Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic”, The Philosophical Review 74 (1965), No. 2
(Apr., 1965), pp. 135-159
Further Reading
Marcia Eaton, ‘The Intrinsic, Non-Supervenient Nature of Aesthetic Properties’, JAAC 52
(1994).
Jerrold Levinson, ‘Aesthetic Supervenience’ in his Music, Art and Metaphysics (Cornell U. P.,
1994).
John MacKinnon, ‘Scruton, Sibley, and Supervenience’ JAAC 59 (2000): 383-92.
John MacKinnon, ‘Aesthetic Supervenience: For and Against’ BJA 41 (2001): 59-75.
Frank Sibley, ‘Aesthetic and Non-Aesthetic’, Philosophical Review 74 (1965).
WEEK 4: AESTHETIC EMPIRICISM
Tutorial Texts
Kendall L. Walton. “Categories of Art” Philosophical Review, Vol. 79 (1970), No. 3, 334-
367.
Brian Laetz “Kendall Walton’s Categories of Art: A Critical Commentary” British Journal
of Aesthetics (2010) 50 (3): 287-306.
Further Reading
David Davies, 'Against Enlightened Empiricism', in Matthew Kieran (ed.),
Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2006), pp. 22–34
Daniel O. Nathan, Categories and Intentions, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
Vol. 31, No. 4. (Summer, 1973), pp. 539-541.
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