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

Robert Stecker “Interpretation and The Problem of the Relevant Intention” Chapter 17 in
Matthew Kieren (ed) Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
(Blackwell, 2006)
William Tolhurst, ‚On What a Text Is and How it Means’, BJA 19 (1979).
Richard Wollheim, ‘Criticism as Retrieval’, in Art and Its Objects (C.U.P., 1980).
Daniel Nathan “Art, Meaning and Artist’s Meaning” in Matthew Kieren (ed) Contemporary
Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Blackwell, 2006)
WEEK 7: EVALUATION
Tutorial Texts
George Dickie “Iron, Leather and Critical Principles” (Chapter 20 in Kieran (ed)).
David Hume, `Of the Standard of Taste', http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r15.html.
Further Reading
Noel Carroll, ‘Hume's Standard of Taste’, JAAC 43 (1985).
Theodore Gracyk, ‘Rethinking Hume's Standard of Taste’, JAAC 52 (1994).
Peter Kivy, ‘Hume's Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle’, BJA 7 (1967).
Jerrold Levinson, ‘Hume’s Standard of Taste: The Real Problem’, JAAC 60 (2002).
John McDowell, ‘Values and Secondary Qualities’, in Ted Honderich (ed.), Morality and
Objectivity: A Tribute to John Mackie (Routledge, 1981); reprinted in his Mind, Value
and Reality (Harvard U.P., 1998).
Philip Pettit, ‘The Possibility of Aesthetic Realism’, in Eva Schaper (ed.), Pleasure,
Preference and Value (C.U.P, 1983); reprinted in Lamarque and Olsen.
Nick Zangwill, ‘Aesthetic Realism 1’, in Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.
John Bender, ‘Aesthetic Realism 2’, in Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.
Alan Goldman “There are No Aesthetic Principles” (Chapter 19 in Kieran (ed)).
John McDowell, ‘Aesthetic Value, Objectivity and the Fabric of the World’, Eva Schaper
(ed.), Pleasure, Preference and Value (C.U.P, 1983); reprinted in his Mind, Value and
Reality (Harvard U.P., 1998).
WEEK 8: MUSICAL EXPRESSION
Tutorial Texts
Jerrold Levinson, ‘Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression’, in Matthew
Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Blackwell,
2005);
Derek Matravers, ‘Musical Expressiveness’, Philosophy Compass 2 (2007),
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.resourceproxy.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fulltext/117982800
Further Reading
Paul Boghossian, ‘On Hearing the Music in the Sound,” JAAC 59 (2001).
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