Aesthesis, noesis, or both? Enactivism meets representationalism in aesthetics
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences November 22, 2024 Onerva Kiianlinna
Two types of systemic models of the mind – the enactivist and the representationalist model – are often depicted as contradictory and mutually exclusive. In this article, I investigate whether they can meaningfully coexist in a viable account of forming aesthetic judgments. I argue that the two models can simultaneously contribute to the understanding of aesthetic judging as an affective...