ISSN 0007-0904
4 papers in the library · 36 citations · publishing 2011-2026
British Journal of Aesthetics June 2, 2026 Uriah Kriegel
Abstract Seeing someone contrasts both with (a) thinking about them and with (b) seeing a portrait of them, in making the person seen seem present ‘in the flesh’. A long-standing question in the philosophy of perception is what underwrites this feeling of presence in visual experience. Yet some painters excel at creating an uncanny semblance of this feeling of presence. The core of this article...
British Journal of Aesthetics October 7, 2024 T. Niikawa, Uriah Kriegel
The aesthetic tradition has identified as paradigmatically sublime such objects as imposing mountains and intense storms, as well as monumental art. But the tradition also acknowledges less paradigmatic cases, including sometimes mathematical structures or abstract concepts. In this paper, we argue that there is also a case for considering phenomenal consciousness—the experiential quality of...
British Journal of Aesthetics March 13, 2019 Ted Nannicelli
This paper seeks to establish closer connections and spur dialogue between philosophers working on 4E cognition and aestheticians. In part, the aim is to offer a critical overview of the ways 4E research might inform our understandings of the arts. Yet it is also partly to flag some potential art-specific challenges to some of the theses found within the 4E literature. I start by examining the...
British Journal of Aesthetics October 1, 2011 Richard Shusterman 36 citations
Although William James wrote no philosophical treatise on aesthetics, he can be seen as an important source for pragmatist aesthetics. This paper reconstructs James's aesthetic views from his diverse writings that demonstrate a keen regard for the arts and for the central, pervasive importance of the aesthetic dimension of experience, a dimension he saw as closely linked to the rational and...