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RESPONSE‐DEPENDENCE ABOUT AESTHETIC VALUE
Author(s) -
WATKINS MICHAEL,
SHELLEY JAMES
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01429.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , aesthetic value , dominance (genetics) , epistemology , aesthetics , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The dominant view about the nature of aesthetic value holds it to be response‐dependent. We believe that the dominance of this view owes largely to some combination of the following prevalent beliefs:1 The belief that challenges brought against response‐dependent accounts in other areas of philosophy are less challenging when applied to response‐dependent accounts of aesthetic value. 2 The belief that aesthetic value is instrumental and that response‐dependence about aesthetic value alone accommodates this purported fact. 3 The belief that response‐dependence about aesthetic value alone accommodates the widely acknowledged anthropocentricity of aesthetic value. 4 The belief that response‐dependence about aesthetic value alone accommodates aesthetic normativity.We argue that each of these beliefs is false, and that the dominance of response‐dependent accounts of aesthetic value is therefore largely without foundation.