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The aesthetic mind : philosophy and psychology /

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This title breaks ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goldie, Peter, Schellekens, Elisabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
Art and philosophy.
Art > Philosophy.
Art et philosophie.
Art > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Aesthetics
Art and philosophy
Art > Philosophy
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Master of the Masek Beds: Handaxes, Art and the Minds of Early Humans
  • The Fragility of Aesthetic Knowledge: Aesthetic Psychology and Appreciative Virtues
  • Neuroscience, Biology, and Brain Evolution in Visual Art
  • Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art
  • Emotion and Aesthetic Value
  • Beauty is Felt, not Calculated; and it Does Not fit in Boxes
  • The Ethics of Aesthetic Bootstrapping
  • The Origins of Aesthetics: A Neurobiological Basis for Affective Feelings and Aesthetics
  • Beauty is Instinctive Feeling: Experimenting on Aesthetics and Art
  • Beauty Is Not One: The Irreducible Variety of Visual Beauty
  • Aesthetics: The Approach from Social Anthropology
  • Experiencing the Aesthetic: Kantian Autonomy or Evolutionary Biology?
  • Imagination Unblocked
  • An Attitude Towards the Possible: The Contributions of Pretend Play to Later Adult Consciousness
  • Unpacking the Boxes: The Cognitive Theory of Imagination and Aesthetics
  • Enacting the Other: Towards an Aesthetics of Feeling in Literary Reading
  • n Keeping Psychology Out of Literary Criticism
  • Mirroring Fictional Others
  • Moving in Concert: Dance and Music
  • 'I'll Be Your Mirror'?: Embodied Agency, Dance, and Neuroscience
  • Music and Emotion: Psychological Considerations
  • Cross-cultural Musical Expressiveness: Theory and the Empirical Programme
  • Neurology and the New Riddle of Pictorial Style
  • Varieties of Pictorial Judgement: A Functional Account
  • Pictorial Representation and Psychology.