Nick Zangwill argues that the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties, and this function arises because of the artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and her ...

... 9780199261871 LC 2008295718 SUMMARY : " What is the purpose of a work of art ? What drives us to make art ? Why do we value art and consume it ? Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to ...

The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics.

Stephen Davies describes and analyzes the definition of art as it has been discussed in Anglo-American philosophy during this period and, in the process, introduces his own perspective on ways in which we should reorient our thinking.Davies ...

Focusing initially on the function of the artworld rather than the function of works of art, he blends elements from two of the most currently influential philosophical approaches to art, George Dickie's institutional theory and Monroe ...

This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience -- the exemplars of aesthetic experience -- to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our world and our ...

Thirteen specially written essays discuss topics from the work of the leading philosopher of science Bas van Fraassen.

A controversial critique of an iconic philosopher.

In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music.

The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it.