Search Results - "The British Journal of Aesthetics"

Culture, Cooperation, and Communication: The Co-evolution of Hominin Cognition, Sociality, and Musicality by Killin, Anton

“…Abstract Music is a deeply entrenched human phenomenon. In this article, I argue that its evolutionary origins are intrinsically intertwined with the…”
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Motivational Internalism and Disinterestedness by Doran, Ryan P

“…Abstract According to the most important objection to the existence of moral beauty, true judgements of moral beauty are not possible as moral judgements…”
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Of Pots and Plato’s Aesthetics by Fine, Jonathan

“…Abstract What role should examples play in aesthetic inquiry? This essay brings a neglected early episode in the history of aesthetics to bear on this…”
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The Swirl of Emotion Among Us: Affect, the Voice, and Performance Training by Hamel, Christine, Cahill, Ann J

“…Abstract Our recent theory of intervocality (Cahill and Hamel 2018, 2021) provided a new model of voice as material, relational, and socially constructed…”
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Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value by Earley, Christopher

“…Abstract After viewing a painting, reading a novel, or seeing a film, audiences often feel that they improve their cognitive standing on the world beyond the…”
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Sounding Sense and Sensing Sound: ‘Form-Content Unity’ Revisited and Reformulated by Ives, Eliza

“…Abstract What is poetry’s so-called ‘form-content unity’? In this paper, I argue that the idea of ‘form-content unity’, as derived from A. C. Bradley’s 1901…”
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Diversity-in-Unity: Art Criticism in Conversation by Kassman-Tod, Joseph

“…Abstract What is it for art-critical conversation to be productively and appropriately responsive to a work of fine art? Broadly, contemporary work on the…”
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Erasure and Assertion in Body Aesthetics: Respectability Politics to Anti-Assimilationist Aesthetics by Martin-Seaver, Madeline

“…Abstract Marginalized people have used body aesthetic practices, such as clothing and hairstyles, to communicate their worth to the mainstream. One such…”
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Retroactive Continuity and Fictional Facts by Lee, Jeonggyu

“…Abstract This paper deals with the phenomenon of retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, in which the truth-value of a proposition in an established…”
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Cinema, Displayed by Ponech, Trevor

“…Abstract This essay details that which is arguably the essential nature of a ubiquitous kind of visual display prominently involved in a great many phenomena…”
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Breaking the Fourth Wall and (Meta)Fictional Reference by Semeijn, Merel

“…Abstract I investigate statements in fiction that ‘break the fourth wall’ (i.e. statements through which a fictional character somehow acknowledges the…”
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Why Delight in Screamed Vocals? Emotional Hardcore and the Case Against Beautifying Pain by Murphy, Sean T

“…Abstract Emotional hardcore and other music genres featuring screamed vocals are puzzling for the appreciator. The typical fan attaches appreciative value to…”
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Aesthetic Non-Naturalism by Evers, Daan

“…Abstract Aesthetic non-naturalism is the view that there are objective aesthetic truths that hold in virtue of sui generis facts. This view is seldom…”
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An Analytic of Eeriness by Stopford, Richard

“…Abstract In this paper, I analyse the phenomenon of eeriness as a kind of strange aesthetic experience. Beginning with Fisher’s insight (The Weird and the…”
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Zinger, Clunker, Clanger, Flunker: On Two-Point Comparisons, and Why we Love Them by Landy, Joshua

“…Abstract According to a now-standard theory, ‘Juliet is the sun’ is supposed to be a ‘pregnant’ metaphor, ready at any moment to beget a sprawling heap of…”
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Knowledge and the Aesthetics of Nature by Vice, Samantha

“…Abstract Conceptualism in natural aesthetics takes knowledge of natural objects to be necessary for their appropriate appreciation. Concentrating on animals, I…”
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The Chief Business of the True Judges in Hume’s Standard of Taste by Kim, Byoungjae

“…Abstract In his essay ‘Of the Standard of Taste’, Hume identifies two standards of taste: the general rules of art and the joint verdict of true judges. From…”
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Musical Ontology: Works, Versions, and Lineages by Alward, Peter

“…Abstract In this paper, I develop a novel account of musical works according which they are situated heir lines, consisting of actual and possible…”
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Art, Ethics, and the Relativism of Distance by Nannicelli, Ted, Bubenik, Andrea

“…Abstract To what extent, and on what grounds, can we ethically evaluate art from a generative context that is at some significant distance from our present…”
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In Sublimity’s Wake by Bennett, William

“…Abstract This research paper comparatively assesses Deleuze’s and Lyotard’s post-Kantian thought on the sublime. Initially, I argue that their unfaithful…”
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