The Aesthetic Mind [electronic resource] : Philosophy and Psychology
Schellekens, Elisabeth.
Goldie, Peter.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social anthropology: they explore the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, ranging over visual and literary art, music, and dance. Among the questionsdiscussed are: Why do we engage with things aesthetically and why do we create art? Does art or aesthetic experience have a functio
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I. The Psychology of the Aesthetic; 1. The Master of the Masek Beds: Handaxes, Art, and the Minds of Early Humans; 2. The Fragility of Aesthetic Knowledge: Aesthetic Psychology and Appreciative Virtues; 3. Neuroscience, Biology, and Brain Evolution in Visual Art; 4. Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art; Part II. Emotion in Aesthetic Experience; 5. Emotion and Aesthetic Value; 6. Beauty is Felt, Not Calculated;  and it Does Not Fit in Boxes; 7. The Ethics of Aesthetic Bootstrapping
8. The Origins of Aesthetics: A Neurobiological Basis for Affective Feelings and AestheticsPart III. Beauty and Universality; 9. Beauty is Instinctive Feeling: Experimenting on Aesthetics and Art; 10. Beauty is Not One: The Irreducible Variety of Visual Beauty; 11. Aesthetics: The Approach from Social Anthropology; 12. Experiencing the Aesthetic: Kantian Autonomy or Evolutionary Biology?; Part IV. Imagination and Make-Believe; 13. Imagination Unblocked; 14. An Attitude Towards the Possible: The Contributions of Pretend Play to Later Adult Consciousness
15. Unpacking the Boxes: The Cognitive Theory of Imagination and AestheticsPart V. Fiction and Empathy; 16. Enacting the Other: Towards an Aesthetics of Feeling in Literary Reading; 17. On Keeping Psychology Out of Literary Criticism; 18. Mirroring Fictional Others; Part VI. Music, Dance, and Expressivity; 19. Moving in Concert: Dance and Music; 20. 'I'll Be Your Mirror'? Embodied Agency, Dance, and Neuroscience; 21. Music and Emotion: Psychological Considerations; 22. Cross-Cultural Musical Expressiveness: Theory and the Empirical Programme
Part VII. Pictorial Representation and Appreciation23. Neurology and the New Riddle of Pictorial Style; 24. Varieties of Pictorial Judgement: A Functional Account; 25. Pictorial Representation and Psychology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social anthropology: they explore the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, ranging over visual and literary art, music, and dance. Among the questionsdiscussed are: Why do we engage with things aesthetically and why do we create art? Does art or aesthetic experience have a functio
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics.
Art -- Philosophy.
Body and mind.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Art
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Aesthetics
Also issued in print format.