New Waves in Aesthetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. The Ontological Diversity of Visual Artworks

   • Sherri Irvin

   Pages 1-19

3. New Waves in Musical Ontology

   • Andrew Kania

   Pages 20-40

4. Metaphors and Musical Expressiveness

   • Saam Trivedi

   Pages 41-57

5. Davidson, Metaphor and Error Theory

   • Andrew McGonigal

   Pages 58-83

6. Artifact Expression

   • John Kulvicki

   Pages 84-104

7. A Metaphysics of Creativity

   • Dustin Stokes

   Pages 105-124

8. From Defining Art to Defining the Individual Arts: The Role of Theory in the Philosophies of Arts

   • Aaron Meskin

   Pages 125-149

9. Imagining Fact and Fiction

   • Stacie Friend

   Pages 150-169

10. Three Debates in Meta-Aesthetics

    • Elisabeth Schellekens

    Pages 170-187

11. Aesthetic Ideals

    • Rafaël De Clercq

    Pages 188-202

12. Configuring the Cognitive Imagination

    • Jonathan M. Weinberg

    Pages 203-223

13. Personifying Art

    • Brian Soucek

    Pages 224-243

14. Danto and Kant, Together at Last?

    • Diarmuid Costello

    Pages 244-266

15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-269

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Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

• aesthetics
• art
• creativity
• fiction
• history
• imagination
• individual
• Kant
• metaphor
• metaphysics
• mind
• ontology
• philosophy
• philosophy of mind
• physics

• University of Sussex, UK

  Kathleen Stock

• Oberlin College, USA

  Katherine Thomson-Jones

DIARMUID COSTELLO teaches aesthetics at the University of Warwick, UK RAFAËL DE CLERCQ works as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium STACIE FRIEND is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, UK SHERRI IRVIN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, USA ANDREW KANIA is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA JOHN KULVICKI is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, USA ANDREW MCGONIGAL holds a lectureship at the University of Leeds, UK AARON MESKIN is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK ELISABETH SCHELLEKENS holds a lectureship in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK DUSTIN STOKES is Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada BRIAN SOUCEK is a Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Fellow in the University of Chicago's Society of Fellows, USA SAAM TRIVEDI is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College in the City University of New York, USA JONATHAN M. WEINBERG is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Member of the Center for Cognitive Science, Indiana University in Bloomington, USA

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