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The dispositional nature of aesthetic properties is taken by some to be a problem for aesthetic property realism.  Nick Zangwill argues that because aesthetic properties supervene on sensory properties such as color, they must be secondary qualities, and his response-dependence…

By applying a few of the concepts and transformative tools presenting in many of Deleuze?s texts, Barnett Newman?s paintings receive a much-needed re-interpretation. In many of Newman?s paintings, the fields of colors and the pulsating zips that sear through these…

          Simus, Jason Boaz, Disturbing Nature's Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics in a New Ecological Paradigm. Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy), August 2009, 132 pp., 223 references, 153 titles.          An ecological paradigm shift from the ";;balance of nature";; to the ";;flux…

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The paper examines the importance of painting for Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Painting, as the celebration of visibility, is an important supplement to that project. It is a way of exploring the possibilities of embodied perception that does not rely on linguistic…

Upon introducing aesthetic judgment in his Critique of Judgment, Kant proceeds to focus almost exclusively on elucidating positive aesthetic judgment.  In the face of the conspicuous absence of negative judgment, scholars debate whether it is possible at all in Kant?s…