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- Title
Aesthetic Supervenience Revisited.
- Authors
Hick, Darren Hudson
- Abstract
In this paper, I hope to reintroduce debate on the issue of aesthetic supervenience, especially in light of work undertaken by metaphysicians in recent years. After providing a brief walkthrough of some of the major views on supervenience generally, including several important metaphysical distinctions, I build upon views by Jerrold Levinson, John Bender, Nick Zangwill, and Gregory Currie, to develop a realist thesis of strong local supervenience, such that aesthetic properties of artworks and other objects depend upon their formal/structural properties and reduce to powers to produce aesthetic effects of particular kinds in suitable perceivers under suitable conditions.
- Subjects
SUPERVENIENCE (Philosophy); AESTHETICS; LEVINSON, Jerrold; BENDER, John; ZANGWILL, Nick; CURRIE, Gregory, 1950-
- Publication
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2012, Vol 52, Issue 3, p301
- ISSN
0007-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aesthj/ays024