Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement?

Robson, Jonathan

Abstract

It is commonplace amongst philosophers of art to make claims which postulate important links between aesthetics and perception. In this paper, I focus on one such claim: that perception is the canonical route to aesthetic judgement. I consider a range of prima facie plausible interpretations of this claim and argue that they each fail to identify any important link between aesthetic judgement and perception. Given this, I conclude that we have good reason to be sceptical of the claim that perception is in any way privileged as a source of aesthetic judgement.

Citation

Robson, J. (2018). Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement?. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(4), 657-668. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 5, 2017
• Online Publication Date: May 3, 2018
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 6, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 4, 2019
• Journal: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Print ISSN: 0004-8402
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6828
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 657-668
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/931050
• Publisher URL: https://aap.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australasian Journal of Philosophy on 3 may 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964