<p>Resources for the weekly class ‘Philosophy of Art’</p><p>Andrea Lechler</p><p># = held by the Continuing Education Library in Rewley House * = can be accessed via Continuing Education Library computers (I’ve probably missed some, so it’s always worth checking.)</p><p>Companions (introductions to different topics in the philosophy of art by multiple authors)</p><p>* Gaut, Berys, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2013. (* # 2nd ed. from 2005)</p><p># Hanfling, Oswald, ed. Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.</p><p>Kieran, Matthew, ed. Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.</p><p>* Kivy, Peter, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.</p><p>* Levinson, Jerrold, ed. Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. </p><p>* A Companion to Aesthetics. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.</p><p>*# Neill, Alex and Aaron Ridley. Arguing about Art. Contemporary Philosophical Debates. Routledge, 2008/2013.</p><p>Anthologies (excerpts mainly from primary sources)</p><p># Cahn, Steven M. and Aaron Meskin, eds. Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.</p><p># Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen, eds. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition. An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.</p><p># Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard, eds. The Oxford Reader in Aesthetics. Oxford: OUP, 1997.</p><p>Reference works</p><p>Tiger C. Roholt. Key Terms in Philosophy of Art. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.</p><p>The following article is an overview of literature on the topic, with short descriptions of each work referred to: * Peter Lamarque "Analytic Approaches to Aesthetics". In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577- 0004.xml (accessed 27-Jan-2014). (This is only fully accessible with a subscription.)</p><p>Check the following shelf in the Continuing Education Library for more books on the philosophy of art: 111.85 Podcasts</p><p>Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures by James Grant: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/aesthetics- and-philosophy-art-lectures</p><p>Podcasts of the London Aesthetics Forum: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/london-aesthetics- forum/id408225637?ign-mpt=uo%3D4</p><p>References for individual classes (some references are to the above works)</p><p>What is beauty?</p><p>• * David Konstan. Beauty. The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea. Oxford University Press, 2015. • *# Monroe Beardsley. Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present. A Short History. University of Alabama Press, 1975 (1966). • # Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson. Functional Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2008.</p><p>• Benjamin Jowett’s free translation of Plato’s Symposium: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html • The quotations on the handout are from Christopher Gill’s translation: Penguin, 2003. • C.D.C. Reeve. ‘Plato on Begetting in Beauty’. In Alison E. Denham (ed.). Plato on Art and Beauty. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. • * Suzanne Obdrzalek. ‘Moral Transformation and the Love of Beauty in Plato’s Symposium’. Journal of the History of Philosophy 48(4), 2010, 415-444. • * Thomas L. Cooksey. Plato’s Symposium. A Reader’s Guide. Continuum, 2010. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-aesthetics/</p><p>• * Frederick C. Beiser. Diotima’s Children. German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing. Oxford University Press, 2009. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-german/</p><p>• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-british/ • * Peter Kivy. The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2003. • Francis Hutcheson. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. 1726: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php %3Ftitle=2462&Itemid=28</p><p>• David Hume. Of the Standard of Taste. 1742: http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL23.html • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-aesthetics/ • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/3-hume-and-standard-taste-audio • http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/philosophy/hume-s-legacy-relishing-fine-strokes- sentiments-standards</p><p>• Free translations of Kant’s Critique of Judgement: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/ • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ • http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantaest/ • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/4-kants-critique-judgement-lecture-1-audio • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/5-kants-critique-judgement-lecture-2-audio • * Paul Guyer. ‘Beauty and Utility in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35(3), 2002. • * Paul Guyer. ‘Free and Adherent Beauty: A Modest Proposal’. British Journal of Aesthetics 42(4), 2002. • * Robert Wicks. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Judgement. Routledge, 2007. • * Fiona Hughes. Kant's Critique of aesthetic judgement: A reader's guide. London, Continuum, 2010. • * Henry Allison. Kant's Theory of Taste. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. • http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/philosophy/art-and-perceptual-play</p><p>• #* The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd ed.: Ch. 4, 5, 24, 29. • # The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics: Ch. 18 (Beauty) • * Oswald Hanfling. Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction: Ch. 2. • # Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology. Chapters 9-11, 14. • #* Roger Scruton. Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2009. (also available as Very Short Introduction) • Beauty. In Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. OUP, 1998. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/ • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-judgment/</p><p>What is art?</p><p>• Hanfling, O. 1992. ‘The Problem of Definition’. In: Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. • Clive Bell. Art. 1913: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16917 • Diané Collinson. ‘Aesthetic Experience’. in O. Hanfling Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction. • Gary Iseminger, ‘Aesthetic Experience’, in Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. • Noël Carroll. ‘Recent Approaches to Aesthetic Experience’. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70(2), 2012. • Alan H. Goldman. ‘The Broad View of Aesthetic Experience’. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71(4), 2013. • Monroe Beardsley. The Aesthetic Point of View. 1982. Especially chapter 16 and 17. • Roger Scruton, Beauty, OUP 2009 (also published as A Very Short Introduction to Beauty) • Matthew Kieran, Revealing Art, Routledge 2005. • * Hanfling, O. 1995. ‘Art, Artifact, and Function’. Philosophical Investigations 18(1), 31-48. • Tolstoy, L. 1897. What is Art? (freely available here: https://archive.org/stream/whatisart00tolsuoft/whatisart00tolsuoft_djvu.txt) • Weitz, Morris, 1956, “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 15: 27-35 • Dickie, G. 1984 / 1997, The Art Circle. • David Clowney. ‘Definitions of Art and Fine Art’s Historical Origins’. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69(3), 2011. • Davies, S. 1991. Definitions of Art. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • * Davies, S. 2007. Philosophical Perspectives on Art. Oxford: OUP. • Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology. Chapters 1, 3, 22, 36-39. • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The Analytic Tradition. Part I. • * Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Chapters 9 and 21. • * Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Chapter 7. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/ • Lecture on defining art by James Grant: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/8-defining-art-audio </p><p>Genius and the creation of art</p><p>• * # Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, §§ 43 - 50. • * Robert Wicks. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Judgement. Routledge, 2007. • * Henry Allison. Kant's Theory of Taste. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ • http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantaest/ • * Margaret A. Boden, ‘Creativity’, ch. 37 in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. • * Maria E. Kronfeldner, ‘Creativity Naturalized’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 59(237), 2009, 577-592. • * Philip Alperson, ‘Creativity in Art’, in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. • * Dustin R. Stokes, ‘Incubated Cognition and Creativity’, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14(3), 2007, 83-100. • # Gaut and Livingston (eds.), The Creation of Art, CUP, 2003. • Chapters in section Creation and Creativity (see p. x) in Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology. • * Elliot Samuel Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman (eds.), The Philosophy of Creativity. New Essays. OUP, 2014. • * Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman (eds.). Neuroscience of Creativity. OUP, 2013. • In Our Time on originality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548vy (also available as a podcast via the In Our Time archive)</p><p>Content, meaning, and artists’ intentions</p><p>• Wimsatt and Beardsley (1946), ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ (reprinted at various places, e.g. in Aesthetics. A comprehensive anthology or in Philosophy Looks at the Arts, ed. Margolis, 1986) • Monroe Beardsley, Aesthetics (excerpt in Oxford Reader in Aesthetics, edited by Feagin and Maynard, 1997, pp. 224-228). • Paisley Livingston, ‘Intention in Art’ and Gregory Currie ‘Interpretation in Art’, in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. • The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, ch. 25, 30, 44. • Colin Lyas, ‘Criticism and Interpretation’, in Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction. • George E. Yoos. ‘Some Reflections on Titles of Works of Art’. British Journal of Aesthetics 6(4), 1966. • Michael Wreen, ‘Beardsley’s Aesthetics’, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beardsley-aesthetics/ • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/6-literary-interpretation-audio • http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300</p><p>Music and emotions</p><p>• Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, chapters 34 and 51. • Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Music and Philosophy. Routledge, 2011: All the chapters in Part II: Emotion. • Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology, chapters 22, 25, 26, 51, 53.</p><p>• Jerrold Levinson. ‘Musical Expressiveness as Hearability‐as‐Expression’ and ‘Sound, Gesture, </p><p>Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music’. In Contemplating Art, OUP, 2006. • Thompson and Quinto, ‘Music and Emotion: Psychological Considerations’ in Schellekens and Goldie (eds.), The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, OUP 2011. • Matravers, ‘Expression in the Arts’, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion. • Ridley, ‘Expression in Art’, in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. • Severin Schroeder, ‘Music and Metaphor’, British Journal of Aesthetics 53(1), 2013. • Peter Kivy, Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, Temple University Press 1989. • Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music, OUP 1999. • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/music/ • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/7-musical-expression-audio • http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/metaphor-philosophical-issues</p><p>What can we learn from art?</p><p>• Matthew Kieran, Revealing Art, Routledge 2005. • * The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, chs. 1, 2, 32. • * Dominic McIver Lopes, Sight and Sensibility, OUP 2005. • * John Gibson, ‘Cognitivism and the Arts’, Philosophy Compass 3, 2008. • * Berys Gaut, ‘Art and Knowledge’, in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. • Martha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge, OUP 1990. • http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/peter-lamarque-on-literature-and-truth</p><p>Moral evaluation of art and its relation to aesthetic or artistic evaluation</p><p>• Noël Carroll, ‘Moderate Moralism’, British Journal of Aesthetics 36(3), 1996. • Mary Devereaux, ‘Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will’, in Jerrold Levinson (ed.) Aesthetics and Ethics. Essays in the Intersection (other chapters in this book are relevant too) • Matthew Kieran, Revealing Art and other articles. • A. W. Eaton, ‘Robust Immoralism’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70, 2012. • George Dickie, ‘The Triumph in Triumph of the Will’, British Journal of Aesthetics 45, 2005. • Rafe McGregor, ‘A Critique of the Value Interaction Debate’, British Journal of Aesthetics 54, 2014. • The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, ch. 33. • Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology, chs. 3 and 50.</p><p>Evaluating art and the aims of art criticism</p><p>• The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics: ‘Value of Art’, ‘Criticism’, ‘Aesthetic Universals’. • Matthew Kieran, Revealing Art, Routledge 2005. • The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Chapters on value in art and aesthetic realism. • Ch. 8 in Hanfling (ed.), Philosophical Aesthetics. • * James Grant. The Critical Imagination. OUP, 2013. (Chapter 1 contains a useful overview of different views on the role of criticism. The remaining chapters develop Grant’s own position.) • David Hume. Of the Standard of Taste. 1742: http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL23.html • Henry J Pratt. ‘Categories and Comparisons of Artworks’. British Journal of Aesthetics 52(1), 2012. • http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/roger-scruton-fake-culture/</p>