Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... philosophical analysis may sometimes be more interesting than sweeping and vague attempts at encapsulating the whole of science or of physics in one scheme. Structural realism may fail as metaphysics for quantum field theory and yet be successful for spacetime physics: if this were the case, we woul ...
... philosophical analysis may sometimes be more interesting than sweeping and vague attempts at encapsulating the whole of science or of physics in one scheme. Structural realism may fail as metaphysics for quantum field theory and yet be successful for spacetime physics: if this were the case, we woul ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... Common belief is despised by Kant because it is guided by obscure principles. Here Kant clearly identifies common sense with mere opinion, uncultivated and vulgar, a kind of Platonic doxa, which is badly in need of clarification and a kind of maieutics, which liberates it from prejudices. Thirdly, s ...
... Common belief is despised by Kant because it is guided by obscure principles. Here Kant clearly identifies common sense with mere opinion, uncultivated and vulgar, a kind of Platonic doxa, which is badly in need of clarification and a kind of maieutics, which liberates it from prejudices. Thirdly, s ...
Recentering Musicology and the Philosophy of Music
... As I said, there is more in life than pursuing a general understanding of something. People can be interested in different things. But suppose we do wish to understand music in a general way. Well, suppose we want to understand anything—minds, mathematics, cabbages and kings. One approach is to show ...
... As I said, there is more in life than pursuing a general understanding of something. People can be interested in different things. But suppose we do wish to understand music in a general way. Well, suppose we want to understand anything—minds, mathematics, cabbages and kings. One approach is to show ...
The Ethical Significance of the Aesthetic Experience of Non
... presents. The second component is a “doing,” or an active contribution to one‟s own experience. Both, according to Dewey, are imperative for the development of our potential for refinement in lived experience, which grounds our ethical and social efficacy. If we elaborate on Dewey‟s view, it seems ...
... presents. The second component is a “doing,” or an active contribution to one‟s own experience. Both, according to Dewey, are imperative for the development of our potential for refinement in lived experience, which grounds our ethical and social efficacy. If we elaborate on Dewey‟s view, it seems ...
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Experience
... expression used by Dickie,“artefact […] candidate for appreciation”.1 This formula is chosen precisely in order to safeguard the fact that it is enough for the piece of work to be appreciated and that it is not necessary that it actually achieve an end. Yet, we can ask the question: what is being ap ...
... expression used by Dickie,“artefact […] candidate for appreciation”.1 This formula is chosen precisely in order to safeguard the fact that it is enough for the piece of work to be appreciated and that it is not necessary that it actually achieve an end. Yet, we can ask the question: what is being ap ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... or extirpated, they did not mean that we do this through some kind of expression, such as venting emotions with the purpose of a kind of catharsis. Nor did they believe that one should suppress or bottle up emotions and passions. Instead, as reflected in Seneca’s essay “On Anger”, the Stoic typicall ...
... or extirpated, they did not mean that we do this through some kind of expression, such as venting emotions with the purpose of a kind of catharsis. Nor did they believe that one should suppress or bottle up emotions and passions. Instead, as reflected in Seneca’s essay “On Anger”, the Stoic typicall ...
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... associated with information processing by aesthetic judgment adaptations when they perceive information of evolutionarily historical promise of high reproductive success.” [Thornhill, 1998, p. 557] Art reflects cues to utility in our evolutionary history ...
... associated with information processing by aesthetic judgment adaptations when they perceive information of evolutionarily historical promise of high reproductive success.” [Thornhill, 1998, p. 557] Art reflects cues to utility in our evolutionary history ...
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... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
From science to arts
... If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing..." Many physicists (Dirac, Einstein...) seem to hold a similar view, that there is a close connection between truth and beauty in natural science. ...
... If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing..." Many physicists (Dirac, Einstein...) seem to hold a similar view, that there is a close connection between truth and beauty in natural science. ...
American Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism
... and increased poverty in the cities The prominence of psychology and the theories of Sigmund Freud Pessimism in the wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction Publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species ...
... and increased poverty in the cities The prominence of psychology and the theories of Sigmund Freud Pessimism in the wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction Publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species ...
American Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism
... Increasing rates of democracy and literacy The emerging middle class Upheaval and social change in the latter half of the 19th century ...
... Increasing rates of democracy and literacy The emerging middle class Upheaval and social change in the latter half of the 19th century ...
Aesthetic Realism
Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy founded by poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902–1978) in 1941. It is based on three core principles. First, the deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis. Second, the greatest danger for a person is to have contempt for the world and what is in it—contempt defined as the false importance or glory from the lessening of things not oneself. Third, the study of what makes for beauty in art is a guide for a good life: ""All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.""The philosophy is principally taught at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation based in SoHo, New York City, through a variety of lectures, classes in poetry, anthropology, art, music, and individual consultations.The Foundation faced controversy for its assertion that men changed from homosexuality through study of this philosophy. In 1990, it stopped presentations and consultations on this subject, explaining that it did not want to be involved in the atmosphere of anger surrounding the issue, and saying that “we do not want this matter, which is certainly not fundamental to Aesthetic Realism, to be used to obscure what Aesthetic Realism truly is: education of the largest, most cultural kind.”