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The Special And General Theory Of Realism: Reply To Abell, Armstrong, And Mcmahon, Dominic Lopes Jan 2006

The Special And General Theory Of Realism: Reply To Abell, Armstrong, And Mcmahon, Dominic Lopes

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Wittgenstein And Haydn On Understanding Music, Yael Kaduri Jan 2006

Wittgenstein And Haydn On Understanding Music, Yael Kaduri

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Wittgenstein's remarks about music have motivated philosophers to build a comprehensive picture of his philosophy of music, concentrating on the central issues of musical meaning. It is often claimed that, according to Wittgenstein, understanding music consist in grasping the internal relationships between musical events. Musical practice, however, is naturally saturated with what philosophers often call extra-musical meanings. The present study, by considering a musical issue in Haydn's instrumental music, attempts to show that musical language games in the Wittgensteinian sense involve explanations of music that enhance the listener's ability to understand music by broadening his musical competence. Nevertheless, constituting understanding …

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The Perceptual Constraints On Pictorial Realism, Jennifer Mcmahon Jan 2006

The Perceptual Constraints On Pictorial Realism, Jennifer Mcmahon

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Toward Eco-Friendly Aeshetics, Sheila Lintott Jan 2006

Toward Eco-Friendly Aeshetics, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

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Railroads And The American Industrial Landscape: Ted Rose Paintings And Photographs, Curtis Carter Jan 2006

Railroads And The American Industrial Landscape: Ted Rose Paintings And Photographs, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Recent Publications Jan 2006

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Musical Experience As Aesthetic: What Cost The Label?, Wayne Bowman Jan 2006

Musical Experience As Aesthetic: What Cost The Label?, Wayne Bowman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This brief essay draws upon a number of themes introduced in Carolyn Korsmeyer's recent book Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2004; ISBN: 0415266599). It does not attempt a comprehensive or critical review of her book; instead it focuses selectively on certain of her points in order to raise concerns of some significance to the music education discipline and, perhaps, to philosophical aesthetics. [1]

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The Varieties Of Aesthetic Disinterestedness, Norman Kreitman Jan 2006

The Varieties Of Aesthetic Disinterestedness, Norman Kreitman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Disinterestedness, a comparatively recent concept in aesthetics, is commonly held to be one of the characteristics of an appropriate response to art, but can be understood in a number of senses. Three varieties are distinguished: a strong form which confines attention exclusively to the internal relations of the work of art; a moderate variety which links internal and external features of the work but solely within the cognitive domain; and a weak form which permits the appreciator to draw on a wide range of external referents but proscribes purely idiosyncratic responses. An illustration is given of the confusion which can …

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Realism And The Riddle Of Style, Catharine Abell Jan 2006

Realism And The Riddle Of Style, Catharine Abell

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Depiction And The Sense Of Reality, John Armstrong Jan 2006

Depiction And The Sense Of Reality, John Armstrong

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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"Inspired Industry.", Amanda M. Dock Dec 2005

"Inspired Industry.", Amanda M. Dock

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled "Inspired Industry" at Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, Tennessee, from November 14 - December 22, 2005. It is the culmination of studies and research affected by the artist's own industry vis-à-vis personal inspirations, including: discussion of aesthetics and personal utilization of the techniques learned in relation to both functional and non-functional ceramic forms. This is a self-evaluation of personal preferences and how this body of ceramic work evolved.

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Mixed Media November 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Nov 2005

Mixed Media November 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 30, 2005 issue includes articles on issues with Portfolio Cafe, whether the "RISD Bubble" still exists, an increased number of Asian students at RISD, future goals for the Illustration department, career advice from a recent RISD graduate, a faculty member's favorite things at the RISD Museum, and the Cable Car Cinema, along with the comics "Campfire Building" by Steve Weed, "My Experience with Health Services" by Melissa Meyer, "I Get These Great Ideas" by Melissa Meyer, "Damn Animation" by Ian Topple, student creative work, event notices, and other …

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Pascal Was No Fideist, David J. Baggett Oct 2005

Pascal Was No Fideist, David J. Baggett

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Whistler’S Fog And The Aesthetics Of Place, Bruce Janz Jul 2005

Whistler’S Fog And The Aesthetics Of Place, Bruce Janz

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The concept of place has usually been understood as either a phenomenological, epistemological, or ethical category. An understanding of place as aesthetic or rhetorical, on the other hand, tends to focus on the widely varied uses of the concept. First, I sketch out the wide range of uses of place, that have been drawn from writings on the concept. These uses are not definitions of place, but rather functions that the term performs. Place stands in for other ideas, and allows access to different aspects of human experience. Second, I will draw from this range of uses some ideas about …

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Mixed Media March 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 2005

Mixed Media March 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 30, 2005 issue includes articles on a dispute between South Korea and Japan over the island Dokdo/Takeshima, a faculty member's steamer trunk and experience traveling, RISD's approach to solar energy, the Korean War, all-nighters at RISD, a Mixed Media tour of the RISD President's house, The Silk Road Project residency at RISD, film reviews, and senior shows, along with the comic "Scorpio" by Andrew Kaiko, student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.

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Reports Relating To The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland Mar 2005

Reports Relating To The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Mixed Media January 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Jan 2005

Mixed Media January 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The January 30, 2005 issue includes articles on a class on the art of the music video, a student trip to Boston, a manifesto of "badism," a student's accident while swimming, a student accident while sledding, restaurant reviews, film reviews, and an inerview with comic writer and illustrator Dan Clowes, along with the comic "Scorpio" by Andrew Kaiko, student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.

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Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice Of Music In Plato, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich Jan 2005

Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice Of Music In Plato, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

After retracing the breadth of the definition of music in antiquity to the end of justifying the sense in which one may speak of 'the music of philosophy' as Plato's Socrates does, this essay re-reads the Platonic distinction between philosophy as the highest kind of music and performative, as heard or played sung music as a lower form. It then turns to an exploration of Nietzsche's writing style conceived on a muscial model precisely qua aphoristic and concludes with a review of Heidegger's thought as musically composed or adumbrated.

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Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland Jan 2005

Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy Jan 2005

Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy Jan 2005

Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Review: There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler Jan 2005

Review: There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Foucault And Habermas, David Ingram Jan 2005

Foucault And Habermas, David Ingram

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The article is a comprehensive comparison of Foucault and Habermas which focuses on their distinctive styles of critical theory. The article maintains that Foucault's virtue ethical understanding of aesthetic self-realization as a form of resistance to normalizing practices provides counterpoint to Habermas's more juridical approach to institutional justice and the critique of ideology. The article contains an extensive discussion of their respective treatments of speech action, both strategic and communicative, and concludes by addressing Foucault's understanding of parrhesia as a non-discursive form of truth-telling.

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Are Video Games Art?, Aaron Smuts Jan 2005

Are Video Games Art?, Aaron Smuts

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I argue that by any major definition of art many modern video games should be considered art. Rather than defining art and defending video games based on a single contentious definition, I offer reasons for thinking that video games can be art according to historical, aesthetic, institutional, representational and expressive theories of art. Overall, I argue that while many video games probably should not be considered art, there are good reasons to think that some video games should be classified as art, and that the debates concerning the artistic status of chess and sports offer some insights …

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Avant-Garde Or Pré-Jugé?, Sinead Murphy Jan 2005

Avant-Garde Or Pré-Jugé?, Sinead Murphy

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper receives its impetus from Gadamer's account of effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte) and his corresponding challenge to the 'problem of purity' that he locates in Kant's critique of aesthetic judgment and that derives from the attempt to establish universal founding principles for thought and action. This is a deep and wide-ranging issue, and so I focus on a very specific aspect of it: the division between intuition and understanding, between history as a given flux and enlightenment as a unifying synthesis, that motivates Kant's search for pure reflective grounds to reconcile them, and on the challenge posed to this division …

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Does Sad Music Make One Sad? An Ethnographic Perspective, Peter Manuel Jan 2005

Does Sad Music Make One Sad? An Ethnographic Perspective, Peter Manuel

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The question of the presence and role of negative emotions in the experience of music - Does sad music make one sad? - has been recognized as a key to understanding much musical experience, especially in terms of the apprehension and expressive power of specifically formal features of music. One set of scholars, sometimes loosely labeled "emotivists," has argued that negative emotional responses do play a central role in the apprehension of much music, that is, that actual sadness is a natural, intentional and essential response to sad music. Advocates of this view base their arguments in large part on …

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Anchorage To The World, Ken-Ichi Sasaki Jan 2005

Anchorage To The World, Ken-Ichi Sasaki

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

We are anchored to the world because we are bodies. For us, the world means human society based upon nature. Nature is an essential constituent. For human being is bodily existence: social relationships are basically formed through the contact between these bodily existences, one with another, and the cultural space, that is, the city, is based on matter and surrounded by nature. Hence the possibility and the necessity of anchorage. An inanimate object is simply thrown into the sea of matter. Human bodies, on the contrary, do not only belong to this material texture in a passive way but can …

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'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Jan 2005

'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Philosophers have had comparatively little to say of the art of dance, a surprising fact given the range of people both inside and outside of dance who have claimed that 'man has always danced.' This essay attempts to substantiate this claim by an inquiry into the origins of dance, its focal attention being on the word always and any linkage to males deriving from that focal point of attention. It begins with evolutionary considerations in the form of courtship displays, behaviors finely and extensively described by Darwin, and goes on to consider displays by chimpanzees in particular. These considerations point …

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Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks And Mere Real Things, Serge Grigoriev Jan 2005

Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks And Mere Real Things, Serge Grigoriev

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this essay I examine the conceptual difficulties generated by drawing a distinction between artworks and mere real things. I argue that the distinction is an unfortunate one, requiring for its operation an assumption of possibility of an objective value judgment with regard to aesthetic productions, which, in reality cannot be defensible on purely philosophical grounds. The distinction, in fact, may be useful in describing the interactions between the artworld, qua a cultural institution, and the socio-economic environment in which it is situated; yet, it proves misleading when introduced into discussions about the nature of artworks and the nature of …

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Carrying The Jade Tablet: A Consideration Of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis Jan 2005

Carrying The Jade Tablet: A Consideration Of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this paper I discuss the aesthetic dimension of ritual action. In order to demonstrate how the rites render action aesthetically expressive, I draw on the notion of an "art of context" and further detail the Confucian understanding of artistic practice as an essential component for moral cultivation. In turn, I use John Dewey's account of aesthetic form in order to support and further demonstrate the ability of the rituals and arts to organize action and to thereby render it aesthetically significant. However, Dewey's account entails that we question either conceptual or institutional limitations of aesthetic form as such limitations …

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