Resources for the weekly class ‘Philosophy of Art’
Andrea Lechler
# = 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.)
Companions (introductions to different topics in the philosophy of art by multiple authors)
* Gaut, Berys, and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. 3rd ed.
London: Routledge, 2013. (* # 2nd ed. from 2005)
# Hanfling, Oswald, ed. Philosophical Aesthetics. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Kieran, Matthew, ed. Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2005.
* Kivy, Peter, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
* Levinson, Jerrold, ed. Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
* A Companion to Aesthetics. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
*# Neill, Alex and Aaron Ridley. Arguing about Art. Contemporary Philosophical Debates.
Routledge, 2008/2013.
Anthologies (excerpts mainly from primary sources)
# Cahn, Steven M. and Aaron Meskin, eds. Aesthetics. A Comprehensive Anthology. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008.
# Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen, eds. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic
Tradition. An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
# Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard, eds. The Oxford Reader in Aesthetics. Oxford: OUP, 1997.
Reference works
Tiger C. Roholt. Key Terms in Philosophy of Art. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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-97801953965770004.xml (accessed 27-Jan-2014). (This is only fully accessible with a subscription.)
Check the following shelf in the Continuing Education Library for more books on the philosophy of
art: 111.85
Podcasts
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures by James Grant: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/aestheticsand-philosophy-art-lectures
Podcasts of the London Aesthetics Forum: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/london-aestheticsforum/id408225637?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
References for individual classes (some references are to the above works)
What is beauty?
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* 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.
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/
* 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/
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&Ite
mid=28
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-strokessentiments-standards
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.
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* 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
#* 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/
What is art?
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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
Genius and the creation of art
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* # Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, §§ 43 - 50.
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* 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)
Content, meaning, and artists’ intentions
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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
Music and emotions
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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.
Jerrold Levinson. ‘Musical Expressiveness as Hearability‐as‐Expression’ and ‘Sound, Gesture,
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
What can we learn from art?
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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
Moral evaluation of art and its relation to aesthetic or artistic evaluation
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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.
Evaluating art and the aims of art criticism
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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/