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On Beauty and Wellformedness Open
Taking my cue from the longest-standing theory of beauty to date, which identified beauty with formal properties such as order, harmony, and proportion, I argue that wellformedness—understood under a tripartite account comprising abstract,…
Delineating beauty: On form and the boundaries of the aesthetic Open
Philosophical aesthetics has recently been expanding its purview—with exciting work on everyday aesthetics, somaesthetics, gustatory aesthetics, and the aesthetics of imperceptibilia like mathematics and human character—reclaiming territor…
On the Importance of Beauty and Taste Open
We have all heard people say ‘Beauty is only skin-deep’, or ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’: our culture promulgates a conception of beauty as subjective, superficial, and independent of other values like moral goodness or knowledge…
PHS volume 92 Cover and Front matter Open
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The Aesthetics of Ethics: Exemplarism, Beauty, and the Psychology of Morality Open
Linda Zagzebski recently defended moral exemplarism, a new moral theory on which key moral terms are defined by direct reference to exemplars.Footnote1 The theory is meant as an alternative to theories like consequentialism and deontology …
Functional Beauty, Pleasure, and Experience Open
I offer a set of sufficient conditions for beauty, drawing on Parsons and Carlson’s account of ‘functional beauty’. First, I argue that Parsons and Carlson’s account is flawed, whilst falling short of its promise of bringing comprehensivenes…
Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis? Open
This article has two aims. First, to offer a critical review of the literatures on two well-known single-component solutions to the problem of a gap between moral knowledge and moral action: moral identity and moral emotions. Second, to ta…
The ‘Moralism’ in Immoralism: A Critique of Immoralism in Aesthetics Open
According to immoralists, some artworks are better aesthetically in virtue of their immorality. A. W. Eaton recently offered a novel defence of this view, seeking to overcome shortcomings in previous accounts, thereby occasioning a reconsi…
The Deformity-Related Conception of Ugliness Open
Ugliness is a neglected topic in contemporary analytic aesthetics. This is regrettable given that this topic is not just genuinely fascinating, but could also illuminate other areas in the field, seeing as ugliness, albeit unexplored, does…