Knowing Art Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology
Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They obviously afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. Knowing Art collects ten original essays written by le
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES VOLUME 107
Founded by Wilfrid S. Sellars and Keith Lehrer
Editor Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona, Tucson Associate Editor Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Tempe Board of Consulting Editors Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Radu Bogdan, Tulane University, New Orleans Marian David, University of Notre Dame Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan Denise Meyerson, Macquarie University François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, EHESS, Paris Stuart Silvers, Clemson University Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo Nicholas D. Smith, Lewis & Clark College
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
KNOWING ART Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology Edited by
MATTHEW KIERAN University of Leeds, U.K. and
DOMINIC MCIVER LOPES University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-5264-4 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6785-3 (PB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5265-1 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Cover art: Claude Cormier, Blue Tree, Cornerstone Gardens, 2004. Photo Courtesy of Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma, California, 2004.
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Contents
Editors’Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on Contributors
ix
Introduction Matthew Kieran and Dominic McIver Lopes
xi
PART I: Knowing Through Art CHAPTER 1: Knowing Content in the Visual Arts Keith Lehrer CHAPTER 2: Pictures, Knowledge, and Power: The Case of T. J. Clark Derek Matravers
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19
CHAPTER 3: Narrating the Truth (More or Less) Stacie Friend
35
CHAPTER 4: Fiction and Psychological Insight Kathleen Stock
51
CHAPTER 5: Art and Modal Knowledge Dustin Stokes
67
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Contents
CHAPTER 6: Charley’s World: Narratives of Aesthetic Experience Peter Goldie
83
PART II: Knowing About Art CHAPTER 7: Really Bad Taste Jesse Prinz
95
CHAPTER 8: Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Testimony Aaron Meskin
109
CHAPTER 9: Critical Compatibilism James Shelley
125
CHAPTER 10: Critical Reasoning and Critical Perception Robert Hopkins
137
References
155
Editors’ Acknowledgements
This collection is the culmination of a three-year campaign, beginning with a conference at the University of British Columbia, to open up new frontiers of inquiry into the epistemology of art and aesthetic judgment. We first of all thank the contributors for their endurance as well as their skill. We acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a grant that made this ca
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