TY - JOUR
T1 - Sibley on 'beautiful' and 'ugly'
AU - SAUCHELLI, Andrea
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Frank Sibley's ideas have been particularly influential among contemporary philosophers interested in aesthetics. Most studies, however, have focused only on his earlier works. In this essay, I explore Sibley's account of the adjectives beautiful and ugly, paying particular attention to three papers that have only recently been published and that have not yet received adequate attention. In particular, I discuss his account of the adjective beautiful, which relies on the controversial notion of an aesthetic ideal. In addition, I discuss an account of how aesthetic judgements may change in relation to our coming to know the kind of object being judged and whether, as Sibley maintains, beautiful and ugly are asymmetric in the sense specified by the author.
AB - Frank Sibley's ideas have been particularly influential among contemporary philosophers interested in aesthetics. Most studies, however, have focused only on his earlier works. In this essay, I explore Sibley's account of the adjectives beautiful and ugly, paying particular attention to three papers that have only recently been published and that have not yet received adequate attention. In particular, I discuss his account of the adjective beautiful, which relies on the controversial notion of an aesthetic ideal. In addition, I discuss an account of how aesthetic judgements may change in relation to our coming to know the kind of object being judged and whether, as Sibley maintains, beautiful and ugly are asymmetric in the sense specified by the author.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/2222
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908554203&doi=10.1080%2f05568641.2014.976441&partnerID=40&md5=c63187b07d989699fa52546607e91fa3
U2 - 10.1080/05568641.2014.976441
DO - 10.1080/05568641.2014.976441
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0556-8641
VL - 43
SP - 377
EP - 404
JO - Philosophical Papers
JF - Philosophical Papers
IS - 3
ER -