Knowing Art Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kieran, Matthew (Editor), Lopes, Dominic McIver (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series ; 107
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Arts.; Aesthetics.; Epistemology.; Ethics.

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 leading philosophers who distill and build upon...

Table of Contents:

• Knowing Through Art
• Knowing Content in the Visual Arts
• Pictures, Knowledge, and Power: The Case of T. J. Clark
• Narrating the Truth (More or Less)
• Fiction and Psychological Insight
• Art and Modal Knowledge
• Charley’s World: Narratives of Aesthetic Experience
• Knowing About Art
• Really Bad Taste
• Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Testimony
• Critical Compatibilism
• Critical Reasoning and Critical Perception.