No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic
values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They …

To" look good" and to" be good" have traditionally been considered two very different
notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally …

Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does
beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to …

Philosophical Aesthetics is a discipline with fewer natural friends than foes. From within the
academic world, it is regularly considered ancillary, charged with dealing merely …

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It
examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature …

The aesthetic is a pervasive phenomenon. It is found not only in the arts, but also in our
endeavors as everyday actors who eat, drink, touch, move, see, hear, read, or not, who …

I offer an analysis of the role played by consideration of an item's functions when it is judged
aesthetically. The account applies also to artworks, of which some serve extrinsic functions …

What possesses aesthetic value? According to a broad view, it can be found almost
anywhere. According to a narrower view, it is found primarily in art and is applied to other …

Page 1 Aesthetics: the Big Questions Page 2 Philosophy: The Big Questions Series Editor:
James P. Sterba, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Designed to elicit a philosophical response …

Apparently snobbery undermines justification for and legitimacy of aesthetic claims. It is also
pervasive in the aesthetic realm, much more so than we tend to presume. If these two claims …