This essay surveys the main objections to aesthetic hedonism, the view that aesthetic value
is reducible to the value of aesthetic pleasure or experience. Hedonism is the dominant view …

Recent work within such disparate research areas as the epistemology of perception,
theories of well-being, animal and medical ethics, the philosophy of consciousness and …

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 …

According to tradition, aesthetic value is non‐contingently connected to a certain feeling of
liking or pleasure. Is that true? Two answers are on offer in the field of aesthetics today: 1 …

Our paradigms of aesthetic value condition the philosophical questions we pose and hope
to answer about it. Theories of aesthetic value are typically individualistic, in the sense that …

Dogmatism often seems to come packaged with a mood of grim and unpleasant
humorlessness. This chapter looks to see if there might be some plausible cognitive function …

The aim of the paper is to reassess the prospects of a widely neglected affective conception
of the aesthetic evaluation and appreciation of art. On the proposed picture, the aesthetic …

Twelve per cent of UK theatregoers have a disability. This compares with 18% of the UK's
adult population. Directors can help build audiences as diverse as the population at large by …

Listening effort helps explain why people who are hard of hearing are prone to fatigue and
social withdrawal. However, a one-factor model that cites only effort due to hardness of …

What is the source of aesthetic knowledge? Empirical knowledge, it is generally held,
bottoms out in perception. Such knowledge can be transmitted to others through testimony …