2011
DOI: 10.33134/eeja.77
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Contrary Feelings and the Cognitive Significance of Art

Abstract: Emotional response to artworks as a source of moral training or experimentation has long been disputed in the history of aesthetics. In this article I address the matter by focusing upon a kind of specimen that may by especially troublesome for an advocate of art's capacity to educate our sentiments. The cases I focus upon-which I place under the label of the asymmetry problem-are those in which our emotional or evaluative response seems contrary to the one we would have expected when the represented contents … Show more

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