Philosophical aesthetics and cognitive science

Abstract

Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with art, beauty, and related phenomena. Philosophers have often been skeptical about the place of empirical investigation in aesthetics. However, in recent years many philosophical aestheticians have turned to cognitive science to enrich their understanding of their subject matter. Cognitive scientists have, in turn, been inspired by work in philosophical aesthetics. This essay focuses on a representative subset of the areas in which there has been fruitful dialog between philosophical aestheticians and cognitive scientists. We start with some general topics in philosophical aesthetics—the definition of art and the epistemic status of aesthetic judgments. We then move on to discussing research concerning the roles that imagination and perception play in our aesthetic engagement. We conclude with a discussion of the emerging field of experimental philosophical aesthetics. WIREs Cogn Sci 2018, 9:e1445. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1445 This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Value

Adaptación y validación del cuestionario de interés y conocimiento en arte de Viena (VAIAK)

“…Fechner, 1876;Arnheim, 1965), pero lejos de ser un área en vías de extinción tuvo un desarrollo reciente a la luz de nuevos modelos cognitivos y neurocognitivos (Pelowski, Markey, Forster, Gerger, & Leder, 2017). Incluso en campos de estética filosófica se empezó a considerar el conocimiento producido desde la ciencia cognitiva como válido para enriquecer la comprensión de los fenómenos de recepción artística (Meskin, Robson, Ichino, Goffin, & Monseré, 2018). Más allá del estudio básico de la conducta estética humana, el potencial rol de intervenciones basadas en obras de arte para la promoción de salud y bienestar (Fancourt & Finn, 2019) y de conductas y actitudes prosociales (Kou, Konrath, & Goldstein, 2019), constituye una motivación para entender los procesos de percepción y experiencia estética de obras de arte visual.…”

The Perniciousness of Higher-Order Evidence on Aesthetic Appreciation

“… 4 See, for example, Brochet (2001); Cutting (2003); Malfeito-Ferreira (2021); Salganik et al (2006); Salganik and Watts (2009); Wansink et al (2007). For discussion of this evidence as it relates to philosophical aesthetics, see Kieran (2010, 2011); Meskin et al (2018); Sackris (2018, 2020). …”

What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.

“…It is also unclear who, in fact, are engaged in aesthetics research, or if work produced by psychologists or neuroscientists is recognized as bona fide contributions to “real” aesthetics by scholars in, say, philosophy or art history (Pearce et al, 2016; Skov & Nadal, 2020). Many researchers outside psychology and neuroscience have voiced strong skepticism about the ability of psychological and neuroscientific methods to produce knowledge that have any bearing on topics that are of importance to aesthetics (Croft, 2011; Dickie, 1962; Hyman, 2010; Meskin, Robson, Ichino, Goffin, & Monseré, 2018; Noë, 2015). Meanwhile, inside the broader confines of psychology and neuroscience it is often unclear how work into aesthetics can be demarcated from other forms of research.…”