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Aesthetics is the Philosophy of Our Wordless World

“…In the seminal text Art as Experience (1934), John Dewey bemoans the one-sided idea of the nature of perception', whereby the 'elements of seeking and of thinking are subordinated to the perfecting of the process of perception itself ...resulting in a thoroughly anaeamic [sic] conception of art'. 6 No longer constrained by the limits of perception, we can develop what James Shelley calls non-perceptual aesthetic properties (or features) to demonstrate the necessity of extra-perceptual components. 7 Despite Dewey's concerns regarding exclusively perceptual approaches, philosophers of mind, historically constrained to theoretical debates, have recently launched the sub-area known as philosophy of perception.…”