The Aesthetic Mind

Elisabeth Schellekens is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham, and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. She is the author of Aesthetics & Morality (Continuum, 2007), co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (Routledge, 2009), and is currently working on a book on Aesthetic Objectivism. She was post-doctoral research fellow on the AHRC-funded project 'Towards an aesthetic psychology: the philosophy of aesthetic perception and cognition' between 2004 and 2006. Her main research interests include questions at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and aesthetics, meta-ethics, and Kant. Peter Goldie was formerly Samuel Hall Professor in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He authored a number of books, including The Mess Inside (OUP, 2012), Philosophy and Conceptual Art (OUP, 2007), On Personality (Routledge, 2004), and The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (Clarendon Press, 2000).

The question of what we philosophers of art ought to make of empirical research results and methods is one whose answer we are still very much feeling our way towards. The great value of this collection is that, with it, the terrain we must traverse to do so is now all the clearer.

• PART 1: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE AESTHETIC; PART 2: EMOTION IN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE; PART 3: BEAUTY AND UNIVERSALITY; PART 4: IMAGINATION AND MAKE-BELIEVE; PART 5: FICTION AND EMPATHY; PART 6: MUSIC, DANCE, AND EXPRESSIVITY; PART 7: PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION AND APPRECIATION