Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value (1996), Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2010). He is currently co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

The book covers a lot of ground, and the various stops along the way are vividly presented and carefully argued.

• 1: Introduction Part I: Two Kinds of Value: The Aesthetic and The Artistic 2: What is Aesthetic Value? 3: Why Artistic Value is not Aesthetic Value 4: Two Definitions of Artistic Value Part II: Interacting Values in Art 5: Aesthetic Value, Inversion, and the Ethical Properties of Artworks 6: Literature as Thought Part III: The Aesthetics of Nature and the Everyday 7: The Fundamental Problem of Environmental Aesthetics 8: Moral norms and Nature Appreciation 9: Artefacts: Function and Appreciation 10: Concluding Remarks

Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value (1996), Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2010). He is currently co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

The book covers a lot of ground, and the various stops along the way are vividly presented and carefully argued.

• 1: Introduction Part I: Two Kinds of Value: The Aesthetic and The Artistic 2: What is Aesthetic Value? 3: Why Artistic Value is not Aesthetic Value 4: Two Definitions of Artistic Value Part II: Interacting Values in Art 5: Aesthetic Value, Inversion, and the Ethical Properties of Artworks 6: Literature as Thought Part III: The Aesthetics of Nature and the Everyday 7: The Fundamental Problem of Environmental Aesthetics 8: Moral norms and Nature Appreciation 9: Artefacts: Function and Appreciation 10: Concluding Remarks

Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value (1996), Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law (2003), and Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2010). He is currently co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

The book covers a lot of ground, and the various stops along the way are vividly presented and carefully argued.

• 1: Introduction Part I: Two Kinds of Value: The Aesthetic and The Artistic 2: What is Aesthetic Value? 3: Why Artistic Value is not Aesthetic Value 4: Two Definitions of Artistic Value Part II: Interacting Values in Art 5: Aesthetic Value, Inversion, and the Ethical Properties of Artworks 6: Literature as Thought Part III: The Aesthetics of Nature and the Everyday 7: The Fundamental Problem of Environmental Aesthetics 8: Moral norms and Nature Appreciation 9: Artefacts: Function and Appreciation 10: Concluding Remarks