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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Identifying Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Theory in Aesthetics | |
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| What Makes a Situation Aesthetic? | |
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| The Artworld | |
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| Defining Art Historically | |
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| The New Institutional Theory of Art | |
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| An Aesthetic Definition of Art | |
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| Weitz's Anti-Essentialism | |
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| Ontology of Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art | |
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| What a Musical Work Is | |
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| Platonism in Music: A Kind of Defense | |
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| Art Works as Action Types | |
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| Aesthetic Properties | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aesthetic Concepts | |
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| Categories of Art | |
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| The Possibility of Aesthetic Realism | |
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| Intention and Interpretation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The "Meaning" of a Literary Work | |
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| Intentions and Interpretations: A Fallacy Revived | |
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| Intention and Interpretation in Literature | |
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| The Constructivist's Dilemma | |
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| Values of Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aesthetic Appraisal and Works of Art | |
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| Particularity, Art and Evaluation | |
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| The Test of Time | |
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| Artistic Value | |
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| Tragedy and Moral Value | |
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| The Ethical Criticism of Art | |
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| Fictionality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina? | |
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| Fearing Fictions | |
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| The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse | |
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| How Can We Fear and Pity Fictions? | |
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| On the Cognitive Triviality of Art | |
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| Pictorial Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Are Representations Symbols? | |
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| Photography and Representation | |
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| Originals, Copies, and Aesthetic Value | |
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| How Pictures Look | |
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| On Pictorial Representation | |
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| Literature | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Style and Personality in the Literary Work | |
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| Literary Aesthetics and Literary Practice | |
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| The Death of the Author: An Analytical Autopsy | |
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| Music | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding Music | |
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| The Profundity of Music | |
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| The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music | |
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| Popular Art | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Power of Movies | |
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| Prolegomena to Any Aesthetics of Rock Music | |
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| Rock versus Classical Music | |
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| Aesthetics of Nature | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Contemporary Aesthetics and the Neglect of Natural Beauty | |
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| Appreciation and the Natural Environment | |
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| The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature | |
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| Index | |