Philosophy of Art - The Philosophy Forum Archive

Paradise is not Lost

by Ecurb January 07, 2026 at 15:05 15 comments

The Aestheticization of Evil

by Astorre November 07, 2025 at 11:07 101 comments

Italo Calvino -- Reading the Classics

by javi2541997 September 11, 2025 at 11:02 20 comments

What is a painting?

by Moliere July 17, 2025 at 20:49 377 comments

A Matter of Taste

by Moliere July 03, 2025 at 19:59 194 comments

What Is Fiction and the Scope of the Literary Imagination: How May it be Understood Philosophically?

by Jack Cummins June 21, 2025 at 15:21 18 comments

Is there an objective quality?

by Red Sky June 08, 2025 at 16:35 150 comments

Why did Cleopatra not play Rock'n'Roll?

by Quk May 18, 2025 at 18:57 46 comments

Beauty and ugliness are intrinsic features of our experiences

by MoK January 11, 2025 at 12:17 84 comments

Art Lies Beyond Morality

by ucarr October 07, 2024 at 18:28 92 comments

Tragedy and Pleasure?

by Jack Cummins August 01, 2024 at 16:56 112 comments

American Idol: Art?

by ENOAH May 28, 2024 at 20:38 152 comments

Violence & Art

by gadzooks March 22, 2024 at 13:37 62 comments

The Nature of Art

by Ciceronianus March 01, 2024 at 21:14 89 comments

What is creativity?

by Arbü1237 February 28, 2024 at 02:29 37 comments

On Fosse's Nobel lecture: 'A Silent Language'

by javi2541997 December 13, 2023 at 11:34 123 comments

New school of study into the way that Art promotes knowledge and understanding

by Saskia November 24, 2023 at 08:39 5 comments

Unenjoyable art: J. G. Ballard’s Crash

by Jamal October 05, 2023 at 07:14 72 comments

Art Created by Artificial Intelligence

by T_Clark September 27, 2023 at 18:09 91 comments

"Beauty noise" , when art is too worked on

by Italy June 26, 2023 at 10:54 37 comments

Philosophy Is Comedy

by ucarr February 01, 2023 at 14:38 30 comments

The beauty asymmetry

by Bartricks January 03, 2023 at 01:35 38 comments

Material image

by Niccolò Montemagni December 08, 2022 at 21:17 1 comments

The ultimate significance of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", and most of Friedrich Nietzsche's other books

by Bret Bernhoft October 24, 2022 at 19:27 91 comments

Form Versus Function in Art

by Noble Dust October 18, 2022 at 04:17 39 comments

Poem meaning

by Moliere October 06, 2022 at 17:36 233 comments

The Twerk That Shook the Nation

by praxis October 02, 2022 at 03:44 25 comments

2001: A Space Odyssey's monolith.

by javi2541997 September 19, 2022 at 16:53 68 comments

Marvel_DC: Are They Radio Plays?

by ucarr August 17, 2022 at 16:00 16 comments

Bill Hicks largely ignored, while Joe Rogan is celebrated

by Bret Bernhoft August 03, 2022 at 00:50 13 comments

On beautiful and sublime.

by javi2541997 July 27, 2022 at 19:26 41 comments

Skill, craft, technique in art

by T_Clark June 24, 2022 at 18:12 231 comments

Citing Sources

by MonfortS26 June 15, 2022 at 01:49 28 comments

What does beauty have to do with art?

by Jackson May 24, 2022 at 02:31 99 comments

Facing up suicide: is the concept of death the main difference between Western and Japanese artists?

by javi2541997 April 23, 2022 at 13:33 29 comments

The three philosophies underlying most Cyberpunk characters and plot points

by Bret Bernhoft April 01, 2022 at 01:15 13 comments

Can literature finish religion?

by javi2541997 February 12, 2022 at 14:28 38 comments

Should Money Be Stripped from the Ideal Evaluation of Arts?

by D2OTSSUMMERBUG January 21, 2022 at 06:13 20 comments

Can this art work even be defaced?

by BC January 09, 2022 at 22:24 329 comments

Introduction to reconstruction: As I Lay Dying

by thaumasnot January 02, 2022 at 17:12 12 comments

Is beauty the lack of ugly or major flaw?

by TiredThinker December 27, 2021 at 05:09 16 comments

A different style of interpretation: Conceptual Reconstructionism

by thaumasnot November 28, 2021 at 15:43 144 comments

Music and Mind

by Jack Cummins November 28, 2021 at 13:13 74 comments

The Art of Cinema, Auteurism, and Erotic Desire

by kudos November 14, 2021 at 18:48 0 comments

Hillary Hahn, Rosalyn Tureck, E. Power Biggs

by Deleted User September 19, 2021 at 18:23 58 comments