(y) Totally agree. This seems similar to Kant's concept of the "synthetic a priori". Kant wrote in Critique of Pure Reason - "The objects we intuit in...
The word "interact" seems problematic. Someone observes an artwork, the person becomes conscious of the artwork and the artwork becomes part of the pe...
Lots of questions. No. Neither Derain nor Derain's La Rivière bear any responsibility, no more than an apple sitting on a table bears any responsibili...
Adding background for my own benefit. Psychologism and anti-psychologism Frege, founder of logicism, attacked psychologism in his book The Foundations...
I am distinguishing between modernism and Modernism, whilst defining modernism as art that includes aesthetic quality. Some reference material include...
The fictional "Santa Claus" has an ontological existence, The name "Santa Claus" exists within fiction, fiction exists within language, language exist...
Perhaps this remains the sticking point, in that I tend to Modernism whilst you may be leaning towards Postmodernism. Both valid as definitions of art...
Perhaps this is what Wittgenstein was talking about in para 58 of Philosophical Investigations, where I think he is saying that a name such as "Santa ...
(y) Yes, "art work is information about............consciousness". But the only consciousness I have ever known is my own. I assume there are other co...
The figurine is an object that can be described as art, was made by a consciousness, where consciousness is a result of some kind of self-organisation...
(y) Anything about art is interesting. (y) As regards, Integrated Information Theory, I tend to panprotopsychism as an explanation rather than panpsyc...
Suppose a person is conscious of the information arriving through their senses from two objects in the world. For what reasons would that person deem ...
(y) I can see that Integrated Information Theory and Peirce's Theory of Pragmatic Information would be relevant to the meaning of art, and should ther...
For my own knowledge: Is Norbert Wiener's 1950 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society relevant to your position - where art is just a ...
@Constance "Calling an eclair sweet is certainly not a priori" (y) True. As further described by post-Darwinian "evolutionary aesthetics" and "evoluti...
In particular - Professor Denis Dutton. In general - "Evolutionary Aesthetics". Professor Dutton talks about "The Art Instinct" at www.youtube.com/wat...
Since at least the Lascaux cave paintings 17,000 years ago, beauty and aesthetics have been considered part of the essence of the meaning of art, part...
In a sense I am stretching the meaning of the words a priori and knowledge within the phrase "a priori knowledge". But in the case of the phrase "a pr...
(y) If only in real life were there Doctor Henry Black's who were present in art museums explaining to the passing public the importance of the painti...
@T Clark - "There are also definitions that are of very little use" (y) @T Clark - "Keeping in mind that "aesthetic" actually has an accepted meaning ...
If this were part of the Stanford University undergraduate progam in philosophy, it would be costing me $58,000 a year - so I can't complain at $40 a ...
Sentient life is not just an observer of the world but is a part of the world The human observer does not lead an existence separate to the world. The...
An object can only have value if first defined. An object defined as a ship that sinks on first entering the water can rightly be said to be no good a...
The problem is, how can the idea that "the essence of art is as an aesthetic" be expressed but not in propositional form, if as you say that "proposit...
Language is not part of the essence of a modernist artwork. I don't want to give the impression that I think that linguistic descriptions are part of ...
If I could suggest a description for your next Venice Biennale exhibit : "Located somewhere between a fantastical reality and the political chaos of m...
There are different approaches to a definition of art 1) Definitions as universal - @Pop wrote: "Art is an expression of human consciousness" - "consc...
I agree that I would have difficulty understanding what was going on if I saw an object such as a red letter box out of its normal context in the midd...
If I see a letter box at the end of the street, I may have the subjective experience of the colour red. I don't need to identify what shade of red it ...
I agree - the postmodernist "Artworld" with its "institutional definition of art" is destroying any value in the definition of art by pushing the agen...
When looking at the world, humans don't decide to distinguish between colours, but instinctively distinguish between colours, without thought or consc...
In a previous post I wrote "The aesthetic form of an object is independent of the object's context, as an object's aesthetic is the formal arrangement...
Thinking about the meaning of aesthetics rather than the definition of aesthetics: The belief that the aesthetic is Uniformity within Variety goes bac...
Part of the problem when discussing "art" are problems with terminology. As I see it: There are two meanings of aesthetics Aesthetic as a verb means t...
You are right. Similarly, when I am in the presence of any object, even though all objects have a temperature, I am not always appreciating that objec...
Every observed object has aesthetic value - but not all aesthetic values are equal If the aesthetic is understood as Hutcheson's "compound ratio of Un...
Yes. Derain in 1905 created the object Estaque which provides the observer's mind with something to consider, thereby allowing the concepts meaning an...
I agree with Pop "the quality of the art work resides in the mind of the artist, or observer" and Constance "I would put the entire enterprise of art ...
"Art" is expressed in human consciousness My belief is that "art" is a combination of an aesthetic and representation. As "aesthetic" and "representat...
There are many different definitions of "Art", of which the above is more relevant to the Post-Modernism that arose in the 1960's. This definition doe...
Does creativity originate in the brain, mind or consciousness. There is some kind of relationship between the brain, mind and consciousness. There is ...
1) Use the Philosophy Forum as a means of learning philosophy. 2) Find any thread you are interested in - eg "Complete vs. Incomplete Reality" 3) Find...
Is Kant referring to the whole of space or only a part of space Kant wrote "One can never forge a representation of the absence of space, though one c...
Continuing Russells' " The second metaphysical argument maintains that it is possible to imagine nothing in space, but impossible to imagine no space"...
Russell wrote "I should emphatically deny that we can imagine space with nothing in it" However, in the space above the table in front of me there is ...
I would suggest that rather than meaning being an inherent part of the world, it is rather an inherent part of sentient life, believed to have begun d...
The proposition "non-existence can't exist" is a linguistic curiosity and not a path to an ontological truth Because words happen to be in the form of...
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