Aesthetic normativity and suitable prompting

Rob van Gerwen

doi:10.58519/aesthinv.v4i1.11920

Aesthetic normativity and suitable prompting

Authors

Rob van Gerwen Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v4i1.11920

Keywords:

aesthetic normativity, aspect blindness, autism, Wittgenstein, Wollheim, philosophical aesthetics, empirical aesthetics

Abstract

This Editor's column summarises some of the insights I got from Richard Wollheim over the years, and from a recent Teams-chat with students in my class. Most notably: the role of suitable prompting in aesthetic normativity. In a sense, these insights help me understand this remark from Wittgenstein: `The existence of the experimental method makes us think we have the means of solving the problems which trouble us; though problem and method pass one another by.' (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 232e).

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Published

2020-12-31

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue: Empirical Aesthetics

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From the Editor

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