The purpose of this essay is two-fold: first to determine what" the aesthetic" is as the defining
and delimiting characteristic of objects felt to be aesthetic; second, to determine the …

I AM GOING to have to assume, for the pur-poses of my paper, a general familiarity with
Frank Sibley's position, as stated in his highly influential article," Aesthetic Con-cepts," and …

Much of the confusion and difficulty in aesthetic criticism stems from lack of clear and
adequate analysis of the nature of the art" work." The ground or basis of the critical and …

It is, I believe, the hallmark of" modern" aesthetics that it takes the concept of" the aesthetic
attitude" to be logically foundational in aes-thetic theory.'It is nothing less than a revolution …

S INCE a statement of essentials clarifies later discussion I shall acknowledge at once that I
can find no conception of aesthetic value as adequate as that contained in the idea that …

Explanations of the aesthetic object in either subjective or objective terms have been
severely criticized. The alternative is to locate the aesthetic object in a phenomenal or …

Ir IS WORTH remarking that we are obliged to qualify, in certain characteristic ways, our
philosophical habit of speaking of the" perception" of a work of art.'For instance, one speaks …

This paper does not undertake to consider any particular problem within the subject matter
of esthetics proper. Nor is it written from the standpoint of any single esthetic theory. It …

N his widely-discussed article'Aesthetic Concepts'(The Philosoph Review, Vol. 68, 1959)
Frank Sibley makes two claims which, given initially plausible assumption, appear to be …

The traditional business of aestheticians has been to supply an answer to the
question,“What is art?” A single question is put, and apparently it is assumed—though …