Aesthetic Knowledge by Jon Robson
How do we arrive at aesthetic knowledge? This might seem an odd question for philosophers to ask. Some will take its answer to be obvious: we learn about the aesthetic qualities of paintings by looking at them, of musical works by listening to them, and so on. Others will take the question to be misguided, how can there be aesthetic knowledge when aesthetics is merely 'a matter of taste'? Finally, aesthetic knowledge itself might seem singularly unimportant. We don't engage with beautiful artworks to learn that they're beautiful but, rather, to appreciate that beauty. This Element argues that each of these objections is misplaced. Aesthetic knowledge is both valuable and attainable, but canonical philosophical (and folk) views of how we attain it are mistaken. The Element surveys some recent arguments against the reliability of aesthetic perception and in favour of other, more social, sources of aesthetic knowledge.- Knowledge-To in Classical Confucianism
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Justifying Memory
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An Anti-Sceptical Metaphysics and Epistemology of Perception
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Shifty Epistemology
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Reliabilism and its Rivals
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Sincerity and Insincerity
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The Nature and Normativity of Defeat
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Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism
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On Believing and Being Convinced
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Knowing What It Is Like
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The Indispensability of Intuitions
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Transcendental Epistemology
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The Epistemic Consequences of Paradox
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Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
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The Skeptic and the Veridicalist
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Stratified Virtue Epistemology
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The Epistemology of Logic
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Disagreement
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Deception and Self-Deception
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Emotional Self-Knowledge
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Knowledge-First Epistemology
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Knowledge and God
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The A Priori without Magic
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Defining Knowledge
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Foundationalism
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Wisdom
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Coherentism
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009571777 |
| ISBN 10 | 100957177X |
| Title | Aesthetic Knowledge |
| Author | Jon Robson |
| Series | Elements In Epistemology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
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