Cognitive Rethinking of Beauty

Uniting the Philosophy and Cognitive Studies of Aesthetic Perception
Herausgegeben:VEDA; Démuth, Andrej

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The presented book is a direct sequel to the previous collections of studies "The Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience - Introduction" (2017) and "The Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience - Selected Problems" (2019), and represents the culmination of the project which examines whether it is possible to identify the cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgments and in the perception of beauty, and whether it is possible to meaningfully establish cognitive aesthetics as a unified scientific discipline (philosophy united with a cognitive approach), studying the epistemic background of beauty and art.

Produktdetails

• Spectrum Slovakia 28
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 279492
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 177mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9783631794920
• Artikelnr.: 57954343

Autorenporträt

Andrej Démuth is a Professor of philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He studied philosophy and psychology, and is the author of many books and articles on cognition and the relationship between reflected and non reflected knowledge. His research focuses on modern philosophy, epistemology and cognitive studies.

Inhaltsangabe

The Formalist, Neurobiological and Anti-Formalist Beauty - Is Beauty Measurable? - Ambiguity as the Sources for Beauty - Ten Problems of Neuroaesthetics - Language of Emotions - Beauty in the Context of Evolutionary Approaches - The Uniting Philosophy with Cognitive-Scientific Examinations of Beauty - The Development of Aesthetic Experience and Freedom