Books
Riccardo Manzotti

Situated Aesthetics

This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals.
The event threw up common grounds for future research activities. First, there is a considerable interest in using cognitive and neural inspired techniques to help art historians, museum curators, art archiving, art preservation. Secondly, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists are rather open to using art as a special way of accessing the structures of the mind. Third, there are artists who explicitly draw inspiration out of current research on various aspects of the mind. Fourth, during the workshop, a converging methodological paradigm emerged around which more specific efforts could be encouraged.
427 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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  • b9212002917has quoted3 years ago
    Aesthetic experience is reframed as an activity that encompasses some of the epistemic, social and historical aspects stressed by many recent scholars of aesthetics (from Danto to Walton).
  • b9212002917has quoted3 years ago
    externalism suggests that environment is not only a substitute of internal processes but rather the source of new mental processes.
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