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Question If we assert that aesthetic experience has no definable cognitive component what makes it an important subject of philosophical interest?

Accepted:
June 20, 2013

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Presumably it's only the philosophical interest which leads to the conclusion that it has no cognitive component in the first place ... Or rather, it's a matter of philosophical debate whether it does ... But if you are suggesting (as you seem to) that once a philosopher decides that aesthetic experience is non-cognitive there are no further philosophical issues, then I'll leave it to those specializing in aesthetics to provide an answer ... (At the least a non-specialist such as myself would wonder: if aesthetic experience is non-cognitive then how does it relate to other (sensory) experiences? what marks off an experience as aesthetic then? what is the nature/relationship of the different sensory modalities? the relationship between sensory experience and pleasure etc...?)

hope that's a useful start.

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Question If we assert that aesthetic experience has no definable cognitive component what makes it an important subject of philosophical interest? Accepted:June 20, 2013

Question If we assert that aesthetic experience has no definable cognitive component what makes it an important subject of philosophical interest?

Accepted:
June 20, 2013