Contemporary Aesthetics Journal

Contemporary Aesthetics Journal

VOLUME 9 (2011)

Marshall Battani, Aura, Self, and Aesthetic Experience

Mădălina Diaconu, City Walks and Tactile Experience

VOLUME 8 (2010)

Katya Mandoki, The Third Tear in Everyday Aesthetics

Mary Bittner Wiseman, Water and Stone: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Spirit Resonance of the World

Michael Ranta, Report: The XVIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics- "Diversities in Aesthetics" (Peking University, Beijing, China, 9-13 August 2010)

Ossi Naukkarinen, Why Beauty Still Cannot Be Measured

Gabriela Salazar, Another One Bites the Dust!

A SYMPOSIUM on LAURENT STERN'S INTERPRETIVE REASONING

John Gibson, Interpretation, Sincerity & "Theory"

Paul Guyer, Interpretations: Deep, Reasonable, and Free

Mary Wiseman, Laurent Stern's Interpretive Reasoning

Laurent Stern, Response to Critics

Katrina Mitcheson, Allowing the Accidental; the Interplay Between Intentionality and Realism in Photographic Art

Jessica J. Lee, Home Life: Cultivating a Domestic Aesthetic

Justin Winkler, Nightwatch*

Michael J. Kowalski, The Curatorial Muse

James Harold, The Value of Fictional Worlds (or Why 'The Lord of the Rings' is Worth Reading)

Erik Anderson, Sailing the Seas of Cheese*

Charles Ford,Musical Presence: Towards a New Philosophy of Music

Daniel Conrad, A Functional Model of the Aesthetic Response

Silvia Casini, The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from the Scientific Laboratory to an Artwork

VOLUME 7 (2010)

Arnold Berleant, Art, Terrorism and the Negative Sublime

Kalle Puolakka, Davidson on Rorty's Postmetaphysical Critique of Intentionalism

Ossi Naukkarinen, Integrative and Disintegrative Art

Pauliina Rautio, On Hanging Laundry: The Place of Beauty in Managing Everyday Life

Craig Derksen and Darren Hudson Hick, Performance Hero

John Carvalho, Thinking, the Unconscious and Film

Jonathan A. Neufeld, Musical Formalism and Political Performances

Christy Mag Uidhir, Unlimited Additions to Limited Editions

Jukka Mikkonen, Intentions and Interpretations: Philosophical Fiction as Conversation

Yves Millet, The Sensory Intention -- Art, Motif, and Motivation: A Comparative Approach

SPECIAL VOLUME 2 (2009) Aesthetics and Race: New Philosophical Perspectives

Mariana Ortega, Othering the Other: The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasure

Ronald Sundstrom, Mixed-Race Looks

Monique Roelofs, Sensation as Civilization: Reading/Riding the Taxicab

Mickaella Perina, Encountering the Other: Aesthetics, Race and Relationality

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz, The Divine Geometry of Chocolate: Artist's Essay

Robin James, In but not of, of but not in: On Taste, Hipness, and White Embodiment

Nalini Bhushan Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic

Falguni A. Sheth, The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy between Colonialism and Global Capitalism

Paul C. Taylor,The Last King of Scotland or the Last N----r on Earth? The Ethics of Race on Film

Crispin Sartwell,Red, Gold, Black, and Green: Black Nationalist Aesthetics

Namita Goswami,The Empire Sings Back: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Whimsy

VOLUME 6 (2008)

David Clowney, A Third System of the Arts? An Exploration of Some Ideas from Larry Shiner's The Invention of Art: A Cultural History

Graham McFee, The Friends of Jones' Paintings: A Case of Explanation in the Republic of Art

Peter H. Karlen, The Aesthetics Of Trademarks

Jale Erzen, The Dervishes Dance — The Sacred Ritual of Love

Eric Brook, Art Imitating Art

Frederic Will, Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past?

Ken-ichi Sasaki, A Silent Rhetoric: The Mechanism of Propaganda as Persuasion

Thomas Leddy, The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter

Maryvonne Saison, "The People Are Missing"

Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11

Dan Disney, Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato's The Republic via Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"

Jonathan Davis, Questioning "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction": A Stroll around the Louvre after Reading Benjamin¹

Grant Tavinor, Definition of Videogames

SYMPOSIUM: Danto's The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Twenty-Five Years Later

Ivan Gaskell, The Riddle of a Riddle

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Not Just Mere Things

Cynthia Freeland, Danto and Art Criticism

Arthur C. Danto, Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

VOLUME 5 (2007)

Nikolaos Gkogkas, Aesthetics and the Environment: Repatriating Humanity

Alastair Goff, Words and Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations

Riva Berleant, Paleolithic Flints: Is an Aesthetics of Stone Tools Possible?¹

Robert Frodeman, Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, and Eros

Robert Pepperell, Art, Perception and Indeterminacy

Larry Shiner, Architecture vs. Art: The Aesthetics of Art Museum Design¹

Nathalie Blanc, Cockroaches, or Worlds as Images

Kevin Melchionne, Acquired Taste

Stefán Snaevarr, Poetics and Maieutics: Literature and Tacit Knowledge of Emotions

James F. Moyer, Film and the Public Memory: The Phenomena of Nonfiction Film Fragments

Derek Whitehead, Artist's Labor

Michael Ranta, Implied World Views in Pictures: Reflections from a Cognitive Psychological and Anthropological Point of View

VOLUME 4 (2006)

Will Swanson, Beautiful Noise

Michael David Szekely, Gesture, Pulsion, Grain: Barthes' Musical Semiology

John Carvalho, Fact and Fiction: Writing the Difference Between Suicide and Death

Christopher S. Yates, A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic 'Worlds'

Mădălina Diaconu, Reflections on an Aesthetics of Touch, Smell and Taste

Stephanie Ross, Paradoxes and Puzzles: Appreciating Gardens and Urban Nature

Kalle Puolakka, Interrupting Danto's Farewell Party Arrangements: Comments for Grigoriev

Serge Grigoriev, A Reply to Puolakka

Katharine Wolfe, From Aesthetics to Politics: Rancière, Kant and Deleuze

Todd S. Mei, Commitment and Communication: The Aesthetics of Receptivity and Historicity

Ian Verstegen, A Plea for a Cognitive Iconology within Visual Culture

Yael Kaduri, Wittgenstein and Haydn on Understanding Music

Jeffrey Downard, The Color of the Sublime is White

Wayne Bowman, Musical Experience as Aesthetic: What Cost the Label?

Norman Kreitman, The Varieties of Aesthetic Disinterestedness

Catharine Abell, Realism and the Riddle of Style

SYMPOSIUM ON PICTORIAL REALISM

John Armstrong, Depiction and the Sense of Reality

Jennifer A. McMahon, The Perceptual Constraints on Pictorial Realism

Dominic McIver Lopes, The Special and General Theory of Realism: Reply to Abell, Armstrong, and McMahon

VOLUME 3 (2005)

Serge Grigoriev, Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks and Mere Real Things

Francis Raven, Are Supertasters Good Candidates for Being Humean Ideal Critics?

Aaron Smuts, Are Video Games Art?

Pauline von Bonsdorff, Agriculture, Aesthetic Appreciation and the Worlds of Nature

Sven Ove Hansson, Aesthetic Functionalism

Sinead Murphy, Avant-Garde or Pré-Jugé?

Peter Manuel, Does Sad Music Make One Sad? An Ethnographic Perspective

Jon Boone, The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines

Yuriko Saito, Response to Jon Boone's Critique

Eric C. Mullis, Carrying the Jade Tablet: A Consideration of Confucian Artistry

Tiffany Sutton, Immersive Contemplation in Video Art Environments

David E. W. Fenner, Production Theories and Artistic Value

Daniel Putman, Natural and Empty Desires: An Epicurean View of Musical Experience

Jeanne Marie Kusina, The Evolution and Revolutions of the Networked Art Aesthetic

SYMPOSIUM: THE BODY (concluded from Vol. 2)

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, Art and Embodiment: Biological and Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Beauty and the Aesthetic

Justin Winkler, The Eye and the Hand: Professional Sensitivity and the Idea of an Aesthetics of Work on the Land

Ken-ichi Sasaki, Anchorage to the World

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 'Man Has Always Danced': Forays into the Origins of an Art Largely Forgotten by Philosophers

SPECIAL VOLUME 1 (2005) - Aesthetics and Mobility

Ossi Naukkarinen, Aesthetics and Mobility - A Short Introduction into a Moving Field

Jos de Mul, From Mobile Ontologies to Mobile Aesthetics

Pentti Määttänen, Aesthetics of Movement and Everyday Aesthetics

Arto Haapala, Identity on the Road

Max Ryynänen, Learning from Venice

Pasi Kolhonen, Moving Pictures - Advertising, Traffic and Cityscape

Yrjö Sepänmaa, The Aesthetics of the Road, Road Art, and Road Traffic

Gerd-Helge Vogel, Mobility: The Fourth Dimension in the Fine Arts and Architecture

Johanna Hällsten, Movement and Participation: Journeys within Everyday Environments

VOLUME 2 (2004)

Anita Seppä, Foucault, Enlightenment and the Aesthetics of the Self

Julie C. Van Camp, Colorization Revisited

Yuriko Saito, Machines in the Ocean: The Aesthetics of Wind Farms

Yrjö Sepänmaa, How To Speak of Nature? The Exemplary Position of Mount Koli in Environmental Research

Stefán Snaevarr, The Heresy of Paraphrase Revisited

Sarah E. Worth, Narrative Understanding and Understanding Narrative

Rob van Gerwen, Ethical Autonomism: The Work of Art as a Moral Agent

SYMPOSIUM: THE BODY (continued in Vol. 3)

Eva K. W. Man, Reclaiming the Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies and Confucian Aesthetics on Bodily Expression

Marc Boucher, Kinetic Synaesthesia: Experiencing Dance in Multimedia Scenographies 

FORUM: SCIENCE IN AESTHETICS?

Wolfgang Welsch, Animal Aesthetics

Stefan Snaevarr, Talk To the Animals: A Short Comment on Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics"

VOLUME 1 (2003)

Renée van de Vall, Between Battlefield and Play: Art and Aesthetics in Visual Culture

Derek H. Whitehead, Poiesis and Art-Making: A Way of Letting-Be

Emily Brady and Arto Haapala, Melancholy as an Aesthetic Emotion

Arnold Berleant and Ronald Hepburn, An Exchange on Disinterestedness

John Dilworth, Ariadne at the Movies

Aaron Smuts, Multiple Inheritance and Film Identity: A Reply to Dilworth

John Dilworth, Ariadne Revisited

Robert Yanal, Two Monsters in Search of a Concept

Wolfgang Welsch, Reflecting the Pacific

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