Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience ¿ Introduction

Andrej Démuth

ISBN 10: 3631718330 / ISBN 13: 9783631718339

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2017, 2017

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Neuware -This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgements and in perceptions of beauty, and whether it is possible to meaningfully develop cognitive aesthetics as a unified science (the unification of philosophical and cognitive approaches) using an epistemic background of beauty and art. The book offers various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience. They regard a conceptual and semantic analysis of the concept of beauty and focuse on the differences in the evaluation of physical beauty between the sexes from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. The problem of the facial attractiveness and the aesthetic experience from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience is also object of their investigation. The contributors elaborate on beauty in music and emotionality, the problem of the beauty in mathematics and the mathematics of beauty, and consider the vision of how cognitive science affects art theory. 172 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience ¿ Introduction
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631718330
• ISBN 13: 9783631718339
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 14D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 481 grams

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Synopsis

This book is centred around the examination of whether it is possible to find cognitive aspects or purposes in aesthetic judgements and in perceptions of beauty, and whether it is possible to meaningfully develop cognitive aesthetics as a unified science (the unification of philosophical and cognitive approaches) using an epistemic background of beauty and art. The book offers various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience. They regard a conceptual and semantic analysis of the concept of beauty and focuse on the differences in the evaluation of physical beauty between the sexes from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. The problem of the facial attractiveness and the aesthetic experience from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience is also object of their investigation. The contributors elaborate on beauty in music and emotionality, the problem of the beauty in mathematics and the mathematics of beauty, and consider the vision of how cognitive science affects art theory.

About the Author

Andrej Démuth studied philosophy and psychology. He is a Professor of philosophy and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Trnava University. He is the author of many books and articles on cognition and the relationship between reflected and non reflected knowledge and he regularly gives invited lectures at universities in Slovakia and abroad. His research focuses on modern philosophy, epistemology and cognitive studies.