PHILOSOPHY 123A: PHILOSOPHY OF ART

Instructor: Miles Rind

Brandeis University, fall semester, 2002

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General course materials: Materials on specific readings and topics:
Course syllabus

Daily exercises

Errata and notes concerning the on-line texts

What is Itchy and Scratchy credit?

Instructions for papers

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Outline of Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste”

Analysis of Kant’s “deductions” of the judgment of taste (Critique of Judgment, §§ 21 and 38)

Ludwig Goldscheider on El Greco (source of quotation in Isenberg)

Study questions for first mid-term examination

Collingwood‘s scheme of the levels of human experience (summary of book II of The Principles of Art)

Clive Bell, “The Aesthetic Hypothesis” (PDF file; replaces file on E-Reserve)

Two sources for Weitz on “open concepts” (PDF file)

Study questions for the second mid-term examination

IMPORTANT! (posted 11/22/02): Assignment for final paper


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Last modified November 22, 2002