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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception Bence Nanay 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©BenceNanay2016 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2016 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015944485 ISBN 978–0–19–965844–2 PrintedinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi Dedicato alla cara, lieta, familiare memoria di Richard Wollheim OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi Contents Acknowledgments ix ListofFigures xi 1. Aesthetics 1 2. DistributedAttention 12 3. Pictures 36 4. AestheticallyRelevantProperties 65 5. Semi-Formalism 91 6. Uniqueness 117 7. TheHistoryofVision 136 8. Non-DistributedAttention 160 References 183 Index 207 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,27/11/2015,SPi Acknowledgments This book is about how thinking about perception can help us tackle variousproblemsthathavetodowithaesthetics.Itdoesnotpresuppose anyfamiliarity withphilosophy of perception (sothat aestheticians can read it) and it doesn’t presuppose any familiarity with aesthetics either (sothatphilosophersofperceptioncanalsoreadit).Butthismeansthat itdoesnotpresupposemuch.Sothenthehopeisthatitisaccessibleto prettymuchanyone. Ihavebeenworkingonthismaterialformorethantwodecades,soit wouldbeimpossibletoacknowledgeeveryonewhohelpedmethrough- out the process by talking about these issues or even by giving written commentsonsomeearlierversionofsomeofthechapters.SoIwon’ttry to list them, because I would no doubt forget some people. But I hope Icanrememberthosewhogavemefeedbackontheentirebook:Casey O’Callaghan,Craig French, Dan Cavedon-Taylor, MaartenSteenhagen, JacobBerger,WillDavies,SamRose,RobbieKubala,KrisGoffin,Margot Strohminger, and an anonymous referee for Oxford University Press. Iamextremelygratefulfortheircomments. I presented material from the book at various venues: University of Oxford, University of Tubingen, University of Kent, University of East Anglia,UniversityofAarhus,theSwissCenterfortheAffectiveSciences, UniversityofParis,UniversityofVienna,TilburgUniversity,University of Leuven, University of London, Columbia University, University of Cincinnati, University of British Columbia, University of Manchester, UniversityofYork,UniversityofHertfordshire,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley,andatvariousmeetingsoftheAmericanSocietyofAesthetics, theBritishSocietyofAesthetics,andtheAmericanPhilosophicalAsso- ciation.IalsogavegraduateseminarsonthetopicofthebookatSyracuse University,atthe UniversityofBritish Columbia,andatthe University of Antwerp. I am very grateful for all the questions and comments at thesevenues. I am also very grateful to the editors at Oxford University Press, especiallyPeterMomtchiloff,EleanorCollins,andPhilDinesformaking thewholeprocessassmoothaspossible.SomematerialfromChapter2
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