Are aesthetic judgements simply expressions of personal preference? If two people disagree about the beauty of a painting are both judgements valid or can someone be mistaken about the aesthetic value of an artwork? This volume brings together some of the leading philosophers of art and language to debate the status of aesthetic judgements.

• Introduction


• 1: Louise McNally and Isidora Stojanovic: Aesthetic Adjectives


• 2: Dan López de Sa: Making Beautiful Truths


• 3: Dominic McIver Lopes: Disputing Taste


• 4: Tim Sundell: Aesthetic Negotiation


• 5: David Davies: The Semantics of Sibleyan Aesthetic Judgements


• 6: Berit Brogaard: A Framework for Aesthetic Expressions


• 7: Elisabeth Schellekens: Value Judgements and Standards of Normative Assessment


• 8: Michael J. Raven: Against the Semantic Orientation towards Aesthetic Judgements


• 9: Carl Matheson: We Really Shouldn't Be Having this Conversation: Rational Disengagement in Science and in Art

James O. Young, FRSC, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He works on both philosophy of language and philosophy of art and is the author of Global Anti-realism (1995), Art and Knowledge (2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (2008), Critique of Pure Music (2014) and over 50 articles in refereed journals. His most recent book is a translation of Charles Batteux's The Fine Art Reduced to a Single Principle (2015).