TY - BOOK ID - 127318239 TI - Naturalized aesthetics : a scientific framework for the philosophy of art PY - 2022 SN - 1003007023 9781003007029 9780367440046 0367440040 PB - Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, DB - UniCat KW - Naturalism KW - Aesthetics KW - Evolutionary psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127318239 AB - This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience and those enduring normative issues best addressed by philosophy. The sciences have helped us understand how art functions, our art preferences, and the neurological systems underlying our engagement with art. But we continue to rely on philosophy to tell us what is truly good in art, how we should engage with art, and the conceptual basis for this engagement. Naturalized Aesthetics: A Scientific Framework for the Philosophy of Art integrates a systematic and comprehensive naturalism, grounded in the sciences, with an "ecology" of art. It shows how the environments in which we make and experience art – our "engineered art niches" – affect the practice and experience of art and generate normativity – the goods and the shoulds – in our engagement with art. There are, in effect, two "streams" of normativity, according to this book: a niche-dependent, social, impersonal and objective stream and a niche-independent, individual, personal and subjective stream. Recognition of these two streams allows us to make progress in long-standing and unresolved philosophical disputes about how to interpret, evaluate and conceive art. ER -