Approach to Aesthetics Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics [Hardcover]

A complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics, this volume includes five, remarkable, hitherto unpublished papers written in Sibley's later years. It addresses many topics, among them the nature of aesthetic qualities versus non-aesthetic qualities, the relation of aesthetic description to aesthetic evaluation, the different levels of evaluation, and the objectivity of aesthetic judgement. The later papers constitute both a significant development of Sibley's individual approach to aesthetics, such as his discussion of the distinction between attributive and predicative uses of adjectives and of the aesthetic significance of tastes and smells, a topic Sibley considered to be much neglected.

Editors' Introduction
1. Aesthetic Concepts
2. Aesthetics and the Looks of Things
3. Aesthetic and Non-aesthetic
4. About Taste
5. Colours
6. Objectivity and Aesthetics
7. Particularity, Art and Evaluation
8. General Criteria and Reasons in Aesthetics
9. Originality and Value
10. Arts or the Aesthetic - which comes first?
11. Making Music Our Own
12. Adjectives, Predicative and Attributive
13. Aesthetic Judgements: Pebbles, Faces and Fields of Litter
14. Some Notes on Ugliness
15. Tastes, Smells and Aesthetics
16. Why theMona LisaMay Not Be a Painting

Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was the first Professor of Philosophy to be appointed at Lancaster University, a position he occupied until his retirement.