Approach to Aesthetics Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics [Paperback]

Frank Sibley (1923-1996) was one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics of the last fifty years, whose published papers are required reading for serious students of the subject.Approach to Aestheticswill be welcomed both for bringing together these well known papers, and for its inclusion of new, previously unpublished papers. This timeless body of work will continue to demand and reward the attention of scholars and students.

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

A valuable and stimulating collection that shows Sibley at his fearless best in asking and making distinctions that raise doubts about some of our most entrenched beliefs and assumptions concerning art and aesthetic. --The Review of Metaphysics

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