Art and Aesthetics

 Aesthetic Attitude and Aesthetic Experience  The Ontology of Art: on what kind of a thing is a work of art  Theories of Art: Resemblance, Representation, Expression and Form  Aesthetic Judgement: Perception and Imagination; The Sublime and the Beautiful  Emotional Response to Fiction  Criticism and Interpretation: on whethr critical-interpretative cannons are fixed or open-ended  Art, Tradition and Modernity  Art, Morality and Politics: Art as Ideology  Metaphor, Narrative and Fictionality  Philosophy and Literature: on Literature as Cognitive Thought-Experiment about Human Possibility