Aesthetic judge-dependence and expertise. Issue 6 (17th August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kölbel, Max
• Is Part Of: Inquiry. Volume 59:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 589
• Page End: 617
• Publication Date: 2016-08-17
• Subjects: Aesthetic concepts -- personal taste -- judge-dependence -- response-dependence -- aesthetic expertise -- aesthetic testimony -- objectivity -- Kant -- Hume -- Mothersill; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social Sciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Philosophie -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Philosophie -- Périodiques; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208917
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-174X

Abstract

Abstract: This paper expounds and defends a judge-dependence account of aesthetic concepts, where aesthetic concepts are construed widely, to include for example both concepts of personal taste and more narrowly aesthetic concepts. According to such an account, it can depend on personal features of a judge whether it is correct for that judge to apply an aesthetic concept to a given object. After introducing and motivating the account, the article sets out to explain how some aesthetic questions can seem more objective than others, or how there seem to be experts on some aesthetic questions, despite the judge-dependence of aesthetic concepts.