This paper aims at naturalizing the aesthetic experience on the basis of cognitive sciences. In traditional philosophical aesthetics, the aesthetic experience requires a specific attitude and a characteristic work of imagination. Today, cognitive sciences offer a rich set of empirically corroborated concepts useful in explaining these notions in naturalistic terms. This paper extends these concepts to explain how the aesthetic experience is integrated and how it affords knowledge.
Key Words
aesthetic attitude, fiction, imagination, knowledge, modularity,
Gianluca Consoli
http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=657
