Robbie Kubala
Biographic Data
| ID | 959569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robbie Kubala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robbie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kubala |
| SIGNATURE | KUBALA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9648-6572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art, Understanding, and Mystery
Apparent orthodoxy holds that artistic understanding is finally valuable. Artistic understanding—grasping, as such, the features of an artwork that make it aesthetically or artistically good or bad—is a species of understanding, which is widely taken to be finally valuable. The objection from mystery, by contrast, holds that a lack of artistic understanding is valuable. I distinguish and critically assess two versions of this objection. The first…
Non-Monotonic Theories of Aesthetic Value
Theorists of aesthetic value since Hume have traditionally aimed to justify at least some comparative judgments of aesthetic value and to explain why we thereby have more reason to appreciate some aesthetic objects than others. I argue that three recent theories of aesthetic value—Thi Nguyen’s and Matthew Strohl’s engagement theories, Nick Riggle’s communitarian theory, and Dominic McIver Lopes’ network theory—face a challenge to carry out this e…
Aesthetic Blame
One influential tradition holds that blame is a moral attitude: blame is appropriate only when the target of blame has violated a moral norm without excuse or justification. Against this, some have recently argued that agents can be blameworthy for their violation of epistemic norms even when no moral norms are thereby violated. This paper defends the appropriateness of aesthetic blame: agents can be blameworthy for their violation of aesthetic n…
Varieties of Aesthetic Response
I argue that there are at least three response-types that are capable of being responsive to the beautiful, and that these response-types are inequivalent. There can be aesthetic judgment without aesthetic appreciation, aesthetic appreciation without aesthetic judgment, and aesthetic appreciation without aesthetic understanding. On analogy with what persons call for, only rational judgment is required, even though the most excellent cases of resp…
Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters
Journal Article Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Get access Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle Oxford: oxford university press, 2022. pp. 128. £41.99 (hbk). Robbie Kubala Robbie Kubala The University of Texas at Austin, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-6572 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad013, h…
The Aesthetics of Crossword Puzzles
This paper develops an aesthetics of crossword puzzles. I present a taxonomy of crosswords in the Anglophone world and argue that there are three distinct sources of aesthetic value in crosswords. First, and in common with other puzzles, crosswords merit aesthetic experiences of our own agency: paradigmatically, the aesthetic experience of struggling for and hitting upon the right solution. In addition to instantiating the aesthetic value of puzz…
Aesthetic practices and normativity
What should we do, aesthetically speaking, and why? Any adequate theory of aesthetic normativity must distinguish reasons internal and external to aesthetic practices. This structural distinction is necessary in order to reconcile our interest in aesthetic correctness with our interest in aesthetic value. I consider three case studies—score compliance in musical performance, the look of a mowed lawn, and literary interpretation—to show that facts…
Aesthetic obligations
Are there aesthetic obligations, and what would account for their binding force if so? I first develop a general, domain-neutral notion of obligation, then critically discuss six arguments offered for and against the existence of aesthetic obligations. The most serious challenge is that all aesthetic obligations are ultimately grounded in moral norms, and I survey the prospects for this challenge alongside three non-moral views about the source o…
Grounding Aesthetic Obligations
Many writers describe a sense of requirement in aesthetic experience: some aesthetic objects seem to demand our attention. In this paper, I consider whether this experienced demand could ever constitute a genuine normative requirement, which I call an aesthetic obligation. I explicate the content, form, and satisfaction conditions of these aesthetic obligations, then argue that they would have to be grounded neither in the special weight of some …
Aesthetic practices and normativity
What should we do, aesthetically speaking, and why? Any adequate theory of aesthetic normativity must distinguish reasons internal and external to aesthetic practices. This structural distinction is necessary in order to reconcile our interest in aesthetic correctness with our interest in aesthetic value. I consider three case studies—score compliance in musical performance, the look of a mowed lawn, and literary interpretation—to show that facts…
Grounding Aesthetic Obligations
Many writers describe a sense of requirement in aesthetic experience: some aesthetic objects seem to demand our attention. In this paper, I consider whether this experienced demand could ever constitute a genuine normative requirement, which I call an aesthetic obligation. I explicate the content, form, and satisfaction conditions of these aesthetic obligations, then argue that they would have to be grounded neither in the special weight of some …
Aesthetic obligations
Are there aesthetic obligations, and what would account for their binding force if so? I first develop a general, domain-neutral notion of obligation, then critically discuss six arguments offered for and against the existence of aesthetic obligations. The most serious challenge is that all aesthetic obligations are ultimately grounded in moral norms, and I survey the prospects for this challenge alongside three non-moral views about the source o…
Grounding Aesthetic Obligations
Many writers describe a sense of requirement in aesthetic experience: some aesthetic objects seem to demand our attention. In this paper, I consider whether this experienced demand could ever constitute a genuine normative requirement, which I call an aesthetic obligation. I explicate the content, form, and satisfaction conditions of these aesthetic obligations, then argue that they would have to be grounded neither in the special weight of some …
Aesthetic practices and normativity
What should we do, aesthetically speaking, and why? Any adequate theory of aesthetic normativity must distinguish reasons internal and external to aesthetic practices. This structural distinction is necessary in order to reconcile our interest in aesthetic correctness with our interest in aesthetic value. I consider three case studies—score compliance in musical performance, the look of a mowed lawn, and literary interpretation—to show that facts…
Aesthetic obligations
Are there aesthetic obligations, and what would account for their binding force if so? I first develop a general, domain-neutral notion of obligation, then critically discuss six arguments offered for and against the existence of aesthetic obligations. The most serious challenge is that all aesthetic obligations are ultimately grounded in moral norms, and I survey the prospects for this challenge alongside three non-moral views about the source o…
Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters
Journal Article Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Get access Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle Oxford: oxford university press, 2022. pp. 128. £41.99 (hbk). Robbie Kubala Robbie Kubala The University of Texas at Austin, USA [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-6572 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad013, h…
The Aesthetics of Crossword Puzzles
This paper develops an aesthetics of crossword puzzles. I present a taxonomy of crosswords in the Anglophone world and argue that there are three distinct sources of aesthetic value in crosswords. First, and in common with other puzzles, crosswords merit aesthetic experiences of our own agency: paradigmatically, the aesthetic experience of struggling for and hitting upon the right solution. In addition to instantiating the aesthetic value of puzz…
Aesthetic Blame
One influential tradition holds that blame is a moral attitude: blame is appropriate only when the target of blame has violated a moral norm without excuse or justification. Against this, some have recently argued that agents can be blameworthy for their violation of epistemic norms even when no moral norms are thereby violated. This paper defends the appropriateness of aesthetic blame: agents can be blameworthy for their violation of aesthetic n…
Varieties of Aesthetic Response
I argue that there are at least three response-types that are capable of being responsive to the beautiful, and that these response-types are inequivalent. There can be aesthetic judgment without aesthetic appreciation, aesthetic appreciation without aesthetic judgment, and aesthetic appreciation without aesthetic understanding. On analogy with what persons call for, only rational judgment is required, even though the most excellent cases of resp…
Art, Understanding, and Mystery
Apparent orthodoxy holds that artistic understanding is finally valuable. Artistic understanding—grasping, as such, the features of an artwork that make it aesthetically or artistically good or bad—is a species of understanding, which is widely taken to be finally valuable. The objection from mystery, by contrast, holds that a lack of artistic understanding is valuable. I distinguish and critically assess two versions of this objection. The first…
Non-Monotonic Theories of Aesthetic Value
Theorists of aesthetic value since Hume have traditionally aimed to justify at least some comparative judgments of aesthetic value and to explain why we thereby have more reason to appreciate some aesthetic objects than others. I argue that three recent theories of aesthetic value—Thi Nguyen’s and Matthew Strohl’s engagement theories, Nick Riggle’s communitarian theory, and Dominic McIver Lopes’ network theory—face a challenge to carry out this e…
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