Dominic Mciver Lopes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 319574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dominic Mciver Lopes |
| PRENOMES | Dominic Mciver |
| SOBRENOME | Lopes |
| ASSINATURA | LOPES D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7599-974X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Identity, Culture, and Value
Courageous Love
In the 1930s, the Bengali philosopher K. C. Bhattacharyya proposed a new theory of rasa , or aesthetic emotion, according to which aesthetic emotions are feelings that have other feelings as their intentional objects. This paper articulates how Bhattacharyya's theory offers a novel solution to the puzzle of how it is both possible and rational to enjoy the kind of negative emotions that are inspired by tragic and sorrowful tales. The new solution…
Introduction
Aesthetic Injustice
There are many aesthetic cultures, and groups with different aesthetic cultures can come in contact with one another, sometimes resulting in conflict. An aesthetic injustice is a failure of policies in large-scale social arrangements to manage the contact well and avoid conflict. This book articulates and defends the cosmopolitan theory of aesthetic injustice: a large-scale social arrangement is aesthetically unjust when and only when it harms pe…
Perception in Practice
Bolzano on aesthetic normativity
A theory of aesthetic normativity states what makes it the case that the fact that an item is beautiful is reason to appreciate it. Aesthetic hedonists characteristically hold that the fact that an item is beautiful is reason to appreciate it because anyone always has reason to do what yields pleasure. Bernard Bolzano was an aesthetic hedonist who is best interpreted as offering a mixed theory of aesthetic normativity.The fact that an item is bea…
How to think about how to think about aesthetic value
Several art scholars have recently doubted the prudence of thinking about the nature of aesthetic value. The problem is that traditional thinking about aesthetic value fails to capture the specificities with which empirical art scholars must grapple. This paper diagnoses how the tradition came to think in this problematic way about aesthetic value. It then sketches an approach to aesthetic value that boosts the refractive power of the tools that …
Normativity, Agency, and Value
Précis of Being for Beauty
A Layered, Bounded, Integrated Approach to Research on the Arts across Disciplines
Cooperation among arts scholars is thought to be hampered by the division of research on the arts into two cultures, one scientific, one humanistic. This article proposes an alternative model for arts research, wherein multiple levels of explanation focused on well-bounded phenomena integrate research across academic disciplines. Two case studies of research that fit the model are presented
Spontaneity and Materiality
Images are double agents. They receive information from the world, while also projecting visual imagination onto the world. As a result, mind and world tug our thinking about images, or particular kinds of images, in contrary directions. On one common division, world traces itself mechanically in photographs, whereas mind expresses itself through painting.1 Scholars of photography disavow such crude distinctions: much recent writing attends in de…
Feeling for Freedom
Aesthetic hedonists agree that an aesthetic value is a property of an item that stands in some constitutive relation to pleasure. Surprisingly, however, aesthetic hedonists need not reduce aesthetic normativity to hedonic normativity. They might demarcate aesthetic value as a species of hedonic value, but deny that the reason we have to appreciate an item is simply that it pleases. Such is the approach taken by an important strand of South Asian …
Infrastructures of Aesthetic Agency
The main argument for the network theory of aesthetic value is that it better explains the facts about aesthetic activity than does its rival, aesthetic hedonism. According to the network theory, an aesthetic value figures in a fact that lends weight to the proposition that it would be an aesthetic achievement for an agent to act. An aesthetic achievement is an act that succeeds out of aesthetic competence, so an agent has aesthetic reason to act…
Being for Beauty
One question that leads us into aesthetics is: why does beauty matter? Or, what do aesthetic goods bring to my life, to make it a life that goes well? Or, how does beauty deserve the place we have evidently made for it in our lives? A theory of aesthetic value states what beauty is so as to equip us to answer this question. According to aesthetic hedonism, aesthetic values are properties of items that stand in constitutive relation to pleasure. C…
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art
As your pupils adjust to the darkness of the gallery, you see a woman whom you might recognize as the artist Sonia Cillari. She stands in front of a room-sized black box to which she appears to be tethered by electric cables that terminate in electrodes wrapped around her limbs and torso. Venturing into the black box you find a naked woman, and your movements around her are echoed in the sound of something like the busy chirps of insects over a s…
Afterword
The Myth of (Non-Aesthetic) Artistic Value
Art works realize many values. According to tradition, not all of these values are characteristic of art: art works characteristically bear aesthetic value. Breaking with tradition, some now say that art works bear artistic value, as distinct from aesthetic value. I argue that there is no characteristic artistic value distinct from aesthetic value. The argument for this thesis suggests a new way to think about aesthetic value as it is characteris…
Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression
Everybody assumes (1) that musical performances are sonic events and (2) that their expressive properties are sonic properties. This paper discusses recent findings in the psychology of music perception that show that visual information combines with auditory information in the perception of musical expression. The findings show at the very least that arguments are needed for (1) and (2). If music expresses what we think it does, then its express…
Knowing Art
The Aesthetic Function of Art
Knowing Art
Knowing Art
Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They obviously afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. Knowing Art collects ten original essays written by leading philosophers who distill and build upon recent work at the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology. Specific topics addressed include the objectivity of critical knowledge, the quality …
Mindsight
Book Review| October 01 2006 Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning Colin McGinn. Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. x + 209 pp. Dominic McIver Lopes Dominic McIver Lopes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 543–545. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-019 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
History of aesthetics. Plato / Christopher Janaway -- Aristotle / Nickolas Pappas -- Medieval aesthetics / Joseph Margolis -- Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume / James Shelley -- Kant / Donald W. Crawford -- Hegel / Michael Inwood -- Idealism: Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling / Dale Jacquette -- Nietzsche / Ruben Berrios and Aaron Ridley -- Formalism / Noel Carroll -- Pragmatism: Dewey / Richard Shusterman -- Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood …
Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
Being for Beauty
One question that leads us into aesthetics is: why does beauty matter? Or, what do aesthetic goods bring to my life, to make it a life that goes well? Or, how does beauty deserve the place we have evidently made for it in our lives? A theory of aesthetic value states what beauty is so as to equip us to answer this question. According to aesthetic hedonism, aesthetic values are properties of items that stand in constitutive relation to pleasure. C…
The Myth of (Non-Aesthetic) Artistic Value
Art works realize many values. According to tradition, not all of these values are characteristic of art: art works characteristically bear aesthetic value. Breaking with tradition, some now say that art works bear artistic value, as distinct from aesthetic value. I argue that there is no characteristic artistic value distinct from aesthetic value. The argument for this thesis suggests a new way to think about aesthetic value as it is characteris…
Art Media and the Sense Modalities
It is widely assumed that the art media can be individuated with reference to the sense modalities. Different art media are perceived by means of different sense modalities, and this tells us what properties of each medium are aesthetically relevant. The case of pictures appears to fit this principle well, for pictures are deemed purely and paradigmatically visual representations. However, recent psychological studies show that congenitally and e…
What Is It Like to See with Your Ears? The Representational Theory of Mind
Representational theories of mind cannot individuate the sense modalities in a principled manner. According to representationalism, the phenomenal character of experiences is determined by their contents. The usual objection is that inverted qualia are possible, so the phenomenal character of experiences may vary independently of their contents. But the objection is inconclusive. It raises difficult questions about the metaphysics of secondary qu…
Feeling for Freedom
Aesthetic hedonists agree that an aesthetic value is a property of an item that stands in some constitutive relation to pleasure. Surprisingly, however, aesthetic hedonists need not reduce aesthetic normativity to hedonic normativity. They might demarcate aesthetic value as a species of hedonic value, but deny that the reason we have to appreciate an item is simply that it pleases. Such is the approach taken by an important strand of South Asian …
Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression
Everybody assumes (1) that musical performances are sonic events and (2) that their expressive properties are sonic properties. This paper discusses recent findings in the psychology of music perception that show that visual information combines with auditory information in the perception of musical expression. The findings show at the very least that arguments are needed for (1) and (2). If music expresses what we think it does, then its express…
Vision, Touch, and the Value of Pictures
Since blind people can draw and interpret raised‐line drawings, depiction is not an essentially visual medium. Neither is the art of pictures an essentially visual art form. The reasons given for evaluating a picture aesthetically may advert to its tactile qualities insteadof its visual qualities.In particular, a raised‐line picture canbe valued for the tactile experience it elicits of the scene it depicts, just as a visual picture is sometimes v…
Normativity, Agency, and Value
The Aesthetic Function of Art
Pictures, Styles and Purposes
Journal Article PICTURES, STYLES AND PURPOSES Get access Dominic Lopes Dominic Lopes 1165 E. 52nd Street #1, Chicago, Illinois 60615, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 32, Issue 4, October 1992, Pages 330–341, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/32.4.330 Published: 01 October 1992
Art Media and the Sense Modalities
It is widely assumed that the art media can be individuated with reference to the sense modalities. Different art media are perceived by means of different sense modalities, and this tells us what properties of each medium are aesthetically relevant. The case of pictures appears to fit this principle well, for pictures are deemed purely and paradigmatically visual representations. However, recent psychological studies show that congenitally and e…
A Philosophy of Mass Art
A Philosophy of Mass Art
What Is It Like to See with Your Ears? The Representational Theory of Mind
Representational theories of mind cannot individuate the sense modalities in a principled manner. According to representationalism, the phenomenal character of experiences is determined by their contents. The usual objection is that inverted qualia are possible, so the phenomenal character of experiences may vary independently of their contents. But the objection is inconclusive. It raises difficult questions about the metaphysics of secondary qu…
Vision, Touch, and the Value of Pictures
Since blind people can draw and interpret raised‐line drawings, depiction is not an essentially visual medium. Neither is the art of pictures an essentially visual art form. The reasons given for evaluating a picture aesthetically may advert to its tactile qualities insteadof its visual qualities.In particular, a raised‐line picture canbe valued for the tactile experience it elicits of the scene it depicts, just as a visual picture is sometimes v…
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
History of aesthetics. Plato / Christopher Janaway -- Aristotle / Nickolas Pappas -- Medieval aesthetics / Joseph Margolis -- Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume / James Shelley -- Kant / Donald W. Crawford -- Hegel / Michael Inwood -- Idealism: Schopenhauer, Schiller and Schelling / Dale Jacquette -- Nietzsche / Ruben Berrios and Aaron Ridley -- Formalism / Noel Carroll -- Pragmatism: Dewey / Richard Shusterman -- Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood …
Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
Knowing Art
Knowing Art
Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. They obviously afford knowledge of art itself, and they also afford general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology and value. Knowing Art collects ten original essays written by leading philosophers who distill and build upon recent work at the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology. Specific topics addressed include the objectivity of critical knowledge, the quality …
Mindsight
Book Review| October 01 2006 Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning Colin McGinn. Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. x + 209 pp. Dominic McIver Lopes Dominic McIver Lopes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 543–545. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-019 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
Knowing Art
The Aesthetic Function of Art
Hearing and Seeing Musical Expression
Everybody assumes (1) that musical performances are sonic events and (2) that their expressive properties are sonic properties. This paper discusses recent findings in the psychology of music perception that show that visual information combines with auditory information in the perception of musical expression. The findings show at the very least that arguments are needed for (1) and (2). If music expresses what we think it does, then its express…
The Myth of (Non-Aesthetic) Artistic Value
Art works realize many values. According to tradition, not all of these values are characteristic of art: art works characteristically bear aesthetic value. Breaking with tradition, some now say that art works bear artistic value, as distinct from aesthetic value. I argue that there is no characteristic artistic value distinct from aesthetic value. The argument for this thesis suggests a new way to think about aesthetic value as it is characteris…
Afterword
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art
As your pupils adjust to the darkness of the gallery, you see a woman whom you might recognize as the artist Sonia Cillari. She stands in front of a room-sized black box to which she appears to be tethered by electric cables that terminate in electrodes wrapped around her limbs and torso. Venturing into the black box you find a naked woman, and your movements around her are echoed in the sound of something like the busy chirps of insects over a s…
Infrastructures of Aesthetic Agency
The main argument for the network theory of aesthetic value is that it better explains the facts about aesthetic activity than does its rival, aesthetic hedonism. According to the network theory, an aesthetic value figures in a fact that lends weight to the proposition that it would be an aesthetic achievement for an agent to act. An aesthetic achievement is an act that succeeds out of aesthetic competence, so an agent has aesthetic reason to act…
Being for Beauty
One question that leads us into aesthetics is: why does beauty matter? Or, what do aesthetic goods bring to my life, to make it a life that goes well? Or, how does beauty deserve the place we have evidently made for it in our lives? A theory of aesthetic value states what beauty is so as to equip us to answer this question. According to aesthetic hedonism, aesthetic values are properties of items that stand in constitutive relation to pleasure. C…
Spontaneity and Materiality
Images are double agents. They receive information from the world, while also projecting visual imagination onto the world. As a result, mind and world tug our thinking about images, or particular kinds of images, in contrary directions. On one common division, world traces itself mechanically in photographs, whereas mind expresses itself through painting.1 Scholars of photography disavow such crude distinctions: much recent writing attends in de…
Feeling for Freedom
Aesthetic hedonists agree that an aesthetic value is a property of an item that stands in some constitutive relation to pleasure. Surprisingly, however, aesthetic hedonists need not reduce aesthetic normativity to hedonic normativity. They might demarcate aesthetic value as a species of hedonic value, but deny that the reason we have to appreciate an item is simply that it pleases. Such is the approach taken by an important strand of South Asian …
A Layered, Bounded, Integrated Approach to Research on the Arts across Disciplines
Cooperation among arts scholars is thought to be hampered by the division of research on the arts into two cultures, one scientific, one humanistic. This article proposes an alternative model for arts research, wherein multiple levels of explanation focused on well-bounded phenomena integrate research across academic disciplines. Two case studies of research that fit the model are presented
Normativity, Agency, and Value
Précis of Being for Beauty
How to think about how to think about aesthetic value
Several art scholars have recently doubted the prudence of thinking about the nature of aesthetic value. The problem is that traditional thinking about aesthetic value fails to capture the specificities with which empirical art scholars must grapple. This paper diagnoses how the tradition came to think in this problematic way about aesthetic value. It then sketches an approach to aesthetic value that boosts the refractive power of the tools that …
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