Does Artistic Value Pose a Special Problem for Time Travel Theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9467459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James W Mcallister (Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-69 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayz041 |
| OpenAlex | W2985159983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Michael Dummett and Storrs McCall have claimed that time travel scenarios in which an artist copies an artwork from a reproduction of it that has been sent from the future introduce a causal loop of a new kind: one involving artistic value. They have suggested that this poses a hitherto unacknowledged challenge to time travel theories. I argue that their conclusion depends on some unstated essentialist assumptions about metaphysics of art and the status of representations. By relaxing these assumptions, I show that Dummett and McCall’s scenarios contain no causal loop involving artistic value, and thus pose no new problem for time travel theories
Aesthetics · Causal loop diagram · Combinatorics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Loop (graph theory · Metaphysics · Reproduction · Sociology · Time travel · Value (mathematics · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Art History and Market Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |