CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Kauderer, Andreas |
|---|---|
| Title | Two Requirements for a Theory of Cognitivism in Art: Reconciling the Tension |
| Summary | If art has cognitive value, we expect a theory to be able to capture this value with some specificity, and in acceptable terms. Such a theory also needs to show why art is the only effective source for reaching the cognitive value. These are the requirements put forth by the anti-cognitivists. The cognitivists fail to reconcile the tension between them. They argue for a clearlyexpressible cognitive gain but justify it through its validity in other sources, like science. This precludes art from being the only effective source of this cognitive gain. Theart becomes superfluous. I argue for a theory beginning with this second requirement. The aesthetic point of view is unique to art –the perspective in which we are disinterestedin utility, pleasure, or other points of view which concern ournormal life. This pointof view allows artworks to invokecognitive entities in us –concepts, percepts, and affects. Art has us contend with them as objects of interest, rather than as tools for navigating life. Artcompels us to deal with these cognitive objects’ boundaries, extent, and relationships.This satisfies the first requirement, without losing ground on the second. |
| Supervisor | Weberman, David Sanford |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/kauderer_andreas.pdf |
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