An other deduction of aesthetics judgments Going over the former dichotomy between facts and values Starting point of the paper is a reconsideration of Putnam’s influential essay, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy, from the point of view of Aesthetics. The first move is an analysis of the aesthetic properties, and of related judgments as a paradigmatic case of overcoming the old dichotomy. The thesis is that aesthetic judgments are cognitive in a non-conceptual way and normative without presupposing definite norms. Unifying in a single term levels of (negative) descriptivity with levels of (positive) evaluation, aesthetic judgments undermine irreversibly the solidarity of physicalism and emotionalism. The paper pursues therefore the objective of a deduction in the Kantian sense of aesthetic judgments, connecting, however, two levels of the analysis that Kant keeps strategically distinct, i.e. the level of empirical (physiological) exposition of aesthetic judgments and that one of their (transcendental) deduction. The theoretical core of the deduction is the idea of an underlying “aesthetic mechanism” as the natural basis for the epigenesis of aesthetic.

UNE AUTRE DÉDUCTION DES JUGEMENTS ESTHÉTIQUES. Pour un dépassement de l’ancienne dichotomie des faits et des valeurs / Fabrizio Desideri. - In: NOUVELLE REVUE D'ESTHÉTIQUE. - ISSN 1969-2269. - ELETTRONICO. - 18:(2016), pp. 11-27. [10.3917/nre.018.0011]

UNE AUTRE DÉDUCTION DES JUGEMENTS ESTHÉTIQUES. Pour un dépassement de l’ancienne dichotomie des faits et des valeurs

DESIDERI, FABRIZIO
2016

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An other deduction of aesthetics judgments Going over the former dichotomy between facts and values Starting point of the paper is a reconsideration of Putnam’s influential essay, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy, from the point of view of Aesthetics. The first move is an analysis of the aesthetic properties, and of related judgments as a paradigmatic case of overcoming the old dichotomy. The thesis is that aesthetic judgments are cognitive in a non-conceptual way and normative without presupposing definite norms. Unifying in a single term levels of (negative) descriptivity with levels of (positive) evaluation, aesthetic judgments undermine irreversibly the solidarity of physicalism and emotionalism. The paper pursues therefore the objective of a deduction in the Kantian sense of aesthetic judgments, connecting, however, two levels of the analysis that Kant keeps strategically distinct, i.e. the level of empirical (physiological) exposition of aesthetic judgments and that one of their (transcendental) deduction. The theoretical core of the deduction is the idea of an underlying “aesthetic mechanism” as the natural basis for the epigenesis of aesthetic.
2016
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Fabrizio Desideri
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