Aesthetic Supervenience versus Aesthetic Grounding

• Authors: Jiri Benovsky
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended. In this article, I aim to demonstrate that even if it is sometimes true that a supervenience relation holds between aesthetic properties and ‘subvenient’ non-aesthetic ones, it is not the interesting relation in the neighbourhood. As we shall see, a richer, asymmetric, and irreflexive relation is required, and I shall defend the claim that the increasingly popular relation of grounding does amuch better job than supervenience.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETIC SUPERVENIENCE; SUPERVENIENCE; AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; WORK OF ART; PHILOSOPHY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 166-179

Contributors

author

Jiri Benovsky

• University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland