Programme

  • Speaker: Nick Riggle
  • Commentator: Irene Martínez Marín

Abstract
The familiar peculiarities of aesthetic communication—especially acquaintance, testimony, and disagreement—strongly suggest that some form of expressivism is true. I argue that a new hybrid theory of aesthetic communication is superior to expressivism. On this view the illocutionary force of aesthetic claims is a hybrid of a report and an invitation to appreciate. I present the view and show how it handles acquaintance, testimony, and disagreement, while noting contrasts with some more promising forms of expressivism.

Organisers


The Department of Philosophy, Section of Aesthetics, through

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