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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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8/21/23
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8/22/23
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8/23/23
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8/24/23
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8/25/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures &
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Welcome
Logic: Formal
and Informal
Argument
Analysis: Argument for Vegetarianism
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 2
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8/28/23
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8/29/23
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8/30/23
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8/31/23
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9/1/23
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Last Day to Add/Drop
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 3 - Origins of Beauty
The Origins of Beauty: Beauty in
Classical and Medieval Thought
Pre-Platonic Priming
Halo Effect
The Beauty Bias: Beauty and
Perceptions of Goodness, Excellence and Competence
Beauty and Perceptions of Truth
Ted Bundy
Plato on “Beauty”
Aesthetic Ramifications of this
Metaphysical View
The Transcendentals
Two sorts of beautiful things
Contemplation
Beauty After Plato
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
Boethius b 480; died at Pavia in 524
or 525
St. Thomas Aquinas (A.D. 1225 1274)
Marsillio Ficino (1433-1499)
Girolamo Savonarola
The Spell of Plato (or the spell of
beauty?)
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 3
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9/4/23
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9/5/23
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9/6/23
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9/7/23
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9/8/23
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Note:
Sunday 9/10/23
Last Day to Apply for
graduation at the end of Fall 2023 term
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 4 - Modern Theories of Beauty
Modern Theories[1]
of Beauty –
The Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries: Taste and
the Decline of Beauty
Three Main Types of Theories of Taste:
Reasons for decline of Beauty: (Preview of coming attractions)
Francis Hutcheson (1694‑1746)
Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671‑1713)
David Hume (1711 – 1776)
Alexander Baumgarten (1714‑1762)
Edmund Burke (1728‑1797)
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Love and Beauty:
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Delight and
the Sublime
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Disinterestedness
Archibald Alison (1757-1839)
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Faculty of Taste
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Association of Ideas
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There is an
Objective Condition
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Process Functioning of the Faculty
of Taste (A Complicated Story)
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Kant’s Insights: (See Note on Kant’s
Metaphysics/Epistemology for more details.)
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Kant’s Aesthetic Theory
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Disinterestedness
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Universality
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Necessity
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Form of Purpose
Problems with Kant
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Romantic (Spooky) Metaphysics
Problems with
Schopenhauer
Cognition
Disinterestedness
Universal Subjective Judgments and
Association of Ideas
Upshot of this Association of Ideas
Theory
Disinterestedness
Summary of Modern Theories of Taste
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Dickie:
Chapter 2
Fenner
Text:
Part One Experiences (5)
Fenner
Text:
Chapter One: Aesthetics Experience (7)
Fenner
Text:
Chapter Two: The Aesthetics Attitude
(15)
Section One: Disinterest
Section Two: Recent Views
"Of
the Standard of Taste" David Hume
Dickie:
Chapter 3
Part
Two Objects and Events (31)
Fenner:
Chapter 3: The Aesthetic Object (33)
Interesting
TED Talk on Darwinian Theory of Beauty
https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty?language=en
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Week 4
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9/11/23
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9/12/23
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9/13/23
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9/14/23
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9/15/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 5: 20th and 21st Century
Theories of Beauty
The
Aesthetic Attitude in the Twentieth Century
Three Versions of the Aesthetic Attitude Theory
1. The
Aesthetic State: Psychical Distance
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Under-distancing
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Over-distancing
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Problems
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Pros
2.
Aesthetic Awareness: Disinterested Attention
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Eliseo Vivas's Conception
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Problems
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Consider Vivas's Contentions About Literature as Aesthetic
Object
#3 Aesthetic Perception: "Seeing As" (Virgil Aldrich)
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Pros
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Problems
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Dickie’s Concluding Remarks
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 5
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9/18/23
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9/19/23
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9/20/23
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9/21/23
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9/22/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 6 - Real Beauty
Real Beauty
Eddy M. Zemach
MIDWEST STUDIES IN
PHILOSOPHY, XVI (1991)
Set Up
Five Arguments In Brief
1. Argument from Aesthetic Relativism/ Subjectivism[KH1]
· By Analogy from Common Stimuli
· By Analogy from Common Reaction
· By Analogy from Other Predicates
Aesthetic Anti-realism Is Not True
2. Standard Observation Conditions
3. Proofs from Scientific Realism
Are Aesthetic Explanations Impotent?
· Response
4. Proofs from Scientific Realism 2
5. Proofs for Metaphysical Realists
Notes
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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“Real Beauty” Eddy Zemach
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Week 6
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9/25/23
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9/16/23
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9/27/23
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9/28/23
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9/29/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 7 - Mimetic Theories of Art
4 Different Theories of Art: Plus some others
1. Mimetic Theory of Art
Plato on Mimetic Art
Aristotle’s Critical Responses
Organic Unity
Catharsis
Consequences for Dance
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Fenner
Text:
Chapter 4: Defining “Art” (37)
Section One: Why define art? (37)
Section Two: Imitation and
Representation- The Ancient Greek View (41)
Dickie Text: Chapter 5
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Week 7
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10/2/23
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10/3/23
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10/4/23
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10/5/23
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10/6/23
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Assignments Due
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Exam 1
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 7 - Mimetic Theories of Art
4 Different Theories of Art: Plus some others
1. Mimetic Theory of Art
Plato on Mimetic Art
Aristotle’s Critical Responses
Organic Unity
Catharsis
Consequences for Dance
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 8
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10/9/23
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10/10/23
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10/11/23
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10/12/23
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10/13/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures &
Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 8 - Theories of PHI3800 Visual Representation
My notes from Nelson Goodman’s (1906 – 1998) Languages
of Art
Denotation
Theories of Pictorial Representation
1. The Most Naive (Resemblance)
2. Representation as Imitation/ Realism
Ernst Gombrich: “no innocent eye”
Possible Objection to Radical Relativism of Realism
(Realistic Depiction) : Perspective
Possible Objection to Radical Relativism of Realism
(Realistic Depiction) : Perspective
Problems: Weird as an Account of What is
Going on in (Realistic) Pictorial Depiction:
1. Consider Required Restrictive Conditions of Observation:
2. Consider The Abnormality of the Required Conditions
3. Consider The Effect of Previous Experience
4. Consider the Infrequency of Such Contrived Viewing
Conclusion: Pictures
in perspective, like any others, have to be read
Possible Objections to GBP:
· Photos
· Sculpture
· Fictions
The Repercussions of this for Art Appreciation and
Criticism:
Goodman’s Nominalism
Possible Remaining Answer #1:
Possible Remaining Answer #2:
Conclusion
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 9
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10/16/23
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10/17/23
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10/18/23
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10/19/23
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10/20/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures &
Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 9 – Formalism
Theories
of Art: Formalism
Formalism
Clive Bell and Aesthetic Emotion
Controversial Points
Understanding and Appreciating Music
Abstract Art and the Value of Form
Four Puzzling Facts About “Significant
Form” (whatever it is)
Thus, Some Objections
Formalism Sum Up
Several Final Objections to this View
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Fenner
Text: Chapter 4:
Section
Five: Formalism (60)
Dickie
Text : Chapter 6
Clement
Greenberg : “Modernist Painting”
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/wittgenstein/files/2007/10/Greenbergmodpaint.pdf
Yvonne
Rainer: Minimalist Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aggv4jybdaY
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Week 10
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10/23/23
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10/24/23
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10/25/23
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10/26/23
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10/27/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 10 - Media Formalism
Theories of Art: Media Formalism
“Modernist Painting”
Similar to Formalism (Proper)
Differs from Formalism (Proper)
Four Central Propositions
Pros
Problems with Media Formalism
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Dickie
Text: Chapter 8
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Week 11
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10/30/23
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10/31/23
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11/1/23
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11/2/23
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11/3/23
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Last Day to Drop with a
DR Grade
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Assignments Due
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Paper 1a
(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 11 - Expressive Theory- Tolstoy
What is Art?
Three Definitions of Art
Art and Speech
Tolstoy’s Definition
Genuine Art and Counterfeit
Art
"The Feeling”
Evaluating Art: Force of the
Feeling
Evaluating Art: Subject
Matter
Religious Perception
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Fenner
Text:
Section
Four: Expressionism (52)
What
Is Art? Excerpts (Tolstoy)
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Week 12
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11/6/23
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11/7/23
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11/8/23
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11/9/23
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11/10/23
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Assignments Due
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Peer Review of Paper 1
(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 12 - Hegel's Romantic Theory of Art and
Rejection of Dance
Romantic Theory of Art
The “Fine” Arts
Romantic versus Enlightenment Thinking
Icons of Romantic Art
Classic (Iconic) Works of Romantic Art
Georg Hegel (1770 – 1831)
Kant’s Critique of the Limits of Pure Reason
Hegel’s Response to Kant (Hegel and The “Knowable”)
Hegel and Reality
Art, Religion, and Philosophy
Hegel's System of the Art
Art Three Stages
· Symbolic Art
· Classical Art
· Romantic Art
The End of Art
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Fenner
Text: Chapter 4:
Section
Three: Romanticism (47)
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Week 13
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11/13/23
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11/14/23
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11/15/23
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11/16/23
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11/17/23
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Assignments Due
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Paper 1b
(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 13 - Expressive Theory- Collingwood
Collingwood Differs with
Tolstoy in Three Major Ways
Jenefer Robinson[1] on Collingwood
(At least) 3 ways of Expressing in Art
Three Problems with Collingwood Account of Expressive Theory
Paradox of Fiction: An Inconsistent Triad
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 14
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11/20/23
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11/21/23
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11/22/23
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11/23/23
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11/24/23
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Thanksgiving University
Closed
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800
Lecture 14 - Institutional Theories of Art
“The Artworld” Arthur Danto
Key Insight
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe
Danto’s Answer to the Conundrum
Imitation Theory and Reality Theory
The “is” of Artistic Identification
In Sum
Conclusion
Part IV Style Matrix For Art
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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"The
End of Art" Arthur Danto
“The
Role of Theory in Aesthetics” Wietz
“After
the End of Art”
Chapter
5: Creations and Recreations (75)
Part
III Meaning (83)
Fenner
Text:
Chapter
6: Interpreting Art (85)
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Week 15
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11/27/23
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11/28/23
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11/29/23
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11/30/23
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12/1/23
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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PHI3800 Lecture 15 - Postmodernism and The Re-enchantment of Art
Modernism, Postmodernism
and Post-postmodernism
Modernism in Art and Culture
Other Features of Modernism
Postmodernism
The Re-enchantment of Art Suzi Gablik (Selections)
Re-enchantment of the World.
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Fenner Text: Chapter 4:
Section Six: Antiessentialism
(65)
Section Seven: The Artworld (69)Fenner Text:
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Week 16
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12/4/23
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12/5/23
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12/6/23
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12/7/23
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12/8/23
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Final Exam Week
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Assignments Due
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Lectures & Notes
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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Week 17
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12/11/23
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12/12/23
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12/13/23
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12/14/23
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12/15/23
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Final
Grades Due
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Complete
grade report available to students by web
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Lectures & Notes
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Video Lectures
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Readings
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