Guess the last year a paper on anything remotely in Aesthetics or Philosophy of Art was chosen to appear in the Philosophers’ Annual. Here are a few hints:
Philosophers’ Annual Annual Aesthetics Snub
AESTHETICS FOR BIRDS
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art for Everyone
August 19, 2014 at 10:31 am
1981? Same year Arthur Danto's book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, came out?
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Without looking I was going to say 1979.
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Wow. Does anyone know of publications of any kind that make a case or list reasons for the relative un-importance of aesthetics within analytic, Anglo-American philosophy?
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 2:27 pm
I count 63 names on the list of nominating editors: has even one of them ever published anything in aesthetics?
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 2:29 pm
^There is a link to http://www.philosophersannual.org/ in my comment, but the print on this page does not show it (at least on my computer).
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 2:51 pm
I can see it, Miles.
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Miles, most of Stacie Friend's work is in aesthetics.
LikeLike
August 19, 2014 at 4:57 pm
There are at least four people on the list with important publications in aesthetics. Still, the ongoing neglect of aesthetics here is a joke.
LikeLike
August 20, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Why not make your (our) own nominations, then? If nobody bothers to read our work except us, then there's nobody but us to do the work of calling attention to the year's best.
LikeLike
August 21, 2014 at 12:03 am
Michel, I'm working on just such a thing: what I call The AFB Fab Flock Five. More to come soon.
LikeLike
August 21, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Christy, FWIW (not much, I know!) I didn't mean to suggest that you should take on that extra work. Rather, all I had in mind was that readers should share their favourites of the year.
LikeLike