Aesthetics for Birds

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art for Everyone

February 2, 2017
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Aesthetic Naivete

What follows is a guest post by Bence Nanay. Bence is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Between Perception and Action (Oxford University Press, 2013) and editor of Perceiving the World (Oxford University Press, 2010) and he just published a book on aesthetics, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (Oxford University Press, 2016). His current project in aesthetics is about the role of mental imagery in our engagement with art, supported by a 2-million Euro ERC grant. You can follow him on twitter @BenceNanay. Aesthetic Naïveté Let’s start with some touchy-feely and somewhat embarrassing confessions about my youth.