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Ideas of Stephen Davies, by Text

[New Zealand, fl. 2016, Professor at the University of Auckland.]

2016 The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed)
1.2 p.6 20384 The idea that art forms are linked into a single concept began in the 1740s
1.2 p.7 20387 Aesthetic experience involves perception, but also imagination and understanding
1.2 p.7 20385 The faculty of 'taste' was posited to explain why only some people had aesthetic appreciation
1.2 p.7 20386 The sublime is negative in awareness of insignificance, and positive in showing understanding
2.1 p.24 20388 'Necessary' conditions are requirements, and 'sufficient' conditions are guarantees
2.1 p.24 20389 A definition of a thing gives all the requirements which add up to a guarantee of it
2.2 p.27 20391 Feminists warn that ideologies use timeless objective definitions as a tool of repression
2.2 p.27 20390 Defining art as representation or expression or form were all undermined by the avant-garde
2.5 p.33 20392 'Aesthetic functionalism' says art is what is intended to create aesthetic experiences
2.5 p.36 20393 The 'institutional' theory says art is just something appropriately placed in the 'artworld'
3.5 p.67 20395 The title of a painting can be vital, and the artist decrees who the portrait represents
3.6 p.71 20396 We must know what the work is meant to be, to evaluate the artist's achievement
4.3 p.85 20397 If we could perfectly clone the Mona Lisa, the original would still be special
4.4 p.90 20398 Art that is multiply instanced may require at least one instance
5.3 p.111 20399 Intentionalism says either meaning just is intention, or ('moderate') meaning is successful intention
5.4 p.116 20401 The meaning is given by the audience's best guess at the author's intentions
6.4 p.141 20402 Music is too definite to be put into words (not too indefinite!)
6.4 p.142 20405 Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events
6.4 p.143 20403 It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write
6.4 p.144 20404 Music isn't just sad because it makes the listener feel sad
8.7 p.214 22704 Immorality may or may not be an artistic defect
8.7 p.216 22705 If the depiction of evil is glorified, that is an artistic flaw
8.7 p.218 22707 It is an artistic defect if excessive moral outrage distorts the story, and narrows our sympathies
8.7 p.218 22706 A work which seeks approval for immorality, but alienates the audience, is a failure