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A Naturalistic and Behavioral Theory of Aesthetics [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2019
Aesthetic reactions occur when cognitive and affective elements interact, in diverse arts. Affective elements result from past Pavlovian conditioning events and other sources.
Francis Mechner
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Beyond Distance: The Aesthetic and Ethical Impact of Touch in Art

ESPES
This paper explores the aesthetic and ethical implications of touch in contemporary art, challenging the Kantian notion of aesthetic distance, which has long privileged vision and hearing as the primary senses for experiencing art.
Barbora Řebíková
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Haptic Aesthetics as the Possibility of Haptic Epistemology

ESPES
The denotative and theoretical indeterminacy make the sense of touch an ambiguous concept to work with. While materiality and relationality, traditionally assigned in philosophical discourses and acknowledged through scientific research, are considered ...
Maša Tomšič
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Touch and the Aesthetics of Food

ESPES
Both food and the sense of touch mainly were ignored throughout the history of Western philosophy. Times have changed, and finally, research is done on touch and on food even in Ango-American aesthetics.
Sanna Hirvonen
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Nesmrteľnosť, moc a démonické sily

ESPES, 2014
The story of Faust is a part of European culture and mythology for five centuries and modified and reflected looking of the society upon some key questions in various transformation. Faust has never been alone in his effort to reach an absolute knowledge
Lukáš Makky
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Original Vinyl Only! Records, Touch, Auras, and the Past

ESPES
Touch has recently gained attention in aesthetics. Carolyn Korsmeyer argues that touchable artefacts offer valuable aesthetic encounters with genuineness, rarity, and connection to the past.
Tony Chackal
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ISEV2026 Abstract Book

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Volume 15, Issue S1, June 2026.
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Breaking Aesthetic Boundaries: Arthur Danto, Yuriko Saito, and the Challenge to Western Aesthetic Thought

ESPES
This article examines how Arthur C. Danto and Yuriko Saito sought to expand the boundaries of aesthetics and art, challenging the inherited concepts of Western modernity. While Danto redefines art as an intellectual rather than a purely visual phenomenon,
Raquel Cascales
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Poster Sessions

HemaSphere, Volume 9, Issue S1, June 2025.
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Kitsch: New Perspectives on a Controversial Aesthetic and Cultural Phenomenon

ESPES
Introduction to thematic issue of ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics, Vol 13(2), 2024.
Lisa Schmalzried
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