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Understanding Aesthetics and Fitness Measures in Evolutionary Art Systems [PDF]
Complexity, 2019 One of the general aims of evolutionary art research is to build a computer system capable of creating interesting, beautiful, or creative results, including images, videos, animations, text, and performances. In this context, it is crucial to understand
Colin G. Johnson +3 more
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Towards an integrated science of aesthetics: Getting rid of the main misunderstandings in evolutionary aesthetics [PDF]
Fragmentum, 2019 Evolutionary Aesthetics is a bourgeoning and thriving sub-field of Aesthetics, the main aim of which is “the importation of aesthetics into natural sciences, and especially its integration into the heuristic of Darwin’s evolutionary theory.” Notwithstanding the growing popularity in the past two decades, a look into the state of current research in ...
PORTERA, Mariagrazia
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Evolutionary Universal Aesthetics in Ecological Rationality [PDF]
Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2006 Abstract We contend that individual reactions to universal aesthetics were critical in adapting human brain structure and evolutionary cognition. Emotional responses to aesthetics and reflexive judgments by prehistoric people may have evolved an ecological rationality with intimate pragmatics of survival. In North American Pacific Northwest ecosystems,
Mimi Lam, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza
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, 2023 This article reviews the volume \u27Everydayness: Contemporary Aesthetic Approaches\u27, edited by Lisa Gombini and Adrián Kvokačka. Thomas Froy assesses the relation, explored by the contributing authors, between the notion of the \u27everyday\u27 and ...
Froy, Thomas
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«La bellezza è un sentimento istintivo». L’estetico nei Notebooks darwiniani
Aisthesis, 2012 From Charles Darwin, the theoretical framework of evolutionary aesthetics is sexual selection. Recent debate focuses the attention particularly on the criterion of female choice.
Lorenzo Bartalesi
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“Aesthetic Primitives”: Fundamental Biological Elements of a Naturalistic Aesthetics
Aisthesis, 2015 Aesthetics, like other philosophical subjects, has historically made use of «top down» (mentalistic, analytic, and linguistic) methods. Recent discoveries in genetics, evolutionary psychology, paleoarchaeology, and neuroscience call for a new ...
Ellen Dissanayake
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Evolutionary aesthetics (EA) investigates the origins and evolution of aesthetic preferences and artistic behaviors, along with the underlying capacities that support these preferences and behaviors.
Marchetti, Luca
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Aisthesis, 2013 Evolutionary Aesthetics emerges today as a young and lively field of studies whose main aim is to rethink the traditional questions of philosophical Aesthetics in the light of biological theories, in particular in the light of Darwin's evolutionary ...
Lorenzo Bartalesi, Mariagrazia Portera
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Paths from the Philosophy of Art to Everyday Aesthetics [PDF]
, 2019 During the past few decades, everyday aesthetics has established itself as a new branch of philosophical aesthetics alongside the more traditional philosophy of art.
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Quale storia naturale per l’estetico? L’ipotesi darwiniana rivisitata
Rivista di Estetica, 2013 In spite of the great number of publications, contemporary evolutionary aesthetics seems to have reached deadlock, for the lack of a real epistemological reflection on the theoretical nucleus of its own experimental investigations.
Lorenzo Bartalesi
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