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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder [PDF]
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022 I offer the first sustained defence of the claim that ugliness is constituted by the disposition to disgust. I advance three main lines of argument in support of this thesis.
Ryan P. Doran
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Pathologizing Ugliness: A Conceptual Analysis of the Naturalist and Normativist Claims in “Aesthetic Pathology” [PDF]
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2022 Pathologizing ugliness refers to the use of disease language and medical processes to foster and support the claim that undesirable features are pathological conditions requiring medical or surgical intervention.
Yves Saint James Aquino
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The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluationsOSF
Acta PsychologicaThe beauty or ugliness of a face is affected by factors such as the resolution of the face image presented on the screen and its exposure duration. The present study investigated the effects of image resolution and exposure duration on the beauty and ...
Takanori Sano +3 more
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CrossingsThe socio-cultural construction of beauty simultaneously generates a normative understanding of unattractiveness as well, since these properties exist in binary within popular perceptions.
Ahmed Abdullah Bin Farooqi Rayhan
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UGLY AND UGLINESS IN CLASSICAL TURKISH POETRY
Ulakbilge Dergisi, 2020 Ugliness has been a concept and image that shapes its meaning and definition through beauty. Throughout the ages, the definition of ugliness has also been made as the opposite of beauty.
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Neuroaesthetics has been searching for the neural bases of the subjective experience of beauty. It has been demonstrated that neural activities in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the left primary motor cortex (lPMC) correlate with the subjective ...
Koyo eNakamura, Hideaki eKawabata
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Landscape and Power: The Debate Around Ugliness in Galicia (Spain)
Landscape Research, 2020 The approval of the European Landscape Convention in 2000 placed landscape at the centre of the political debate and gave it visibility. At that time, a movement surrounding the concept of ugliness began in Galicia (Spain), which condemned the ...
Xosé M Santos +1 more
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Phenomenology as an Approach to Seeing the Aesthetics of Ugliness in Contemporary Art Designs
Al-academy, 2023 With a descriptive and analytical approach, it discusses the concept of phenomenology as an approach to seeing the aesthetics of ugliness as one of the concepts associated with the aesthetic experience in contemporary art designs, as it is the result of
Tahani Mohammad Nasser AL-Arifi
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Neural Correlates of the Experience of Ugliness
European Journal of NeurosciencePrevious studies have shown that the experience of beauty is dependent upon the co‐activity of field A1 of the medial frontal cortex and sensory areas.
Ahmad Beyh, Semir Zeki, Samuel E Rasche
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The Sublime, Ugliness and Contemporary Art: A Kantian Perspective
Con-textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 2015 The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to explain the distinction between Kant’s notions of the sublime and ugliness, and to answer an important question that has been left unnoticed in contemporary studies, namely why it is the case that even though ...
Mojca Kuplen
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