A copy of your syllabus can be found here (*for your syllabus with updated presentation times, look in our dropbox)
A dropbox with shared course readings can be found here.
Our shared space / google doc with examples of aesthetic experiences HERE!
My general paper grading rubric can be found here.
Below find a schedule of readings and assignments:
| Date / Topic | Assignment Due |
| Tues, Aug 23
Introduction |
No assignment: personal introductions and syllabus overview |
| Thurs, Aug 25
Introduction |
Scruton, Beauty, Chpt 2 selection (I will provide a PDF)
*I also gave a model of a presentation (you will sign up for presentations on Tuesday) |
| Tues, Aug 30
Introduction |
We will read selections from Plato’s Symposium in class
Scruton, Beauty, Chapter 1: Judging Beauty (I will provide a PDF while you wait for your books to come in) |
| Thurs, Sep 1
Theories of Beauty |
Kant, Selections from the Critique of the Power of Judgment (or look at a pdf of Kant with introduction in your dropbox folder)
Please read (from the Analytic of Judgment): -First moment sections 1, 2 -Second Moment sections 6, 8 -Third moment sections 11, 16 (Recommended Beauty, Chapter 6: Taste and Order) |
| Tues, Sep 6
Theories of Beauty |
CLASS WILL BE HELD AT THE FROST MUSEUM
Hume, Selections from Of the Standards of Taste (PDF pages 12-22 in our shared dropbox folder)
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| Thurs, Sep 8
Theories of Beauty |
Burke, Selections from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
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Tues, Sep 13
Theories of Beauty / Appreciating Nature |
Catherine Wilson, “Another Darwinian Aesthetics” (first six pages)(PDF HERE) Scruton, Beauty, Chapter 3: Natural Beauty |
| Thurs, Sep 15
Appreciating Nature |
Allen Carlson, “Aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment” (AA) |
| Tues, Sep 20
Appreciating Nature |
Noel Carroll, “On being moved by nature” (AA) |
| Thurs, Sep 22
Appreciating Nature |
Malcolm Budd, “Models of nature appreciation” (AA) |
| Tues ,Sep 27
Appreciating Nature |
Donald Crawford, “Art & Nature: Some Dialectical Relationships” PDF
Recommended: Yuriko Saito “The Aesthetics of Unscenic Nature” (1997) PDF |
| Thurs, Sep 29
Appreciating Nature/ Art Appreciation |
FIRST QUIZ
Scruton, Beauty, Chapter 5: Artistic Beauty |
| Tues, Oct 4
Art Appreciation |
Tolstoy, What is Art?
(http://web.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r14.html) |
| Thurs, Oct 6
Art Appreciation |
Dewy, Selections from Art As Experience
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| Tues, Oct 11
Art Appreciation |
Bell, selections
(http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/bell-a.pdf) |
| Thurs, Oct 13
Art Appreciation |
MEET IN THE LIBRARY: GL280
Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” |
| Tues, Oct 18
Public Art |
Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”
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| Thurs, Oct 20
Public Art |
Transcripts of Tilted Arc Hearing (AA)
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| Tues, Oct 25
Public Art |
Hilde Hein “What Is Public Art? Time, Place, and Meaning” (AA) Recommended: Gregg M. Horowitz, Public art/public spaces (AA)
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| Thurs, Oct 27
Fakes and Forgeries |
Alfred Lessing, “What is wrong with a forgery?” (AA) |
| Tues, Nov 1
Fakes and Forgeries |
Denis Dutton, “Artistic Crimes” (AA)
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| Thurs, Nov 3
Fakes and Forgeries |
F is for Fake (movie we watch in class)
Recommended: Carolyn Korsmeyer, “Aesthetic Deception: On Encounters with the Past” (PDF) *PROJECT PLAN DUE |
| Tues ,Nov 8
Horror |
Noel Carroll, “Why Horror?” (AA) |
| Thurs, Nov 10
Horror |
Berys Gaut, “The paradox of horror” (AA) |
| Tues, Nov 15
Human Beauty |
SECOND QUIZ
Scruton, Beauty, Chapter 2 (Human Beauty), Chapter 7 (Art and Eros) |
| Thurs, Nov 17
Human Beauty |
Ted Cohen, “Personal Style” (PDF) |
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Tues, Nov 22
Human Beauty |
Jo Ellen Jacobs, “The Bronze Age Revisited: The Aesthetics of Sun Tanning” (PDF) |
| Thurs, Nov 24 NO CLASS |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| Tues, Nov 29
Human Beauty |
Anne Eaton, “Bodily Taste and Fat Oppression” (forthcoming) |
| Thurs, Dec 1
Human Beauty |
Sheila Lintott and Sherri Irvin, “Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness” (forthcoming) |
| Sunday Dec 4 | PAPERS DUE @ 11:59 pm (changed from Friday – I gave you a few more days!) |
| Tuesday Dec 6
FINAL EXAM |
FINAL EXAM , 2:15-4:15 Owa Ehan 100 |
*Grades will be posted on December 15th .
* I reserve the right to add to / eliminate / change the readings assigned in this course.