{"id":88,"date":"2017-08-21T19:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T03:52:20","slug":"aesthetics-fall-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/past-courses\/aesthetics-fall-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics &#8211; Fall 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>PHI 3800 U02: Aesthetics \u2013 Fall 2017 Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Scarbrough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Class: Wednesdays 2-4:45 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Location: Academic Health Center 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Office Hours: T\/Th 11:20-12:20, W 1-2, DM340B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:lizscar@uw.edu\"><strong>escarbro@fiu.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is an abbreviated syllabus. Your full syllabus can be found here in pdf form (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/escarbro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/427\/2017\/08\/PHI-3800-Fall-2017-.pdf\">PHI 3800 Fall 2017)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This class is an introduction to aesthetic theory. While we will spend a considerable amount of time discussing paintings and other objects you would see at a museum, we will also discuss the aesthetics of film, nature, and human beauty. Some of the many questions that will be asked in this class include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Beauty<\/strong>: What is beauty? Is beauty objective reality, or is it merely &#8220;in the eye of the beholder&#8221; &#8212; i.e. a subjective psychological response that reveals nothing about the real world?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Art:<\/strong> What is art? How do we distinguish an art object from other artifacts? What role does\/should art play in society? Who should get to choose public art? Why do fakes and forgeries bother us so much?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emotions\/ Film:<\/strong> What\u2019s the role of the emotions in art? In film? Why do we get scared when we watch a horror movie (if we know it is fake)? Why do we still find these movies scary after multiple viewings? Why do we enjoy feeling scared, repulsed, etc.?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Nature:<\/strong> Is our aesthetic experience of nature different in kind than our experience of art? Do we do something (morally\/aesthetically) inappropriate if we view nature the way we view a beautiful landscape painting? Can aesthetic arguments be made to protect nature?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Beauty:<\/strong> When we say a person is beautiful, what do we mean? Physical beauty? A beautiful soul? How is our perception of human beauty shaped by our culture? By erotic desire? How does gender, race, and sexual orientation inform our concept of human beauty? Is our concept of beauty historically contingent or evolutionarily based.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Required Texts:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Arguing about Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates,\u00a0<\/em>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Edition, Neill &amp; Ridley editors<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Text:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scruton, Roger. <em>Beauty: A Very Short Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TENTATIVE LESSON PLAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 1: August 23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Introductions, On Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scruton<em> Beauty <\/em>Chapter 2 (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Plato\u2019s Symposium selections (in class)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 2: August 30<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Concepts of beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Selections from Kant\u2019s<em> Critique of the Power of Judgment<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisdutton.com\/kant_third_critique.htm\">http:\/\/www.denisdutton.com\/kant_third_critique.htm<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Hume, Of the Standards of Taste (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlymoderntexts.com\/assets\/pdfs\/hume1757essay2.pdf)\"><em>http:\/\/www.earlymoderntexts.com\/assets\/pdfs\/hume1757essay2.pdf)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 3: September 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: The sublime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burke, Selections from <em>A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.warwick.ac.uk\/files\/rvpsupperclub\/burke_sublime_and_the_beautiful.pdf\"><em>https:\/\/blogs.warwick.ac.uk\/files\/rvpsupperclub\/burke_sublime_and_the_beautiful.pdf<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kant, Selections<\/p>\n<p>Donald Crawford, \u201cArt &amp; Nature: Some Dialectical Relationships\u201d (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 4: September 13<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Aesthetics of Natural Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allen Carlson, \u201cAesthetic appreciation of the natural environment\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Noel Carroll, \u201cOn being moved by nature\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 5: September 20<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: What makes something a work of art? Week 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shiner, \u201cWestern and Non-Western Concepts of Art\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Tolstoy, <em>What is Art?<\/em> ((<a href=\"http:\/\/web.csulb.edu\/~jvancamp\/361r14.html)\">http:\/\/web.csulb.edu\/~jvancamp\/361r14.html)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 6: September 27<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: What makes something a work of art? Week 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clive Bell, <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.lander.edu\/intro\/articles\/bell-a.pdf\">http:\/\/philosophy.lander.edu\/intro\/articles\/bell-a.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Danto, \u201cThe Artworld\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.georgetown.edu\/irvinem\/visualarts\/Danto-Artworld.pdf)\">http:\/\/faculty.georgetown.edu\/irvinem\/visualarts\/Danto-Artworld.pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 7: October 4<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Food As Art? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tefler, \u201cFood as Art\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Korsmeyer, \u201cThe Meaning of taste and the taste of meaning\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 8: October 11<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Midterm and Catch-up day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 9: October 18<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic: Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scruton, \u201cThe Decline of Musical Culture\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Gracyk, \u201cMusic\u2019s worldly uses, or how I learned to top worrying and to love Led Zepplin\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 10:\u00a0 October 25<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Horror Films<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carroll, \u201cWhy Horror?\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Gaut \u201cThe paradox of horror\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 11: November 1st<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Problems in art \u2013 public art<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hein, \u201cWhat is public art? Time, place, and meaning\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Kelly: \u201cPublic art controversy: the Serra and Lin cases\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 12: November 8<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Human Beauty <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne Eaton, \u201cBodily Taste and Fat Oppression\u201d (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Lintott and Sherri Irvin, <em>\u201cSex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Feminist Reclamation of Sexiness\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>WEEK 13: November 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Human Beauty \/ Draft Day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ted Cohen, \u201cPersonal Style\u201d (PDF)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 14: November 22<sup>nd (Wednesday before Thanksgiving) <\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Fakes and Forgeries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watch: <em>F for Fake <\/em>in class<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 15: November 29<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOPIC: Fakes and Forgeries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lessing, \u201cWhat is wrong with a forgery?\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>Dutton, \u201cArtistic Crimes\u201d (AA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAPER DUE DEC 2<sup>nd<\/sup> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHI 3800 U02: Aesthetics \u2013 Fall 2017 Philosophy Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Scarbrough Class: Wednesdays 2-4:45 Location: Academic Health Center 3 Office Hours: T\/Th 11:20-12:20, W 1-2, DM340B Email: escarbro@fiu.edu Below is an abbreviated syllabus. 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