The Research Seminar Series in Philosophy invites you to a seminar with Nils Franzén who will speak on the topic of The experience requirement in aesthetics.
A variety of acts and mental states have been claimed to be problematic if they are aesthetic in nature and not based on first-hand experience. It has, for instance, been claimed that knowing, or even merely believing, that a movie is good requires that one has seen it oneself.
In this talk, I’ll propose that neither knowledge nor belief with aesthetic content requires first-hand experience. However, states like appreciating a movie, and those that we attribute with “find”/”tycka”, like finding a movie to be good, do so. I’ll offer a diagnosis of this requirement.
This seminar is intended primarily for presentations of PhD work and other research in philosophy conducted at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Guest lectures sometimes take place in the seminar as well. The seminars are given in English and all interested are welcome to attend these events.
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