Artistic Value Is Attributive Goodness

Hanson, Louise

Abstract

It is common to distinguish between attributive and predicative goodness. There are good reasons to think that artistic value is a kind of attributive goodness. Surprisingly, however, much debate in philosophical aesthetics has proceeded as though artistic value is a kind of predicative goodness. As I argue, recognizing that artistic value is attributive goodness has important consequences for a number of debates in aesthetics.

Citation

Hanson, L. (2017). Artistic Value Is Attributive Goodness. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 75(4), 415-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12401

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 3, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 3, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017-09
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2019
• Journal: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Print ISSN: 0021-8529
• Electronic ISSN: 1540-6245
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 415-427
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12401
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1304177
• Related Public URLs: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270088