Functional beauty, pleasure and experience

Paris, Panos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-1075 2020. Functional beauty, pleasure and experience. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (3) , pp. 516-530. 10.1080/00048402.2019.1640754

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Abstract

I offer a set of sufficient conditions for beauty, drawing on Parsons and Carlson’s account of ‘functional beauty’. First, I argue that Parsons and Carlson’s account is flawed, whilst falling short of its promise of bringing comprehensiveness and unity to aesthetics. Instead, I propose, the account should be modified to state that if an object is well-formed for its function(s) and pleases competent judges in so far as it is thus experienced, then it is beautiful. I argue that my proposal offers greater informativeness, comprehensiveness and unity––accommodating, inter alia, mathematical, literary, and moral beauty––whilst surviving reflective scrutiny.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0004-8402
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 June 2020
Date of Acceptance:	21 June 2019
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 01:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/132127

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