Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Dependence
6. Chapter 1. The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy 9
7. Chapter 2. The Concept of the Aesthetic 24
8. Chapter 3. Aesthetic Supervenience Defended 43
9. Part Two. Formalism
10. Chapter 4. Feasible Aesthetic Formalism 55
11. Chapter 5. In Defense of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism 82
12. Chapter 6. Defusing Anti-Formalist Arguments 102
13. Chapter 7. Formal Natural Beauty 112
14. Chapter 8. Aesthetic/Sensory Dependence 127
15. Part Three. Realism
16. Chapter 9. Hume, Taste, and Teleology 149
17. Chapter 10. Metaphor and Realism in Aesthetics 166
18. Chapter 11. Skin-Deep or in the Eye of the Beholder? 176
19. Chapter 12. Differences 201
20. Index 219