A Gray Matter of Taste: Sound Perception, Music Cognition, and Baumgarten's Aesthetics (2012)
Pannese, Alessia (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 43, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 594-601
The aesthetic appreciation of art depends on learned, culturally determined factors. The aesthetic response to music is associated with automatic, physical events. Coexistence of cultural and physical factors epitomizes Baumgarten's theory of taste. Music reconciliates scientific and humanistic meanings of the word aesthetics.
...MoreDescription On the ideas of 18th-century philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.
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