Readership: Scholars and teachers of aesthetics, graduate and undergraduate students.
Frank Sibley, former Professor of Philosophy, Lancaster University
"The publication of a collection of Sibley's papers is a major event, and the editors, as well as Oxford University Press, are to be congratulated for this collection and its companion volume of critical essays." - Mind
"Exhibit[s] Sibley's characteristically refreshing, rigorous and thought-provoking approach to his subject." - Mind
"The book facilitates a survey of Sibley's contribution to aesthetics, and confirms his place as one of the outstanding thinkers of his generation." - The Philosophical Quarterly
Editors' Introduction 1: Aesthetic Concepts 2: Aesthetics and the Looks of Things 3: Aesthetic and Non-aesthetic 4: About Taste 5: Colours 6: Objectivity and Aesthetics 7: Particularity, Art and Evaluation 8: General Criteria and Reasons in Aesthetics 9: Originality and Value 10: Arts or the Aesthetic - which comes first? 11: Making Music Our Own 12: Adjectives, Predicative and Attributive 13: Aesthetic Judgements: Pebbles, Faces and Fields of Litter 14: Some Notes on Ugliness 15: Tastes, Smells and Aesthetics 16: Why the Mona Lisa May Not Be a Painting
