Ontology of Artifacts in Everyday Aesthetics 3501-OAEA-S
The course is designed to acquaint students with major issues within analytic ontology of artifacts and everyday aesthetics. In philosophical aesthetics, as traditionally understood, there are two domains of interest: artworks and nature. It is claimed that both manifest some valuable aesthetics properties. However, aesthetics objects are not limited to paintings, sculptures or natural landscapes. One must acknowledge that many everyday objects, activities and processes, such dirty laundry, cooking one’s favourite dish or sitting in a comfortable chair, might elicit serious aesthetics reactions. Some of these reactions are positive, some are rather negative. Everyday aesthetics aims to investigate such aesthetic experiences and explain to what extend everyday aesthetic phenomena differ from art and nature.The course provides the students with the following issues: (1) concept of everyday, everyday aesthetic quality and aesthetics experience; (2) the structure of everyday aesthetic experience; (3) analytic ontology of artifacts and its relation to everyday aesthetics; (4) the phenomena of artification; (5) the possibility of application everyday aestheticsʼ methods and tools to analysis of aesthetics artifacts.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
Nabyta wiedza:
- Słuchacze znają i rozumieją zaawansowane metody analizy i interpretacji z korpusu ontologii artefaktów i analitycznej estetyki codzienności.
- Słuchacze posiadają znajomość najwartościowszej i najnowszej literatury fachowej dotyczącej problematyki estetyki codzienności i artefaktów estetycznych.
Nabyte umiejętności:
- Słuchacze posiadają pogłębione umiejętności badawcze, obejmujące analizę prac innych autorów, syntezę różnych idei i poglądów.
Nabyte kompetencje społeczne:
- Słuchacze posiada umiejętność formułowania opinii krytycznych o wytworach kultury na podstawie wiedzy naukowej i doświadczenia.
Assessment criteria
- attendance
- active participation
- writing a short essay
Bibliography
Dowling. Christopher. “The Aesthetics of Daily Life”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 3 (50) 2010, s. 225–242.
Forsey , Jane. “Everyday Aesthetics and Design” [in:] idem, Aesthetics of Design, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hilpinen, Risto. “Authors and Artifacts”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 93 1993, s. 155–178.
Hilpinen, Risto. “Artifact”, [in:] Edward Zalta, (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1999/2011.
Irvin, Sherri. “The Ontological Diversity of Visual Artworks”, [in:] New Waves in Aesthetics, Katherine Thomson-Jones and Kathleen Stock, (eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, s. 11–14.
Leddy, Thomas. “Everyday Surface Aesthetic Qualities: “Neat”, “Messy”, “Clean”, “Dirty””, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 3 (53) 1995, s. 259–268.
Kraut, Robert. Artworld Metaphysics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Melchionne, Kevin. “The Definition of Everyday Aesthetics”, Contemporary Aesthetics, volume 11, 2013.
Naukkarinen, Ossi. “Variations in Artification”, [in:] Ossi Naukkarinen and Yuriko Saito, (eds.), special volume 4, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2012.
Naukkarinen, Ossi. “What is ʻEverydayʼ in Everyday Aesthetics?”, Contemporary Aesthetics, volume 11, 2013.
Saito, Yuriko. Everyday Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Saito, Yuriko. “Everyday Aesthetics and Artification”, [in:] “Artification”, Ossi Naukkarinen and Yuriko Saito (eds.), special volume 4, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2012.
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