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Art delights us, but how so, and why? Can art be modes of discovery and creation that enhance understanding? Explore art’s relationship with cognitive science,...

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Art Seeking Understanding I: Foundations

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Season 20

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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the value of the arts as sources of understanding — the arts as more than sources of delight, amusement, pleasure, or emotional...

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Aesthetic Cognitivism I: Overview and Concepts

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51:24

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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are the scholarly or scientific fields that form its foundation? Explore art’s...

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Aesthetic Cognitivism II: Intellectual Foundations

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1:19:04

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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are its potential conclusions and consequences? Will art become a subset of science? Or can...

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Aesthetic Cognitivism III: Meaning and Implications

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52:12

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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are the kinds of methods or experiments or ways of thinking that can advance how art might...

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Aesthetic Cognitivism IV: Research and Methodology

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1:22:10

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Creativity generates art. How can art discern or inform the nature of creativity? Conversely, how can discerning or informing art elucidate the creative process?

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Art and the Creative Process

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41:10

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Jonathan Anderson

Associate Professor of Art, Biola University

Justin Barrett

President, Blueprint 1543

Alfonse Borysewicz

Painter

Pascal Boyer

Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Hopkins

Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Aesthetic Cognitivism

Episodes

Art Seeking Understanding I: Foundations

Topic Series

Aesthetic Cognitivism I: Overview and Concepts

Aesthetic Cognitivism II: Intellectual Foundations

Aesthetic Cognitivism III: Meaning and Implications

Aesthetic Cognitivism IV: Research and Methodology

Art and the Creative Process

Contributors

Jonathan Anderson

Justin Barrett

Alfonse Borysewicz

Pascal Boyer

Christopher Brewer

David Brown

Anjan Chatterjee

Gordon Graham

Michael Hopkins

Jean-Luc Jucker

E. Thomas Lawson

Matthew Milliner

Carl Plantinga

Antonius Roberts

Aaron Rosen

Simone Schnall

W. Christopher Stewart

Murray Watts

John Witvliet

Judith Wolfe

Semir Zeki

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Aesthetic Cognitivism

Episodes

Art Seeking Understanding I: Foundations

Topic Series

Aesthetic Cognitivism I: Overview and Concepts

Aesthetic Cognitivism II: Intellectual Foundations

Aesthetic Cognitivism III: Meaning and Implications

Contributors

Jonathan Anderson

Justin Barrett

Alfonse Borysewicz

Pascal Boyer