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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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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Arts and the Creative Process

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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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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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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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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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Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art?...

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Can Art and Knowledge Enhance Each Other?

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Can art inform topics in philosophy of religion? Can the existence and varieties of art address or affect theological questions about God, faith, belief, worship?

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Can Art Engage Philosophy of Religion?

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What is the nature of art? What makes something “art”, and why should we value it? What are aesthetics and art theory? Can philosophy of art enhance appreciation...

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What is Philosophy of Art?

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What’s the relationship between the mental activity of our minds and the physical actions of our brain? It’s called The Mind-Body Problem. To many, it’s a perennial...

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Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?

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Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art?...

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Art and Epistemology

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Can art inform topics in philosophy of religion? Can the existence and varieties of art address or affect theological questions about God, faith, belief, worship?

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Art and the Philosophy of Religion

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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Can the Brain Explain Art?

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How can aesthetics be explained by the brain and its underlying biological, chemical, and physical processes? Neuroscience is explaining ever more about art, but will...

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Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience

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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Neuroaesthetics: How the Brain Explains Art

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What can we learn about art by studying perception, cognition, emotion? And what can we learn about perception, cognition, emotion by studying art?

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How Does Art Affect Perception, Cognition, Emotion?

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What can music reveal about how the mind works? How does cognitive science study the human capacity for, and experience of, music? How to tease apart the elements of music:...

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Can Music Probe Mentality? (Part 2)

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What can music reveal about how the mind works? How does cognitive science study the human capacity for, and experience of, music? How to tease apart the elements of music:...

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Can Music Probe Mentality?

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How can the three pounds of wet tissue inside our skulls create and appreciate the grandeur and psychic power of music? Musical feel, beauty and emotion seem so radically...

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How Do Brains Make Music? (Part 1)

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How can the three pounds of wet tissue inside our skulls create and appreciate the grandeur and psychic power of music? Musical feel, beauty and emotion seem so radically...

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How Do Brains Make Music? (Part 2)

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If God is the creator of human beings and art reflects human sentience, then can examining the arts discern reflections of God? Can one infer from various aspects of art...

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Can Art Reveal God’s Traits?

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If God is the Creator of human beings and art is a feature of human sentience, then can examining the arts help discern characteristics of God? Can one infer from various...

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Can the Arts Reveal God's Traits?

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Is it possible to infer something of the nonphysical, divine existence of God from the physical, human existence of art? Can one argue for God from art?

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Arguing God from the Arts? 

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Art is deeply involved in the practice of religion, embedded in the rituals and liturgy of almost every religion. But how could the ubiquity of the arts in religion affect...

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Arts and Religious Reality

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What is the relationship between experiencing art and experiencing God? Can the arts generate or trigger religious experience? If so, can it be validated?

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Arts and Religious Experience

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Is there a relationship between diverse arts and belief in God? Can the arts express or encourage religious belief? If so, can it be validated?

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Arts and Religious Belief

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Why are the arts so deeply embedded in religious settings and services? How do the arts work in religious spaces and activities? What are differences among the arts, say...

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Arts and Religious Practice (Liturgy)

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Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archaeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that...

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Did Art and Religion Co-Evolve?

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How does human thinking and feeling affect human culture? How does collective society emerge from individual mentalities?

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Cognition and Culture (Part 2)

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Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that...

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Co-Evolution of Art and Religion

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How does human thinking and feeling affect human culture? How does collective society emerge from individual mentalities?

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Cognition and Culture (Part 1)

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Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part 1)

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Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part 2)

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Toward a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics (Part 1)

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Can Art Affect Morality? (Part 2)

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Mind, Art, Transcendence: Reflections (Part 2)

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How Art Affects the Self (Part 1)

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