“Aesthetic Primitives”: Fundamental Biological Elements of a Naturalistic Aesthetics

Aesthetics, like other philosophical subjects, has historically made use of «top down» (mentalistic, analytic, and linguistic) methods. Recent discoveries in genetics, evolutionary psychology, paleoarchaeology, and neuroscience call for a new «naturalistic» or «bottom up» perspective. Combining the...

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Main Author: Ellen Dissanayake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2015-05-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/855