Dutton, Davies, and Imaginative Virtual Worlds: The Current State of Evolutionary Aesthetics

This paper is a commentary comparing the evolutionary perspectives of Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct (2009) and Stephen Davies’s The Artful Species (2012). Their topics thus necessarily overlap, but their books have different purposes and a different feel. Davies’s book is an academic exercise. He...

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Main Author: Joseph Carroll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-12-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13771