De Gustibus : Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It - Peter Kivy

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De Gustibus

Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It

By: Peter Kivy

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Hardcover | 22 October 2015

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In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the ''facts'' of the world either to influence people''s behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue over ethical matters, if we are ethical ''realists,'' because we think we are arguing about ''facts'' in the world. And we argue about ethics, if we are ''emotivists,'' or are now what are called ''expressionists,'' which is to say, people who think matters of ethics are simply matters of ''attitude,'' to influence the behaviour of others. But why should we argue about works of art? There are no ''actions'' we wish to motivate. Whether I think Bach is greater than Beethoven and you think the opposite, why should it matter to either of us to convince the other? This is a question that philosophers have never faced. Kivy claims here that we argue over taste because we think, mistakenly or not, that we are arguing over matters of fact.

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Peter Kivy's defence of aesthetic realism is to argue that it is incoherent to be an error theorist and still engage in aesthetic disputes. * Barry C. Smith, Times Literary Supplement *
This bookshould interest aestheticians; but not only them. Moral philosophers prone to casual afterthoughts concerning aesthetics should read it, too. * Christopher Williams, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. *

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