Intro; Preface; Contents; 1 Realism; Abstract; 1.1 What Is Realism?; 1.2 Redirecting the Debate: Minimalism, Pluralism and 'Cognitive Command'; 1.3 Quietism; 1.4 Realism in Aesthetics: Creativity and the World; 2 Error Theory; Abstract; 2.1 Mackie's Error Theory of Values; 2.2 McDowell's Reply; 2.3 'Common-Sense' Realism; 3 Aesthetic Autonomy; Abstract; 3.1 The Autonomy Thesis; 3.2 Philosophers on Aesthetic Autonomy; 3.3 Why the Autonomy Thesis Is True; 3.4 The Supposed Contrast with Colour Judgements; 3.5 Why Autonomy Is Compatible with Realism; 4 Hume's Standard of Taste; Abstract
4.1 Introducing the Standard of Taste4.2 Standard of Taste: Discovered or Constituted?; 4.3 Sentimentalism and Realism; 5 Arguments for Aesthetic Realism; Abstract; 5.1 A Last Anti-realist Argument Considered; 5.2 Indispensability and Explanation; 5.3 Descriptive Limits of Aesthetic Attributions; 5.4 Simplicity; 5.5 The Aesthetic/Non-aesthetic Distinction; 6 The Nature of Aesthetic Reality; Abstract; 6.1 The Epistemic Notion of 'Taste'; 6.2 Value-Grounding Properties; 6.3 Higher-Order Ways of Appearing; 6.4 Desire-Mediated Properties; 6.5 'Through Loving Spectacles'; 6.6 Including Beauty