Preface; chapter one: Introduction; 1.1 Challenges to Aesthetic Empiricism; 1.2 Methodological Interlude: The "Pragmatic Constraint" on the Ontology of Art; chapter two: Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art; 2.1 Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.2 Indirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.3 Direct Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.4 Drawing Ontological Conclusions from the Counter-Empiricist Arguments; chapter three: The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.1 The Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.2 Performance and Appreciation; 3.3 Ontology After Empiricism.
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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.