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Sep 27, 2024
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PHIL 452 - Aesthetics (3 units) CO12
Topics may include an examination of an important historical or contemporary text in aesthetics, or a specific art form (e.g., painting), or genre (e.g., the tragic).
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of philosophy.
Units of Lecture: 3
Core Status: CO12
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to state a thesis about a problem in philosophical aesthetics, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. Students will be able to explain and interpret the ideas associated with aesthetic theories in contemporary philosophical literature.
3. Students will be able to distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary aesthetic theories).
4. Students will be able to explain the concept of aesthetic value, and offer a reasoned account of how art (or other objects of aesthetic appreciation) may—or may not—have ethical value.
5. Students will be able to show what is at stake in abstract debates in philosophical aesthetics, and indicate how positions in these debates has implications for the practice of moral agents and, where relevant, other areas of philosophical inquiry.
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