Aesthetic predicates: a hybrid dispositional account

• Published in: Inquiry (Oslo) Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 723 - 751
• Main Author: Marques, Teresa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oslo Routledge 17.08.2016; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Oslo University Press
• Subjects: Aesthetic predicates; Aesthetics; Contextualism (Philosophy); Contextualisme (Filosofia); disagreement; dispositionalism; Estètica; Filosofia del llenguatge; hybrid expressivism; Linguistics; Philosophy; Philosophy of language; presuppositions of commonality; Semantics; Semàntica

This paper explores the possibility of developing a hybrid version of dispositional theories of aesthetic values. On such a theory, uses of aesthetic predicates express relational second-order dispositional properties. If the theory is not absolutist, it allows for the relativity of aesthetic values...