Cognitive penetration and the gallery of indiscernibles

Frontiers in Psychology

Bence Nanay¹ 

关键词: perception;    cognitive penetration;    aesthetic value;    indiscernibles;    attention;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01527

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Here is Danto's gallery of indiscernibles thought experiment (Danto, 1981, p.1)—a thought experiment that radically transformed the kind of questions aesthetics and the philosophy of art asks today. Imagine a gallery of indiscernible canvases that are all monochrome red of the same shade and of the same size. While the observable properties of all these artworks are the same, their “meaning” and aesthetic value can be very different: if one of the paintings, made by a counterrevolutionary Russian émigré is called “Red Square” and the other one is called “The Israelites crossing the Red Sea,” then these two paintings, in spite of being indistinguishable, will have very different aesthetic value. Thus, aesthetic value is only loosely (if at all) related to perception.

【 授权许可】

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