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Matthew Kieran
Researcher at University of Leeds
Publications - 35
Citations - 756
Matthew Kieran is an academic researcher from University of Leeds. The author has contributed to research in topics: Value (ethics) & Moral character. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 35 publications receiving 699 citations.
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The vice of snobbery: aesthetic knowledge, justification and virtue in art appreciation
TL;DR: In this article, a virtue-theoretic account of art appreciation and aesthetic justification is presented, as contrasted with a purely reliabilist one, leading towards a new direction for contemporary aesthetics.
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Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind
TL;DR: Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin and Jon Robson as mentioned in this paper discuss the limits of aesthetic experience and the importance of neuroscience in the development of artistic experience, and present a portrait of the artist as an Aesthetic expert.
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Contemporary debates in aesthetics and the philosophy of art
TL;DR: A conceptual map of issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the relationship between aesthetic experience and value in the arts, as well as the relation between the two.
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Art, imagination, and the cultivation of morals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the arguments against the role of moral evaluation in art, which strengthen the presumption in favor of aestheticism, can only undermine a crudely instrumentalist conception of art's relation to morality, where an artwork is conceived of as morally significant to the extent it evokes morally sound responses and understandings.
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