TY - JOUR AU - Benovsky, Jiri PY - 2017/01/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Against Aesthetic/Sensory Dependence JF - The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics JA - NJA VL - 25 IS - 51 SE - Articles DO - 10.7146/nja.v25i51.25158 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/25158 SP - AB - <p>In his book The Metaphysics of Beauty (2001) Nick Zangwill argues for the claim that aesthetic properties metaphysically necessarily depend on sensory properties. This claim plays a role in his argument against physicalist aesthetic realism as well as in the formulation of his own response- dependence view. In this article, I offer reasons to resist the aesthetic/ sensory dependence claim by a discussion of the case of theories, theorems, proofs, and similar theoretical objects, which do possess genuinely aesthetic properties, while these do not depend on any sensory properties. I argue against Zangwill’s claim that such attributions of aesthetic properties are merely metaphorical.</p> ER -