title: Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe
creator: Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: So the central question here is phenomenological: What is the nature of the aesthetic zap? For it is this experience, or its promise, which gives art such a deep hold on human life. But the issue of representation, while secondary, is still pregnant with cognitive implications: Why is representation, of all the devices available to an artist, more likely to shift the odds in favour of eliciting and/or intensifying aesthetic experience? Assuming a Darwinian view of our species, it is likely that the answer to both questions will come from understanding how our capacity to enjoy art grows out of normal cognition.
date: 2008
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/7591/1/Mangan_2008_RepresentationRightnessAndTheFringe_JCS.pdf
identifier:   Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.  (2008) Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/7591/