creators_name: Mangan, Bruce B.
creators_id: mangan@cogsci.berkeley.edu
type: journalp
datestamp: 2011-08-30 04:22:19
lastmod: 2011-08-30 04:22:19
metadata_visibility: show
title: Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: Aesthetics, Feeling of Knowing, Fringe, Rightness, Structure of Consciousness, William James

abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Consciousness Studies
volume: 15
number: 9
pagerange: 75-82
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.  (2008) Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7591/1/Mangan_2008_RepresentationRightnessAndTheFringe_JCS.pdf