Evaluative Perception
ISBN: 9780198786054
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Metaphysics/ Epistemology Moral Philosophy;

Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgment - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant kind of evaluation is perceptual. For instance, we often use perceptuallanguage in the context of aesthetic and ethical evaluation: "the Botticelli looks incredible close-up", "I could hear her demeaning tone". This volume brings together philosophers to investigate whatwe call evaluative perception. Questions considered include: Is there such a thing as evaluative perception? Does it play an important role in providing us with evaluative knowledge? Does the existence of evaluative perception tell us anything about the nature of value?

Anna Bergqvist is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the Values-Based Practice Theory Network at St Catherine's College University of Oxford. Her principal research interests are aesthetics and moral philosophy. She is co-editor of Philosophy and Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has also published on aesthetic and moral particularism, narrative, thick evaluative concepts and selected issues inphilosophy of language and mind. Robert Cowan is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His research is focused on ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of mind. In particular he is interestedin the nature and epistemology of intuition, perception, and emotion, as well as the connections between these and accounts of ethical knowledge.

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