A critical survey of recent work in epistemology on higher-order evidence. It discusses the
nature of higher-order evidence, some puzzles it raises, responses to those puzzles, and …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

Children in all cultures readily engage in artistic activities, yet the arts (dance, drama,
drawing, and music) have traditionally been marginal topics in the discipline of …

Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with
art, beauty, and related phenomena. Philosophers have often been skeptical about the …

Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural
practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has …

Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge
theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural …

In the past decade, experimental philosophy–the attempt at making progress on
philosophical problems using empirical methods–has thrived in a wide range of domains …

Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called'the prison house of language'-the
widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it comes to articulating the rich …

Suspense is a main form of absorption into stories, and it is intuitive that suspense in movies
increases enjoyment. However, there is not a significant amount of empirical work …

1. Background Writers on aesthetics in the empiricist tradition such as Shaftsbury, Hume,
and Reid thought of their contributions as broadly empirical (see Shelley 2006 [2020]), and …