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PHILOSOPHY
Aesthetic Judgments – Agree or Disagree?
MARCIA EATON earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and has spent her career investigating questions of aesthetics and ethics. A Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota, Eaton has written extensively on these topics. She has been a visiting scholar in Europe and China and was a Fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy.
She returns to the Phil with two new Lifelong Learning lectures focused on the question: Are matters of taste disputable?
How many times have you heard people say that there is no accounting for taste? Or heard others insist that one person’s aesthetic preferences aren’t any better than someone else’s? Are you inclined to agree or disagree with either of these views?
March 7: Immanuel Kant
Kant did not believe that judgments of taste are true or false; they are neither, he thought. But he did try to prove that some aesthetic judgments must be granted universal acceptance. How can this be the case? Eaton will try to make sense of his complex position and, with you, determine how convincing he is.