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EXPRESSIVENESS - MARTA BENENTI GEBUNDEN

A natural landscape can look serene  a shade of colour cheerful and a piece of music might
sound heartrending. Why do we ascribe affective qualities to objects that can't entertain
psychological states? The capacity that objects  and especially artworks  have to express
affective states is a bizarre phenomenon that needs to be clarified in numerous respects.
Philosophers are still struggling with the phenomenon of expressiveness being a matter of
imagination  perception  or mnemonic association  and usually do not agree on the role that
emotions and human bodily expressions play in it. Benenti questions the main theories that
populate the aesthetics domain using the tools of philosophy of mind. This study deals with
crucial debates concerning seeing-in  cognitive penetration  the relation between phenomenal
character and representational content and between emotions and expressions. It aims at
providing a viable account of the experience we have of expressive properties by casting light
on its fundamentally perceptual nature. The outcome is an empirically informed and critical
overview of a topic which has been rather neglected in the philosophy of mind. The book will be
of interest to scholars of the philosophy of mind  aesthetics  the cognitive sciences  and
psychology.

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