The questions addressed in the volume can be summarized in the following three headings: What is beauty? What is beautiful? How does the value of beauty relate to other aesthetical values? Die Themen, die in dem Band behandelt werden, orientieren sich an den folgenden drei Fragen: Was ist Schönheit? Von welchen (Arten von) Gegenständen können wir sagen, dass sie schön seien? Wie verhält sich der Wert der Schönheit zu anderen ästhetischen Werten?

Contributors’ Biographies In alphabetic order María José Alcaraz León is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy (Universidad de Murcia) since 2009. Her research centres on aesthetics and art theory. After obtaining her PhD, with a dissertation on A. Danto’s definition of art, she was awarded a postdoc, which she spent at the University of Sheffield (UK). She has specially focused on the nature of aesthetic justification and rationality, the relationship between aesthetics and other values and on the cognitive value of fiction. Her areas of competence are Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts. Hanne Appelqvist is Docent of Theoretical Philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Turku, the Editor-in-Chief of Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, and currently works as the Deputy Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is the editor of Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language (Routledge) and author of several articles on Wittgenstein’s philosophy and aesthetics. Allen Carlson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His research interests include aesthetics and environmental philosophy. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture (Routledge 2000) and Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics (Columbia 2009), as well as, with Glenn Parsons, Functional Beauty (Oxford 2008). He has also co-edited several anthologies, including, with Sheila Lintott, Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty (Columbia 2008). Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written over fifteen books, most recently Humour: A Very Short Introduction. He has been a journalist and has written five documentaries. Davide Dal Sasso is Postdoctoral research fellow in Philosophy at University of Turin, Italy. He holds two Master’s degrees, in Philosophy and Art History and he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Turin in 2017. He is a member of Labont - Center for Ontology and curator of Dialoghi di Estetica, the section of philosophy and art published in the magazine “Artribune.” His research is focused on the relationship between philosophy, aesthetics, and contemporary art, with a particular interest in questions concerning conceptualism and the role of practices in arts. He is the editor of the new edition of Ermanno Migliorini, Conceptual Art (Mimesis, Milano 2014). Stephen Davies teaches philosophy at the University of Auckland. His books include The Artful Species (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Philosophy of Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, 2nd ed.) and Adornment: What Self-Decoration tells us about Who We Are (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics. Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He has published widely in aesthetics, philosophy of literature, German Idealism, Romanticism, and Wittgenstein, including, most recently Werner Herzog––Filmmaker and Philosopher (2019) and Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject (2016). He is the series editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature. John Gibson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Commonwealth Center for Humanities at the University of Louisville. His writes on topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and he is particularly concerned with connections between these areas and central issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of the self. He is the author of Fiction and the Weave of Life (Oxford, 2008), editor of The Philosophy of Poetry (Oxford, 2015), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature (2015), Narrative, Emotion and Insight (Penn State, 2011), A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (Routledge, 2007), and The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004). He is currently completing a book titled Poetry, Metaphor & Nonsense: An Essay on Meaning. Wolfgang Huemer teaches philosophy at the University of Parma. His research focuses mainly on the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language as well as on the relation between early analytic philosophy and early phenomenology. He is author of The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor of The Literary Wittgenstein (with John Gibson; Routledge 2004), A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge (with John Gibson and Luca Pocci; Routledge 2007), Kunst denken (with Alex Burri, mentis 2007) and several other volumes. Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and was formerly Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He works principally in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature. His books include Truth, Fiction, and Literature (with Stein Haugom Olsen); Fictional Points of View; The Philosophy of Literature; Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art; and The Opacity of Narrative. Catrin Misselhorn is professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. 2012-2019 she held the chair for the Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. Prior she was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the University of Zürich, and the University of Tübingen. In 2003 she received her PhD at the University of Tübingen, in 2010 she finished her habilitation. 2007-2008 she was Feodor Lynen research fellow at the Center of Affective Sciences in Geneva, the Collège de France and the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. Otto Neumaier (born 1951) was Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria (retired 2017). His main areas of interest are Ethics with a focus on problems of moral responsibility, Aesthetics, in particular the theoretical foundation of that discipline, and Philosophical Anthropology. His publications include Mind, Language and Society (ed., 1984), Vom Ende der Kunst. Ästhetische Versuche (1997), Applied Ethics in a Troubled World (co-ed., 1998), Ästhetische Gegenstände (1999), Moralische Verantwortung (2008), Facing Tragedies (co-ed. 2009), Outsider Art (co-ed. 2017), and Metamorphoses of the Absolute (co-ed. 2018). Maria Elisabeth Reicher, born in 1966, studied philosophy at the University of Graz. PhD at the University of Graz in 1998, Habilitation at the University of Graz in 2004. Professor of Philosophy at the RWTH Aachen University since 2009. Main fields of research: metaphysics, philosophy of logic, aesthetics. Elisabeth Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at Uppsala University and Honorary Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. She is Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics and Principal Investigator for the research project “Aesthetic Perception and Aesthetic Cognition”. Her research interests include aesthetic normativity, non-perceptual beauty, conceptual art, and the relations between aesthetic, moral and epistemic value. Lisa Schmalzried is Private Lecturer (Privatdozentin) for philosophy at the University Lucerne. She wrote her habilitation thesis about the topic “Human beauty”. Currently, she is the academic head of the doctoral program “Ethics and Responsible Leadership” and a research associate at the Wittenberg Center for Global ethics. Her research mainly focuses on aesthetics, moral philosophy, and applied ethics. Sonia Sedivy is Associate Professor in the Department Philosophy, University of Toronto Scarborough and the Graduate Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on perception, aesthetics and the later work of Wittgenstein. Her recent book, Beauty and the End of Art: Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception (Bloomsbury, 2016) shows how all three areas can work together to offer new approaches to art and beauty. She is currently editing Art, Representation and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton (Routledge) and writing a book on perception that shows the pivotal role of argumentation in aesthetics, Perception, Understanding and Aesthetics. Íngrid Vendrell Ferran teaches Philosophy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Heisenberg-position). Her research interests are phenomenology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics and epistemology. Some of her publications include: Die Emotionen (Akademie 2008); Wahrheit, Wissen und Erkenntnis in der Literatur (ed. with Christoph Demmerling, De Gruyter 2014); Empathie im Film (ed. with Malte Hagener, Transcript 2017); and Die Vielfalt der Erkenntnis (Mentis 2018).

Table of Contents Introduction WOLFGANG HUEMER AND ÍNGRID VENDRELL FERRAN 7 Beauty and Aesthetic Properties: Taking Inspiration from Kant SONIA SEDIVY 25 Beauty and Rules: Kant and Wittgenstein on the Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics HANNE APPELQVIST 43 Challenging the Notion of Intelligible Beauty ELISABETH SCHELLEKENS 71 Non-Sensory Beauty and Meaning Qualia MARIA ELISABETH REICHER 91 Beauty and the Agential Dimension of the Judgment of Taste MARÍA JOSÉ ALCARAZ LEÓN 123 Beauty and Bell’s Aesthetic Emotion CATRIN MISSELHORN 145 Art, Beauty, and Criticism NOËL CARROLL 171 The Value of Art: On Meaning and Aesthetic Experience in Difficult Modern Art RICHARD ELDRIDGE 185 The Beauty of Doing: Remarks on the Appreciation of Conceptual Art DAVIDE DAL SASSO 209 The Case Against Beauty OTTO NEUMAIER 243 An Aesthetics of Insight JOHN GIBSON 277 Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Poetry PETER LAMARQUE 307 The Beauty of Landscape ALLEN CARLSON 331 The Virtue Analysis of Inner Beauty: Inner Beauty as Moral, Eudaimonistic, or Relational Virtueness LISA KATHARIN SCHMALZRIED 353 Cosmetics and Makeup STEPHEN DAVIES 393 The Contributors to this Volume 413 Abstracts 419 Index