Abstract

The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended. In this article, I aim to demonstrate that even if it is sometimes true that a supervenience relation holds between aesthetic properties and ‘subvenient’ non-aesthetic ones, it is not the interesting relation in the neighbourhood. As we shall see, a richer, asymmetric, and irreflexive relation is required, and I shall defend the claim that the increasingly popular relation of grounding does amuch better job than supervenience.

Highlights

  • The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended

  • I aim to demonstrate that even if it is sometimes true that a supervenience relation holds between aesthetic properties and ‘subvenient’ non-aesthetic ones, it is not the interesting relation in the neighbourhood

  • I aim to show that even if it is sometimes true that a supervenience relation holds between aesthetic properties and the ‘subvenient’ non-aesthetic ones, it is not the interesting relation in the neighbourhood

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Summary

Introduction

The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended. For instance, defends this claim,3 and so does, famously, Levinson: ‘aesthetic attributes of an object are supervenient on its non-aesthetic ones.

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