Abstract
Abstract This chapter refutes the emotion-versus-reason polarity at the basis of the claim that the strong emotional charge of the human sense of smell means it lacks cognitive power to make rationally informed aesthetic judgments. The first half of the chapter shows that the emotions themselves often have a cognitive component and that a robust cognition often requires an emotional aspect to operate effectively. The second half of the chapter shows that aesthetic experience and judgment also have an indispensable affective as well as cognitive aspect, so that smell’s strong emotional charge is not per se an impediment to its participation in reflective aesthetic experiences and judgments. The chapter closes with the account of a smell experience by Oliver Sacks.
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