ch. 1: Introduction to the philosophy of art. What is philosophy? ; Philosophy of art and aesthetics
ch 2: The nature of art. Defining art ; Antiessentialism ; Morris Weitz, "The role of theory in aesthetics" ; Redefining art ; Jerrold Levinson, "Defining art historically" ; Art and experience ; John Dewey, selections from Art as experience
ch. 3. The artwork. The uniqueness of art ; Joseph Margolis, "The ontological peculiarity of works of art" ; Artworks and aesthetics ; Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic concepts" ; Form versus content or context ; Clive Bell, "Art and significant form"
ch. 4. The artist. Intention ; Representation ; E.H. Gombrich, "Truth and the stereotype" ; Expression ; R.G. Collingwood, selections from Principles of art ; Change ; Anne Bogart, introduction to And then, you act
ch. 5. The audience. David E.W. Fenner, "Aesthetic experience and aesthetic analysis" ; Aesthetic interpretation ; Richard Wollheim, "Criticism as retrieval" ; Aesthetic criticism ; Monroe C. Beardsley, "The classification of critical reasons"
ch. 6. Relationships between art and society: ethics, education, culture. Art and values ; Berys Gaut, "The ethical criticism of art" ; Aesthetics (and) education ; Maxine Greene, "The artistic-aesthetic curriculum" ; Aesthetics and culture ; Clifford Geertz, "Art as a cultural system"
ch. 7. Relationships between art and science: method, understanding, knowledge. Relations of art and science ; Howard Gardner, selections from The arts and human development ; Art, science, and understanding ; Nelson Goodman, "Art and the understanding" ; Art and knowledge ; John W. Bender, "Art as a source of knowledge"
ch. 8. Performing arts. Dance ; Francis Sparshott, "The identity of a dance" ; Theater ; David Z. Saltz, "How to do things on stage" ; Music ; Peter Kivy, "The other authenticity"
ch. 9. Visual arts. Painting ; Clement Greenberg, "Modernist painting" ; Photography ; Kendall L. Walton, "Transparent pictures" ; Architecture ; Roger Scruton, "The problem of architecture"
ch. 10. Literary arts. Fiction ; Christopher New, "Fiction" ; Poetry ; Harvey Gross, "Prosody as rhythmic cognition" ; Creative nonfiction ; Robert L. Root Jr. and Michael Steinberg, "Creative nonfiction, the fourth genre."
