Dove e quando

Talk by Thomas Adajian (James Madison University)

ABSTRACT
Artistic value pluralism (AVP) holds that artistic value lacks substantive unity, being only the aggregate or disjunction of pictorial value, musical value, literary value, etc., not their common denominator. (Pluralism about F holds that F is many and not one.  Extreme monism: F is one but not many. Moderate monism: F is both one and many. Nihilism/eliminativism: F is neither one nor many.  Other Fs in aesthetics: beauty, visual beauty, art, aesthetic experience, etc.) This  paper raises some objections to AVP, which seem to apply to all pluralisms; examines some arguments against AVP, which appeal to different conceptions of artistic value, or to its diversity; and suggests some considerations favoring moderate monism.