TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints7591
UR  - http://cogprints.org/7591/
A1  - Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.
Y1  - 2008///
N2  - So the central question here is phenomenological: What is the nature of the aesthetic zap? For it is this experience, or its promise, which gives art such a deep hold on human life. But the issue of representation, while secondary, is still pregnant with cognitive implications: Why is representation, of all the devices available to an artist, more likely to shift the odds in favour of eliciting and/or intensifying aesthetic experience? Assuming a Darwinian view of our species, it is likely that the answer to both questions will come from understanding how our capacity to enjoy art grows out of normal cognition.
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  -  Feeling of Knowing
KW  -  Fringe
KW  -  Rightness
KW  -  Structure of Consciousness
KW  -  William James

TI  - Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe
SP  - 75
AV  - public
EP  - 82
ER  -

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