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    Challenges→Externalist theories of aesthetic experience have become dominant since the mid-20th century

    Beardsley's later work (1982) retains a phenomenological core focused on the subject's felt unity of experience, making its classification as 'externalist' contestable.

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    • 1.Beardsley's emphasis on 'felt unity of experience' explicitly centers phenomenological consciousness, not external world properties.
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    • 2.A theory retaining phenomenological core prioritizes subjective experience over environmental conditions, which defines internalism.
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    • 3.Externalism requires constitutive dependence on external factors; mere acknowledgment of them doesn't entail this dependence.
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    • 1.Beardsley's 1982 work integrates aesthetic properties as relational between perceiver and object, fundamentally externalist in structure.
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    • 2.Phenomenological description of experience is compatible with externalism if that experience constitutively depends on external conditions.
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    • 3.Calling something's classification 'contestable' acknowledges strong externalist readings exist, undermining the claim's force.
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