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    Beardsley's account of aesthetic experience is inadequate. — Carmelics
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    Beardsley's account of aesthetic experience is inadequate.

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    • 1.Beardsley's account presupposes a unified phenomenological 'feel' to aesthetic experience, but Wittgenstein's family resemblance concept shows no single experiential thread need connect all aesthetic encounters.
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    • 2.Monroe Beardsley himself revised his account across editions, conceding instability in the criteria, which undermines any claim that unity, intensity, and complexity form a robust theoretical foundation.
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    • 3.If the defining features require constant revision to accommodate counterexamples, the account lacks the explanatory stability required of a genuine philosophical theory of aesthetic experience.
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    • 1.Dewey's naturalistic aesthetics in 'Art as Experience' grounds aesthetic quality in the consummatory structure of lived experience broadly, not in isolable formal features like Beardsley's triad.
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    • 2.Beardsley's formalist bias toward object-focused criteria systematically excludes relational, contextual, and performative dimensions that theorists from Danto to Carroll identify as constitutive of aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.An account that cannot accommodate the aesthetic dimensions of improvisation, participatory art, or everyday aesthetics fails to capture the full extension of the concept it purports to define.
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    • 1.Beardsley claimed unity, intensity, and complexity are distinguishing features of aesthetic experience.
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    • 2.Even if the problems of characterizing these three features were resolved, it would not be plausible that they are necessary or sufficient conditions of aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.Dickie's objections, where not beside the point, correctly identified that the three Beardsleyian features fail as necessary conditions.
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    As noted in Section 2.4, Beardsley claimed, heroically, that aesthetic experience is distinguished by its unity, intensity and complexity. Dickie argued, in reply, that such characteristics were either not plausibly necessary conditions of aesthetic experience, or else that Beardsley’s description of them was inadequate. Part of Dickie’s attack was completely beside the point, since he confused aesthetic experiences with the experiences of works of art; the fact that some experiences of works of
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