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Externalist theories of aesthetic experience have become ... — Carmelics

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

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1.Internalist theories predominated during the early and middle parts of the 20th century
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2.Externalist theories, including those of Beardsley (1982) and Dickie (1988), have been in the ascendance since then
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1.Phenomenological accounts of aesthetic experience (Merleau-Ponty, Ingarden) remain actively defended and constitute a robust internalist tradition through the late 20th century.
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2.The continued influence of Kant's internalist framework on contemporary aesthetics (e.g., Guyer, Allison) demonstrates that internalism was never displaced as dominant.
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1.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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2.If the externalist/internalist boundary is drawn differently than the argument assumes, the historical narrative of externalist dominance collapses into a taxonomic artifact rather than a substantive philosophical shift.
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Theories of aesthetic experience may be divided into two kinds according to the kind of feature appealed to in explanation of what makes experience aesthetic: internalist theories appeal to features internal to experience, typically to phenomenological features, whereas externalist theories appeal to features external to the experience, typically to features of the object experienced. (The distinction between internalist and externalist theories of aesthetic experience is similar, though not ide

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