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    It is not the case that Externalist theories of aesthetic experience have become dominant since the mid-20th century

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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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    • 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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