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    The attitude theorist is not committed to thinking that t... — Carmelics
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    The attitude theorist is not committed to thinking that the impresario is attending to the performance

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    • 1.The impresario is clearly not attending to the performance
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    • 2.The attitude theorist's position does not require claiming that all spectators present are attending to the performance
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    • 1.Attitude theories (Bullough, Stolnitz) define aesthetic experience by the subject's mode of attention, not merely their physical presence.
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    • 2.If attitude theory cannot distinguish the impresario's stance from genuine aesthetic attendance, it lacks the discriminatory power its proponents claim.
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    • 3.A theory that is not committed to identifying who is attending fails to explain what aesthetic attitude actually selects or excludes.
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    • 1.Dickie's institutional critique of attitude theory argues that 'aesthetic attitude' is an empty honorific applied post-hoc to ordinary attention.
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    • 2.If the attitude theorist need not specify whether the impresario attends, the concept of aesthetic attitude becomes unfalsifiable and explanatorily vacuous.
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    The attitude theorist, however, can plausibly resist Dickie’s interpretation of such examples. Clearly the impresario is not attending to the performance, but there is no reason to regard the attitude theorist as committed to thinking otherwise. As for the others, it might be argued that they are all attending. The jealous husband must be attending to the performance, since it is the action of the play, as presented by the performance, that is making him suspicious. The proud father must be atte
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