Art Seeking Understanding: Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches

A groundbreaking volume that brings together art, philosophy, theology, and the sciences to explore a new research area: art seeking understanding

In this cutting-edge collection, scholars working in the fields of philosophical aesthetics, religious and theological aesthetics, and empirical and neuroaesthetics come together to investigate aesthetic cognitivism, a theory about the value of the arts. According to this theory, art isn’t merely a source of delight, amusement, pleasure, or emoti...