Aesthetics 
S06, S07
Karen Gover
What is beauty? How does it relate to truth? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. Our readings will be organized along two axes: the history of philosophy and artistic genre. That is, this course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also study philosophical writing on particular artistic genres, such as painting, poetry, music, and film.