Dr Dawn Wilson Dawn.Wilson@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Philosophy
It has been argued that photographs are unsuitable or inferior candidates for art because they are not intimately bound to the mind of an artist. I believe that we can address scepticism in the philosophy of art only if we recognise that it is linked to dogmatism in the epistemology of photography. This is the motivation for the present article. I argue that the epistemic debate is dogmatic when mind-independence is treated as a defining feature of photographs. I argue for a better understanding of the photographic process, and show how with this mind-independence need not be a defining feature of photographs.
Wilson, D. (2009). Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs. Postgraduate journal of aesthetics, 6(2), 1-22
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2009-08 |
Deposit Date | Nov 13, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 13, 2014 |
Journal | Postgraduate journal of aesthetics |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 1-22 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/465180 |
Publisher URL | http://www.pjaesthetics.org/index.php/pjaesthetics/article/view/79 |
Additional Information | Copy of article first published in: Postgraduate journal of aesthetics, 2009, v.6, issue 2. |
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