Papers by Emine Hande Tuna
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2024
This article examines Bolzano's aesthetic cognitivism. It argues that, while reminiscent of Germa... more This article examines Bolzano's aesthetic cognitivism. It argues that, while reminiscent of German rationalist aesthetics and hence potentially appearing rigid and outdated, Bolzano's version of cognitivism is, in fact, highly innovative and more flexible than the cognitivism championed by the rationalists. He imports from the rationalists the idea that aesthetic appreciation and creation are rule-governed, yet does not construe rule-following and engaging in free aesthetic activities as mutually exclusive. Furthermore, thanks to his nuanced treatment of the interaction between aesthetic values and other types of values, Bolzano's aesthetic cognitivism presents a fresh alternative to contemporary versions of aesthetic cognitivism.
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Analysis, 2024
While reading Explaining Imagination, I can’t help but imagine that imagination is on trial. I se... more While reading Explaining Imagination, I can’t help but imagine that imagination is on trial. I see Peter Langland-Hassan as presenting a compelling case against those who regard imagination as a sui generis mental state. His strategy is to demonstrate the possibility of reducing imagination to basic folk psychological states, such as belief, judgment, decision, intention, and desire, much in the way that suspecting, being thankful, or regretting can be reduced. Through a meticulous analysis of various activities associated with imagination, such as daydreaming, conditional reasoning, pretense, consuming fiction, and creativity, he illustrates that these activities can be explained without invoking a primitive mental state of imagining. Instead, they can be attributed to other, more general, folk psychological notions....
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European Journal of Philosophy, 2024
The topic of imaginative resistance attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent year... more The topic of imaginative resistance attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent years. Yet, with a few exceptions, no historical investigation of the phenomenon has been carried out. This paper amends this gap in the literature by constructing a Humean and a Kantian explanation. The main contributions of this historical analysis to this debate are to make room for emotions in explanations of resistance reactions and to upset the polarization between rival accounts by suggesting that our possible responses to morally flawed works can vary. In some cases, we resist imagining counter-evaluative claims due to our unwillingness to do so, and in others, due to our inability.
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Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, 2024
This paper applies the account developed by Susanna Siegel in The Rationality of Perception to ae... more This paper applies the account developed by Susanna Siegel in The Rationality of Perception to aesthetic cases and explores the implications of such an account for aesthetic engagement as well as curatorial and exhibitionary practices. It argues that one’s prior outlook – expertise, beliefs, desires, fears, preferences, attitudes – can have both aesthetically good and bad influences on perceptual experiences, just as it can have both epistemically good and bad influences. Analysing these bad influences in cases of ‘hijacked’ aesthetic perception will reveal that, unless we recognize that our perception of high-level and low-level aesthetically relevant properties is norm-governed, we will be at a loss to explain what goes wrong in these cases. Just as perception can be rational or irrational, so too can it be apt or inapt.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2020
The phenomenon of “imaginative resistance” refers to psychological difficulties otherwise compete... more The phenomenon of “imaginative resistance” refers to psychological difficulties otherwise competent imaginers experience when engaging in particular imaginative activities prompted by works of fiction. Usually, we seem to have no trouble engaging with time-travel or space-exploration stories, superhero movies, or talking non-human animal fables. At other times, we do not seem to be able to play along that easily; for instance, when we are presented with an alternative Macbeth where...
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2018
Two dominant interpretations of Kant's notion of adherent beauty, the conjunctive view and the in... more Two dominant interpretations of Kant's notion of adherent beauty, the conjunctive view and the incorporation view, provide an account of how to form informed aesthetic assessments concerning artworks. According to both accounts, judgments of perfection play a crucial role in making informed, although impure, judgments of taste. These accounts only examine aesthetic responses to objects that meet or fail to meet the expectations we have regarding what they ought to be. I demonstrate that Kant's works of genius do not fall within either of these categories. The distinguishing features of these works, namely, originality and exemplarity, become unrecognizable on these interpretations because originality and exemplarity lie in the work's ability to exceed one's expectations concerning its form and content. They contribute to artistic beauty through alternative transformation methods distinct from that of abstraction, namely, concept expansion and repudiation. These additional accounts of transformation lead to a rather surprising outcome: works of genius turn out to be paradigm cases where one can and indeed ought to form informed pure judgments of taste.
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Southwest Philosophy Review, 2019
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2016
Noël Carroll proposes a successful generalist theory of art criticism, which essentially involves... more Noël Carroll proposes a successful generalist theory of art criticism, which essentially involves evaluations of artworks on the basis of their success value, at the cost of rendering evaluations of reception value irrelevant to criticism. In this paper, I argue for a hybrid account of art criticism, which incorporates Carroll’s objective model but puts Carroll-type evaluations in the service of evaluations of artworks’ reception value. I argue that this hybrid model is motivated by Kant’s theory of taste. Hence, I not only present an alternative theory of metacriticism, which has the merit of reinstating the centrality of reception value in art critics’ evaluations, but also show that, contrary to a common conception, Kant’s aesthetic theory can house a fruitful account of art criticism. The benefit of this hybrid account is that, despite being essentially particularist, it should be appealing even to hard-to-satisfy generalists like Carroll himself.
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Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 2015, eds.Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing (Berlin: De Gruyter), 2018
In this paper, in answering the question why Kant didn’t think very highly of music, I argue that... more In this paper, in answering the question why Kant didn’t think very highly of music, I argue that for Kant (i) music unlike other art forms, lends itself more easily to combination judgments involving judgments of sense, which increases the propensity to make aesthetic mistakes and is ill-suited as an activity for improving one’s taste; (ii) music expresses aesthetic ideas and presents rational ideas only by taking advantage of existing associations while other art forms do so by breaking with the laws of association and creating new associations. I propose that (ii) constitutes the reason why music is not a rich source for reflection and thereby cannot stimulate the enlargement of the cognitive faculties. Given that the standard Kant uses in setting up the hierarchy of fine arts in terms of their cultivating role is the enlargement of cognitive faculties, this explains why music is placed at the bottom of his hierarchy.
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Journal for Cultural Research, 2014
My aim in this paper is to expose a misrepresentation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s ideas on community in t... more My aim in this paper is to expose a misrepresentation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s ideas on community in the secondary literature. I argue that discussions of Nancy’s work have failed to recognize a transformation that has occurred in his later thought, which distances him from Jacques Derrida. I propose that Nancy’s later work points the way beyond the “persistence of unhappy consciousness” in deconstruction through allowing for the possibility of the creation of a world alternative to globalization. Recognition of this transformation is suggestive for how Nancy’s theoretical framework might be employed in analyses of recent resistance movements.
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Book Reviews by Emine Hande Tuna
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2018
Books on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment usually fall into one of the following sorts: (... more Books on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment usually fall into one of the following sorts: (1) introductions, (2) in-depth companions, (3) scholarly work offering specific interpretations of certain aspects of the book. Where does Michel Chaouli's book fit within this taxonomy? Reading the preface and the first few dozen pages, one gets the impression that...
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University of Toronto Quarterly, 2014
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