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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nelson Goodman"”.
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Reconstructing Paradigms of Expression
… R. G. Collingwood, Suzanne Langer, and Nelson Goodman are cited to support ideas discussed in this paper. In addition, the aesthetic theories of Expressionism and Cognitivism are also discussed as an underlying correlation between the images in my thesis exhibition.
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Other means of communication
… Oxford University Press, 1972), 55-91 and Nelson Goodman, "When Is Art?" in The Arts and Cognition, ed. David Perkins and Barbara Leondar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977): 11; "Art in the Garden," pgs. 21-34 (I-- H------- F-----), see also Yale Union, "A series of I-- …
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
… and literary theorists such as Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman and Satya P. Mohanty. These writers emphasize the rational and affective nature of our aesthetic experience and our aesthetic values and judgments, and propose a sophisticated account of objectivity by reexamining the actual nature of …
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The metaphysics of dispositions
As Nelson Goodman put it, things are full of threats and promises. A fragile glass, for example, is prone to shatter when struck. Fragility is the glass's disposition, shattering is the manifestation of the disposition, and striking is the circumstances of manifestation. The properties of a fragile …
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Interpreting a contemporary urban vernacular for cities : --the case of Delhi
… by the processes of control and change. As Nelson Goodman notes,' ... knowing cannot be exclusively or even primarily a matter of determining what is true. Discovery often amounts to finding a fit.' He goes on to add that this fit is a result not of belief but of the advancement of …
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Conceptual expression and depictive opacity: Changing attitudes towards architectural drawings between 1960 and 1990
This dissertation is a study of a remarkable change that came about in the kind of drawings that architects used to present their work between the decades of 1960 and 1990. Drawings in this period, visually rich and compositionally complex, seemed to mark an entirely new sensibility towards their …