• Davies, "Preface: Why Study the Philosophy of Art?" (D pp.vii-viii)
• Neill & Ridley, "Introduction" (NR pp.1-5)
• Richard Lee, "What Is Philosophy of Art" (web)
• Leo Tolstoy, "From What is Art?" (NR pp.506-522)

• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.1 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions" (D pp.26-28)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.2 Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism" (D pp.28-29)
• Morris Weitz, "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics" (NR pp.183-192)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.3 Arguments Against Art's Definition" (D pp.29-32)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.4 If not an Essence, What Unifies the Concept of Art?" (D pp.32-35)
• Maurice Mandelbaum, "Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning the Arts" (NR pp.192-201)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.5.0 Some Definitions of Art: Introduction" (D pp.35-36)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.5.1 Aesthetic Functionalism" (D pp.36-38)
• Richard Eldridge, "Form and Content: An Aesthetic Theory of Art" (NR pp.239-253)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.5.2 The Institutional Theory" (D pp.38-39)
• George Dickie, "The New Institutional Theory of Art" (NR pp.213-223)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.5.3 Historicism" (D pp.39-41)
• Jerrold Levinson, "Defining Art Historically" (NR pp.223-239)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.6 Definitions and Non-Western Art" (D pp.41-42)
• Davies, "Defining Art: 2.7 Taking Stock" (D pp.42-48)
• Linda Nochlin, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (NR pp.551-569)

Aesthetic Appreciation and Properties

2/14 - 3/5

• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.0 Introduction" (D pp.52-53)
• Clive Bell, "The Aesthetic Hypothesis" (NR pp.98-110)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.1.0 Aesethetic and Artistic Properties: Introduction" (D pp.53-55)
• Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts" (NR pp.311-331)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.1.1 An Illustration" (D pp.53-55)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.2 The Aesthetic Attitude and Art for Art's Sake" (D pp.59-60)
• Edward Bullough, "Psychical Distance" (NR pp.297-311)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.3 Aesthetic Theory Criticized" (D pp.60-63)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.4 Artworks the Pose a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory" (D pp.64-68)
• Arthur C. Danto, "The Artworld" (NR pp.201-212)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.5 Art's Contextually Relative Properties" (D pp.68-71)
• Kendall L. Walton, "Categories of Art" (NR pp.331-354)
• Davies, "Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: 3.6 Art For Art's Sake Again" (D pp.71-77)

• R.G. Collingwood, "From The Principles of Art" (NR pp.117-143)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.0 Introduction" (D p.81)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.1 Artworks as Public Items" (D pp.82-84)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.2 Are Artworks Created or Discovered?" (D pp.84-86)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.3 Are All Artworks Potentially Multiple?" (D pp.86-89)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.4 Multiply Instanced Artworks" (D pp.89-92)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.5 New Works Based On Old Ones" (D pp.92-93)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.6 The Ontological Variety of Works of Art" (D pp.94-95)
• Davies, "Varieties of Art: 4.7 Is the Identity of an Artwork Fixed or Evolving?" (D pp.96-104)

Interpreting Art

3/26 - 4/16

• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.0 Introduction" (D pp.109-110)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.1 When Is Interpretation Necessary?" (D pp.110-111)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.2 What Is Interpreted?" (D pp.111-114)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.3 Actual Intentionalism" (D pp.114-119)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.4 Hypothetical Intentionalism" (D pp.119-122)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.5 Value Maximization" (D pp.122-125)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.6 Uses For Interpretation" (D pp.125-126)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.7 Theory Driven Interpetations" (D pp.126-128)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.8 Does Interpretation Change the Work's Meaning?" (D pp.128-130)
• Davies, "Interpretation: 5.9 What is Interpretation's Primary Purpose?" (D pp.130-131)
• W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. & Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy" (NR pp.374-385)
• Jenefer Robinson, "Style and Personality in the Literary Work" (NR pp.431-445)
• Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" (NR pp.457-465)
• E. D. Hirsch, Jr., "In Defense of the Author" (NR pp.390-404)
• Richard Wollheim, "Criticism as Retrieval" (NR pp.404-414)

• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.0 Introduction" (D pp.135-137)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.1 The Nature of Emotions" (D pp.138-140)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.2 Identifying Others' Emotions" (D pp.140-141)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.3 Identifying the Emotions in Art" (D pp.141-143)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.4 The Expression of Emotion in Music and Abstract Art" (D pp.144-152)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.5.0 The Emotional Response of the Audience to the Work of Art: Introduction" (D p.152)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.5.1 Responding to Fictions" (D pp.153-157)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.5.2 Responding to Tragedies" (D pp.157-160)
• Davies, "Expression and Emotional Responses: 6.5.3 Responding to the Expressiveness of Instrumental Music and Abstract Art" (D pp.160-162)

• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.0 Introduction" (D pp.167-168)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.1 The Experience of Representation" (D pp.168-171)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.2 Representation and Resemblance" (D pp.171-173)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.3 Culture and Biology, Again" (D pp.174-175)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.4 Art Versus Non-Art: A Matter of Style" (D pp.175-183)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.5 Representation in Photographs and Paintings" (D pp.183-185)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.6 Photographic Representation" (D pp.185-188)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.7 Photography as Art" (D pp.188-192)
• Davies, "Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts: 7.8 Moving Images" (D pp.192-195)

• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.0 Introduction" (D pp.199-202)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.1 Evaluation and Functionality" (D pp.202-204)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.2 Rules, Universality, and Objectivity in Artistic Evaluation" (D pp.202-207)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.3 The Purpose and Form of Artistic Evaluation" (D pp.208-209)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.4.0 What is Rewarding About the Experience of Art?: Introduction" (D p.209)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.4.1 Value and Pleasure" (D pp.209-213)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.4.2 Art and Education" (D pp.213-217)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.5 Messages Through Art" (D pp.217-219)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.6 The Relation Between Artistic and Moral Values" (D pp.219-221)
• Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Arts in the Life of Man" (NR pp.538-551)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.7 Should a Work's Immorality Undermine Its Claims to Artistic Merit?" (D pp.221-225)
• Davies, "The Value of Art: 8.8 Morality in Documentaries and Fictions" (D pp.225-227)

There will be additional meetings (to be scheduled) for graduate students and interested undergraduate students on readings (such as Plato, Hume, and Kant) and topics not covered in the regular schedule.

This schedule is subject to change.