Aesthetic Experience (Content View and Appreciation View) and the Paradox of Fiction

A. Aesthetic Experience: Content View and Appreciation View

1. Motivating the Content View: Carroll's objections to the Valuing View

• The problem of merely intrinsic evaluation of experience
• The problem of negative aesthetic experiences
• The problem of aesthetic education
• The problem of sufficiency: sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll

2. The Content View: Carroll

• What is the Content View?
• Advantages towards the Valuing View
• Unity
• Beyond fine arts
• Morality and aesthetic experience
• Problems for the Content View: Sufficiency (Levinson)

3. Aesthetic Appreciation: Levinson and Robinson's views

Summary: What are we talking about?

B. The Paradox of Fiction: Introduction

• What is the Paradox of Fiction?
• Motivating the three ideas
• The Belief Requirement
• Descriptive vs. Normative challenge