title: Context, causality, and appreciation.
abstract: I applaud and elaborate on the contextualism at the heart of Bullot & Reber's (B&R's) theory, challenge two aspects of the appreciative structure they posit (the causal reasoning that allegedly underlies the design stance and the segregation of the component stages), suggest that expert and novice appreciators operate differently, and question the degree to which B&R's final theory is open to empirical investigation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA. sross@umsl.edu
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*