title: Questioning the necessity of the aesthetic modes.
abstract: I question both the necessity and the sufficiency of Bullot & Reber's (B&R's) aesthetic modes. I argue that they have not shown how the aesthetic modes are truly "aesthetic" - how they concern our experience of artworks as opposed to other kinds of experiences or why the modes are individually necessary for one. I suggest the causal dependence of the modes should be modified.
authors.affiliation: The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Philosophy & Cognitive Science, New York, NY 10016, USA. ktullmann@gc.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tullmann
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*