British Journal of Aesthetics

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Aesthetics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Portraits, Facial Perception, and Aspect-Seeing16
Philosophy of Music: A History15
Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition11
‘Ad Reinhardt: “Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else”’, Fundación Juan March10
(What) Do We Owe Beautiful Objects? A Case for Aesthetic Obligations9
Examining Hypothetical Intentionalism9
Of Pots and Plato’s Aesthetics7
Feeling Fit for Function: Haptic Touch and Aesthetic Experience7
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics4
The Heart of Classical Work-Performance4
Correction Erratum to: Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life4
Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be4
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly3
Wonderful Worlds: Disinterested Engagement and Environmental Aesthetic Appreciation3
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night3
The Normative Space of Musical Performance: Expertise and the Symbolic Body3
Bolzano on aesthetic normativity3
Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World3
Reply to Abell’s and Currie’s comments on Gilmore’sApt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind3
Kant’s Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life3
A Fitting-Attitude Approach to Aesthetic Value?3
Musical Affordances and the Transformation Into Structure: How Gadamer can Complement Enactivist Perspectives on Music3
Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece3
Double-Standard Moralism: Why We Can Be More Permissive Within Our Imagination2
Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste2
‘Her Fresh Voice’: Reparatively Staging Puccini’s Turandot with Andrea Dworkin2
On Perspectivism and Expressivism: A Reply to Ted Nannicelli2
‘Truth in Fiction’ Reprised2
Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life2
Asteroids, Holoblack and Clearance Futurism2
Aesthetic Testimony and Aesthetic Authenticity2
Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media2
Elusive Fictional Truth2
Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics2
Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art: Essays2
In Defence of the Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art: A Reply to James Harold2
Aesthetic Insight and Mental Agency2
Poetry, painting, park. Goethe and Claude Lorrain2
Distant Dinosaurs and the Aesthetics of Remote Art2
Art and Ethico-Political Value2
Camus’s ‘The Plague’: Philosophical Perspectives1
Immoralism is Obviously True: Towards Progress on the Ethical Question1
Popular Song and Ethics: Ethical Perspectives and Personal Qualities1
Voice, Rhyme, and Aesthetic Injustice1
Visual Metaphors1
Sounding Sense and Sensing Sound: ‘Form-Content Unity’ Revisited and Reformulated1
Classics in Western Philosophy of Art1
Positive Garden Aesthetics1
The dualist character of a garden’s aesthetic properties1
From Period Eye to Niche Eye: Re-situating Renaissance Painting in a Landscape of Affordances1
The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-Figurative Images and the Modern World1
The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are1
Art, Ethics, and the Relativism of Distance1
Interpreting Art1
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death1
Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law1
Immoral Artists and Our Aesthetic Projects: Commentary on Mary Beth Willard’sWhy It’s OK to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists1
Philosophy of Lyric Voice: The Cognitive Value of Page and Performance Poetry1
On the Deeply Moving and the Merely Touching1
Art, Borders and Belonging1
Fictional reference: How to Account for both Directedness and Uniformity1
The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy1
Environmental Virtue Aesthetics1
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude1
Remote Art and Aesthetics: An Introduction1
The Aesthetics of Crossword Puzzles1
Against Moral-Aesthetic Prescriptivism: Rejecting the Foundations of the Moralism Versus Immoralism Debate1
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770–19001
Country Music and the Problem of Authenticity1
Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism1
The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World1
Does the Critical Scrutiny of Drill Constitute an Epistemic Injustice?1
Definition of Fiction: State of the Art1
If These Apples Should Fall. Cézanne and the Present0
Fiction versus Pretence0
Books Received0
Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige0
Tragedy as a Symbol of Autonomy in Schiller’s Aesthetics0
Structures of Morality and Allegiance in the Character Arc Story0
Questioning Imaginative Resistance and Resistant Reading0
Theme Issue ‘Art, Aesthetics and Predictive Processing: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives’0
Screen stories and moral understanding: Interdisciplinary perspectives0
Narrative Identity and Recognition Deficiency0
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto0
Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches0
Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel0
Alternative Realities0
The Qua Problem in the Value Interaction Debate0
Kant’s Humorous Writings0
How to Do (Im)moral Things with Artworks: Commentary on James Harold’s Dangerous Art0
The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design0
How Museums and Arts Institutions Can Deal With the Problem of Immoral Artists: A Reply to Mary Beth Willard0
Hooked: Art and Attachment0
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies0
Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance0
Taste: A Philosophy of Food0
Aesthetic Non-Naturalism0
Xiang 象 as a Dynamic Perceptual Framework: Bridging Sensory Experience and Aesthetic Meaning0
Aesthetic Higher-Order Evidence for Subjectivists0
Value Pluralism in Restoration Aesthetics0
The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality0
Record Collecting as a Focal Practice: The Aesthetics and Sociality of Music Formats0
Tool, Collaborator, or Participant: AI and Artistic Agency0
Culture, Cooperation, and Communication: The Co-evolution of Hominin Cognition, Sociality, and Musicality0
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life: Methodologies, History and New Directions0
The Dissonance of Modernity: On Baudelaire and Adorno0
Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value0
Why Delight in Screamed Vocals? Emotional Hardcore and the Case Against Beautifying Pain0
Towards a Pragmatist Aesthetics0
An Analytic of Eeriness0
Why Follow the Score? Aesthetic Normativity in Performing Classical Music and the Genuine Performing Experience0
Productive Disagreements: Commentary on Ted Nannicelli’sArtistic Creation and Ethical Criticism0
Institutional Responsibility and Aesthetic Value: Commentary on Erich Hatala Matthes’s Drawing The Line: What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies0
Absolutes and Ambiguity: Transforming Artefacts Towards Non-violence0
Musical Ontology: Works, Versions, and Lineages0
Aesthetic Reasons, Aesthetic Value, and the Myth of the Aesthetic Meritocracy: A Reply to Erich Hatala Matthes0
A Little Mood Music: On the Relationship between Musical and Psychological Moods0
Motivational Internalism and Disinterestedness0
Books Received0
Commentary on Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind by Jonathan Gilmore; and Imagining and Knowing: the Shape of Fiction by Gregory Currie0
Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience0
Introduction to the Special Issue on Art and Morality and Précis of the Four Books Included in the Symposium0
Retroactive Continuity and Fictional Facts0
Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts0
The Aesthetic Theory of Frances Power Cobbe0
Aesthetic Ideas and Art Interpretation in Kant’s Third Critique and Schelling’s ‘System of Transcendental Idealism’0
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive0
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art0
Aesthetic Life and Why it Matters0
Novel Assertions: A Reply to Mahon0
Copyright and Collective Authorship: Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work0
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture/Decolonization (2nd edition).0
Merging Philosophical Traditions for a New Way to Research Music: On the Ekphrastic Description of Musical Experience0
Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir0
Improvisational mistakes0
Correction to: Interpreting Art0
An artist’s Voice: Expressive Achievement, Experiential Content, and Authority0
The Sublime of Consciousness0
The Philosophy of Modern Song0
Moving for Grace: Motor-Aesthetic Properties and Dance Appreciation0
Personal and Impersonal Expression0
Aesthetic Testimony: An Optimistic Approach0
Sympathy for a Serial Killer: Malick’s Badlands, Visual Metaphor and Frankfurt’s Concept of a Person0
Music’s Monisms: Disarticulating Modernism0
Liturgy and the Sublime0
The role of the performer in Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful0
Dubious pleasures0
Improvisation as a Method of Composition: Reconciling the Dichotomy0
Touched by Fashion: On Feeling What we Wear0
Reply to Abell’s and Gilmore’s comments on Currie’s Imagining and Knowing: the Shape of Fiction0
Musical Silences—Opaque and Capacious0
Park Aesthetics Between Wilderness Representations and Everyday Affordances0
Towards an Aesthetics of Archery0
Who’s Reading? On Children’s Aesthetics and Parenting0
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of Art0
Against Recognizability as a Criterion of Work-Performance0
Franz Boas and the Primacy of Form0
Correction to: Lubaina Himid exhibition at Tate Modern0
The Aesthetic Value of the World0
The Swirl of Emotion Among Us: Affect, the Voice, and Performance Training0
A Sensibility of Humour0
A Comparative Philosophy of Sport and Art0
Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter0
On Beauty and Wellformedness0
Schiller on Aesthetic Education as Radical Ethical-Political Remedy0
Fiction and Epistemic Value: State of the Art0
A Philosopher Looks at Architecture0
The Power of the Copy: Rethinking Replication Through the Cult Image0
Commentary on Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis, by Catharine Abell; and Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind by Jonathan Gilmore0
On the Relative Unimportance of Aesthetic Value in Evaluating Visual Arts0
Defending the Hypothetical Author0
Depicting Motion in a Static Image: Philosophy, Psychology and the Perception of Pictures0
In Sublimity’s Wake0
Against Modernism and Postmodernism on Art and Entertainment: A Kristeller Thesis of Entertainment0
Higher-Order Evidence in Aesthetics0
Adam Smith on Aesthetic Imagination and Scientific Enquiry0
Commentary on Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis, by Catharine Abell; and Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction, by Gregory Currie0
The Offences of the Imagination: The Grotesque in Kant’s Aesthetics0
Lubaina Himid exhibition at Tate Modern0
Zinger, Clunker, Clanger, Flunker: On Two-Point Comparisons, and Why we Love Them0
Emotion in Fiction: State of the Art0
Cinema, Displayed0
Fictional Discourse: A Reply to von Solodkoff’s ‘Demoting Fictional Names’0
Correction to: On Perspectivism and Expressivism: Response to Nannicelli0
Embodied Voices: An Introduction0
Demoting Fictional Names—A Critical Note to Predelli’s Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics0
The Beautiful Voice in Opera: The Injustice of Vocal Discrimination0
The Geography of Taste0
Philosophy and the Art of Writing0
Living with the Everyday Kitsch Object: A New Existential Potentiality0
Fashion Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion0
Enacting a Jazz Beat: Temporality in Sonic Environment and Symbolic Communication0
Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema0
Emotions in Music: Hanslick and His False Follower0
Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies0
Epistemic and Aesthetic Conflict0
Erasure and Assertion in Body Aesthetics: Respectability Politics to Anti-Assimilationist Aesthetics0
Art as Political Discourse0
Image in the Making: Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts0
Quod significat: Vitruvius’ ultimate criterion for (good) architecture0
Where Ethics and Aesthetics Diverge: Reconsidering the Objection from Creepiness0
Diversity-in-Unity: Art Criticism in Conversation0
The Aesthetic Value of Food0
The Narrative Characteristics of Images0
Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this0
The Chief Business of the True Judges in Hume’s Standard of Taste0
Look a Little (Chuck) Closer: Aesthetic Attention and the Contact Phenomenon0
Folk Song as Hybrid Art Form0
Belgian Solutions0
Gesamtausgabe. Series II: Nachlass. A: Nachgelassene Schriften. Vol. 13: Ästhetische Schriften0
Art Concept Pluralism Undermines the Definitional Project0
The Aesthetic Enkratic Principle0
Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love0
The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding0
Reply to Currie’s and Gilmore’s comments on Abell’s Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis0
How can we be moved by magic?0
Musical Ontology and the Audibility of Musical Works0
Unbiased Awarding of Art Prizes? It’s Hard to Judge0
Faked nature? A Kantian Proto-Environmental Aesthetics0
Drumming as Embodied and Mindful Performance: Observations on the Aesthetic Theories of Bill Bruford and Shaun Gallagher0
Is There Any Body Out There?0
Aesthetic Expertise: An Exploration and Defense0
Kant on the Deceitful Art of Rhetoric0
Satire, Comedy, and Mental Health: Coping with the Limits of Critique0
Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life0
Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals0
Knowledge and the Aesthetics of Nature0
Destroyed – Disappeared – Lost – Never Were0
Aesthetic Austerity in Persuasion0
Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition0
On Snobbery0
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture0
Corrigendum to: 100 × Congo: A Century of Congolese Art in Antwerp0
Breaking the Fourth Wall and (Meta)Fictional Reference0
Epic Theatre as a Form of Platonic Drama0
Modeling the Meanings of Pictures0
Wollheim on art’s historicity: an intersection of theoretical art history and the philosophy of art0
Everyone Can Change a Musical Work0
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood0
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics0
The Paradox of Rape in Horror Movies0
‘Making-remote’ as an Alternative to Realism in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art: Representations of the Human at the Threshold of Appearance0
Aesthetic Bias in Epistemic Evaluation and the Value of Art0
Performing Arts and Affordances: Moving toward Epistemic Justice through Embodied Learning0
Correction to: Merging Philosophical Traditions for a New Way to Research Music: On the Ekphrastic Description of Musical Experience0
Kant on the Aesthetic Ideas of Beautiful Nature0
Philosophy of Improvisation0
Essays on Beauty & the Arts0
Human Landscapes: Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology0
Perceiving Aesthetic Properties0
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