Below you can find teaching material I have created for Philosophy and the Arts at MIT.

Corresponding Syllabus | Philosophy and the Arts | 24.013

Week 1: Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts | Truth in Fiction

Week 2: Soundness and Validity

Week 3: Truth in Fiction (The Intentionalist Theory)

Week 4: Responding to Fiction: Suspension of Disbelief | Imagined Responses | Paradox of Fiction

Week 5: Evaluating Art: General Principles

Week 6: Evaluating Art: Against General Principles

Week 7: Morality and Art (Autonomism)

Week 8: Morality and Art (Ethicism and Immoralism)

Week 9-10: What is Art (The Institutional Theory)

Week 11-12: Emotions in Music (The Arousal Theory | The Resemblance Theory)

Week 13: No Class

Week 14-15: Beauty and Function | Aesthetics of the Natural World