Ryan Ravanpak | PhD
Teaching Materials | Philosophy and the Arts
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