Säätelä's Aesthetics as Grammar

Temporalization as Transcendental Aesthetics Avant - Garde , Modern ,

a bstr act Reflections on the relationship of aesthetics to politics tend to circle, almost compulsively, around a relatively stable set of conceptual oppositions, inherited from German philosophies of the late 18th century. This essay proposes an expansion of the theoretical terms of the debate by extending the field of transcendental aesthetics into the domain of historical temporalization. F...

Grammar as Logic

The notion of parsing as deduction appears to presuppose that of grammar as logic though in fact the former has largely involved embedding grammars in logics using a fragment conducive to theorem proving It is well known that categorial grammars take the form of implicational logics in this case the grammar is not embedded but simply is is a logic The paper argues that many further operations m...

Heuristics as Grammar

Computationally feasible accounts of complex linguistic phenomena (such as discontinuity, ellipsis, etc.) usually require additional, complex grammatical resources together with parsing heuristics to mitigate computational overhead. We claim that certain kinds of knowledge usually expressed as heuristics can be seen as declarative grammar knowledge if a default interpretation is given to gramma...

Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics:

Human factors researchers and practitioners have been focusing research attention on the easeof-use, productivity, safety, comfort, and effectiveness aspects of product and system design. This article argues that it is time that we add another important dimension to the fields of human factors research and practice—the aesthetic dimension. This article discusses the need for the establishment o...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics