Aesthetics — What ? Why ? and Wherefore ?
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It is a very great honor to address my friends and colleagues as president of the American Society for Aesthetics, an organization that plays a unique role in a field that is, at once, a major traditional branch of philosophy and also central to disciplines often regarded as remote from philosophy, as well as depending crucially on their contributions. I will follow the lead of one of my distinguished predecessors in this office, Peter Kivy, who used the occasion of his own presidential address twelve years ago to step back and reflect on the state of the discipline and the nature of aesthetics.1
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