What can we learn about aesthetics by studying the creative process of art-making? Much research has focused on the viewer’s relationship with the art-object. Analyzing this experience provides a quantitative approach, but such an approach, as Chatterjee (2011) describes, runs the risk of “looking for the dropped coin under the lamp because that is where things are visible. . . ” In this paper,...

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Philosophical accounts of narrative fiction can be loosely divided into two types. Participant accounts argue that some sort of simulation, or 1st person perspective taking plays a critical role in our engagement with narratives. Observer accounts argue to the contrary that we primarily engage narrative fictions from a 3rd person point of view, as either side participants or outside observers. ...

For more than two millennia, theoretical reflections on aesthetic perception and the creation of aesthetically appealing objects have been an important domain humanist scholarship.Empirical aesthetics complements this tradition by adopting scientific methodology providing evidence-based, reproducible answers to both longstanding recently arisen questions.While empirical has largely remained mar...