Guest Editors:
Sandra Shapshay and Levi Tenen
Sandra Shapshay and Levi Tenen
A Special Issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2017
Submissions on any philosophical treatment of environmental aesthetics and ethics are welcome, but papers addressing these questions are especially welcome:
– Do we have aesthetic reasons, moral reasons, or some combination of these for protecting the natural environment?
– How does an object’s aesthetic value structure our reasons for acting?
– Are environmentally beneficial projects (e.g. wind farms) aesthetically flawed?
– How do non-western aesthetic approaches conceive of the relation between aesthetics and ethics, especially with respect to the natural world?
– Can Land Art be aesthetically flawed for negatively impacting the environment?
– What particular actions ought we to take towards the environment?
– Are moral reasons more normatively fundamental than aesthetic reasons, vice versa, or is neither more fundamental than the other?
– Can, and do, aesthetic values conflict with moral values?
– How have past philosophers conceived of the relation between environmental aesthetics and ethics?
– What role do aesthetic considerations play in motivating people to act for the sake of the environment?
– Does positive aesthetics rest on a moral claim?
– How does an object’s aesthetic value structure our reasons for acting?
– Are environmentally beneficial projects (e.g. wind farms) aesthetically flawed?
– How do non-western aesthetic approaches conceive of the relation between aesthetics and ethics, especially with respect to the natural world?
– Can Land Art be aesthetically flawed for negatively impacting the environment?
– What particular actions ought we to take towards the environment?
– Are moral reasons more normatively fundamental than aesthetic reasons, vice versa, or is neither more fundamental than the other?
– Can, and do, aesthetic values conflict with moral values?
– How have past philosophers conceived of the relation between environmental aesthetics and ethics?
– What role do aesthetic considerations play in motivating people to act for the sake of the environment?
– Does positive aesthetics rest on a moral claim?
Submissions should not exceed 7,500 words and must comply with the general guidelines for submissions. (See ‘Submissions’ on the JAAC page on the American Society for Aesthetics website: www.aesthetics-online.org) Upload submissions to the JAAC online submission website, https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac , making sure they are identified as submissions for the special issue: at the prompt for manuscript type, select ‘special issue’ rather than ‘original article.’