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André de Avillez

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    policies for retracting/withdrawing published articles
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    Guidelines for public commenting on articles at PLOS computational biology
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    Reviewer guidelines for PLOS computational biology
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    General Policies for PLOS journals
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    Good resource for policies on community communication
André de Avillez

Art and Truth after Plato // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University ... - 4 views

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  • The purpose of this book, we are told right at the start, is to address anew 'the old question, often neglected in contemporary aesthetic debates, about art and truth, or art and cognition' (p. 1)
  • His purpose is to survey these varied responses, trace their development and adjudicate among them
  • very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • His opening chapter sets out Plato's contentions about art and truth
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Summary points here seem fair.
  • In any event, though the chapter on 'Christian Platonic and Anti-Platonic Art' is not noticeably shorter than the others, it does not have a key role in the philosophical trajectory that Rockmore is tracing.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Critical comment, but fairly stated, not harsh, matter of fact.
  • very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Not clear if these are positive or negative points, but the focus on those who receive scant attention point seems positive.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Identifies aims - good, but relies on direct quotation - bad.
  • rather long and unusual excursion through Marxist aesthetics.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      There is implicit judgement here, and no imagination about why Rockmore might be taking this approach. More generosity needed here.
  • This is a hugely ambitious book, and the range of reading that has gone into its making cannot but be impressive, though the steady flow of many lengthy summaries and brief references to a huge number of writers makes for rather heavy going on the part of the reader.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Praise, tempered by a sort of critique here. As if a simply positive remark can't stand on its own. Also, the vocabulary is one of coercion "cannot but be impressive."
  • more importantly flawed, and in a number of critical ways
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      OK, but is this the best way to say this?
  • No real evidence is offered of this neglect, and indeed the book is remarkable for making virtually no reference to contemporary work in aesthetics.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Fair point about references, but fine. Then belittling language "even the briefest survey would show..." - shame tactic.
  • Rockmore might object
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Indication that the reviewer is imagining his way into the mind of the author - imagine a response. Good.
  • Viewed in this light, however, it does not come out very well.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      So simple positive comments are avoided, but simple negative ones are not. Then ...  "conspicuous failures."
  • (to my mind)
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Recognizes own position might be limited.
  • serious methodological weaknesses that undermine some of its claims.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Negative comment, not nasty, but not nicely put.
  • what most people recognize to be a caricature
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Appeal to "most people" is a failure to take ownership of own critique.
  • It is no pleasure to give a serious and substantial philosophical work such a low rating. So on the positive side I think it can safely be said that readers will undoubtedly benefit from Rockmore's range of reference.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 20 Aug 14
       
      Begrudging critique, but limited praise.
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Overview of target project.  Seems like one the author would endorse, but it's impossible to know without asking the author, and difficult to guess without having read the work being reviewed.
  • hat 'long ago'
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Derisive tone
  • story
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Referring to the content of the book as a story rather than as a historical overview implies that the work lacks academic legitimacy
  • 'Middle Ages'
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      The use of scare quotes here, and the qualifiers that follow, imply a veiled criticism. It seems that criticisms must be open in order to be collegial, for otherwise they imply that the target's author is too dimwitted to grasp a meaning which is plainly grasped by the reviewer and the audience.
  • even the briefest survey would show, I think, that 'aesthetic cognitivism', as it is increasingly referred to, is not only widely discussed, but alive and wel
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Very critical language, framing a serious critique.  Yet it seems that the obvious has not been stated: the author was too focused on the continental tradition, and the reviewer was largely unfamiliar with that tradition (so much so that he saw the "excursion" into marxist aesthetics as unusual)
  • For example, he uses the expressions 'art and truth' and 'art and cognition' more or less interchangeably. But the conflation of 'truth' and 'cognition' confounds many of the issues he want to discuss, because there are important dimensions to cognition other than truth
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Criticism of the target, attempted at the target's own terms.
  • with which contemporary aesthetics is concerned.
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      One has to worry here of how the discipline is being defined.  Does analytic philosophy have dominance over the field?
  • In doing so he ranges very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays, devoting a whole chapter to 'Marx, Marxism, and Aesthetic Realism', for instance.
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Praise for target of review
  • n any event, though the chapter on 'Christian Platonic and Anti-Platonic Art' is not noticeably shorter than the others, it does not have a key role in the philosophical trajectory that Rockmore is tracing.
    • André de Avillez
      André de Avillez on 20 Aug 14
       
      Implies that the chapter is unnecessary, and does not attempt to see why it would have been left in.  Even if a philosophical aesthetics is not present in this long period, the author may have chosen to discuss it for the sake of completeness, and to show to what extent a philosophy of art/ aesthetics existed in the middle ages.
  • André de Avillez on 17 Jun 14
     
    A negative review which labors to see the merits in the target
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