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Past-Oriented and Future-Oriented Frames of Familiarity: Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. Past-Oriented and Future-Oriented Frames of Familiarity: Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments   Mami Aota   Abstract Familiarity is an important concept that reveals aesthetic […]

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How Could Anybody Ever Feel at Home? Aesthetic Familiarity, Epistemic Comfort, and Displacement

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. How Could Anybody Ever Feel at Home? Aesthetic Familiarity, Epistemic Comfort, and Displacement* Ariane Nomikos   Abstract Places are at once inhabited by various […]

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That’s Beyond My Imagination!

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. That’s Beyond My Imagination! Kiyohiro Sen   Abstract According to one strongly supported view, fiction is a functional kind that communicates imaginings. Combining this […]

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The Aesthetics of Animal Companions

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation.   The Aesthetics of Animal Companions Samantha Vice   Abstract In the philosophical aesthetics literature, domestic animals, and in particular companion animals or pets, […]

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Aesthetic Value and Gardens

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. Aesthetic Value and Gardens David Fenner   Abstract Gardens as an aesthetic form rank high for their capacity to engage aesthetic attenders fully. ‘Full […]

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Properness and Pluralism in Functional Beauty

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. Properness and Pluralism in Functional Beauty   Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow   Abstract In their 2008 monograph, Functional Beauty, Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson develop […]

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Enlivening and Deadening Green and Gray Spaces: an exploration of Christopher Alexander’s features of living design

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Donate to CA The free access to this article was made possible by support from readers like you. Please consider donating any amount to help defray the cost of our operation. Enlivening and Deadening Green and Gray Spaces: an exploration of Christopher Alexander’s features of living design Isis Brook   Abstract The evidence that green […]