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• Aesthetics and the philosophy of art
• Definitions of art
• Traditional definitions
• Skepticism about definitions
• Some descendants
• Aesthetic concern
• Aesthetic pleasure
• Aesthetics and beauty
• Contemporary definitions
• Conventionalist definitions: institutional and historical
• Institutional definitions
• Historical definitions
• Functional (mainly aesthetic) definitions
• History before the 20th century
• Post-modern aesthetics and psychoanalysis
• Recent aesthetics
• Aesthetics and science
• Truth as beauty, mathematics
• Computational inference of aesthetics
• Evolutionary aesthetics
• Applied aesthetics
• Aesthetic ethics
• Aesthetic judgment
• Factors involved in aesthetic judgment
• The value of art
• Aesthetic universals
• Platon
• Plotinus
• Augustinus