Undergraduate Course: Aesthetics (PHIL10117)

Course Outline
School	School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The course will introduce students to some central topics in contemporary aesthetics, including the nature of art, aesthetic experience, and issues arising in the philosophy of the particular arts.
Course description	The course will examine theories of beauty, the arts and the aesthetic in contemporary thinkers, while also considering historical treatments of these topics. Topics discussed will include aesthetic experience, beauty, art, the aesthetics of nature, forgery, emotion, truth and morality.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Knowledge and Reality (PHIL08017) AND Mind, Matter and Language (PHIL08014)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	Normally 3 College/University Philosophy courses at grade B or above.
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: 26
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 11, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Final two-hour examination in the May diet (100%)
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Aesthetics		2:00

Academic year 2016/17, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: 5
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 11, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Final two-hour examination in the May diet (100%)
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)	Aesthetics		2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Students will acquire an understanding of some major issues in aesthetics An understanding of how these issues relate to continuing debates. An ability to read closely, analyse and criticise philosophical texts. Written skills and the ability to understand and analyse arguments. The ability to present and defend arguments.

Reading List
Introductory works. C. Lyas, Aesthetics. A. Shephard, Aesthetics. G. Graham, Philosophy of the Arts: an Introduction to Aesthetics. Collections. D. Cooper, Classic Readings in Aesthetics. G. Dickie and R. Sclafani, Aesthetics: a Critical Anthology. (Second edition by Dickie, Sclafani and Roblin.) P. Lamarque and S. Olsen, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. A. Neill and A. Ridley, Arguing about Art . P. Kivy, The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. P. Alperson, The Philosophy of the Visual Arts. O. Hanfling, Philosophical Aesthetics; an Introduction. S. Feagin and P. Maynard, Aesthetics. J. Levinson, Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Reference work. D. Cooper, ed., A Companion to Aesthetics.

Additional Information
Course URL	http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ug_study/ug_honours/ug_hons_index.html
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information	The course will be taught by Dr Andrew Mason
Keywords	Not entered

Contacts
Course organiser	Dr Andrew Mason Tel: Email: A.S.Mason@ed.ac.uk	Course secretary	Miss Samantha Bell Tel: (0131 6)50 3602 Email: sam.bell@ed.ac.uk