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How Does Contemporary Philosophy Help Us to Understand Our Living World in an Alternative Way Through Contemporary Art Experience? (102906)
Session Chair: Dirk Rodricks
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Wednesday, 7 January 2026 15:20
Session: Session 2 (Parallel)
Room: Live-Stream Room 5
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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This essay explores how the philosophies of John Dewey, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur C. Danto illuminate the role of contemporary art and philosophy in achieving one of philosophy’s central aims: understanding the world. I focus on the relation between language and world as a means to explain phenomena in a pluralistic way, linking audiences’ experiences of art with their everyday lives, rather than confining analysis to Danto’s early notion of “The Artworld” (1964). In Danto’s later philosophy of art (1997, 2013), the experience of artworks provides a way to grasp the world by offering alternative perspectives on the familiar events and objects that structure daily life. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of language, conceived as a form of contextualism, and drawing from the metaphilosophical perspectives of Hannon, Nguyen, and Kitcher, I argue that contemporary philosophy supports a holistic understanding of the world through engagement with art. I propose that three phases of art experience in contemporary practice can awaken self-consciousness regarding pressing social issues and prompt a conscious shift in perspective. Thus, aesthetic experience functions not only as a mode of reflection but also as a transformative process that connects philosophy and art, offering new ways to reimagine and critically engage with the world we inhabit.
Authors:
Chiao-Fen Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
About the Presenter(s)
Chiao-Fen Lin is a graduate student of institute of philosophy of mind and cognition in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung university.
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