{"id":1788,"date":"2026-04-09T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/?page_id=1788"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:14:32","slug":"truth-aesthetic-goodness-and-ideal-sensibilities-pragmatic-considerations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/percorso-formativo\/offerta-formativa-2025-26\/truth-aesthetic-goodness-and-ideal-sensibilities-pragmatic-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth,\u00a0Aesthetic Goodness, and Ideal Sensibilities: Pragmatic Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corso di Dottorato in Filosofia, Epistemologia, Scienze Umane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universit\u00e0 di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Titolo del corso<\/strong>: Truth,&nbsp;Aesthetic Goodness, and Ideal Sensibilities: Pragmatic Considerations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>N. ore<\/strong>: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Docenti (e-mail e relativo\/i settore\/i s.s.d.)<\/strong>: Filippo Contesi (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Cagliari), <a href=\"mailto:filippo.contesi@unica.it\">filippo.contesi@unica.it<\/a>, Filosofia e teoria dei linguaggi; Tom Adajian (James Madison University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breve bio\/bibliografia<\/strong>: Tom Adajian&nbsp;\u00e8 Professore Emerito di&nbsp;Filosofia&nbsp;presso l&#8217;Universit\u00e0 James Madison, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modalit\u00e0 di erogazione<\/strong>: in presenza e online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Calendario degli incontri<\/strong>: 22 maggio 2026, 15&#8211;17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aula e\/o Link<\/strong>: Aula 18 (Sa Duchessa, Corpo Centrale)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lingua<\/strong>: Inglese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conoscenze preliminari richieste<\/strong>: nessuna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breve descrizione del corso<\/strong>: Theories that analyze aesthetic goodness by appeal&nbsp;to an idealized agent (e.g., Hume&#8217;s &#8220;true judges&#8221;) are well-known. Common criticisms of such Ideal views include some that reject the notion of an ideal sensibility altogether, some that claim that a standard of taste so defined is&nbsp;&#8220;useless,&#8221; and some holding that such views are vulnerable to an aesthetic version of the Euthyphro dilemma.&nbsp; This paper (a) examines those criticisms and (b) defends a distinctive and underexplored pragmatist version of an Ideal approach, which aims at a unified account of truth and aesthetic goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Valutazione finale<\/strong>: No<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Altre informazioni utili<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/files\/2026\/04\/260522-seminario-Truth-Aesthetic-Goodness.pdf\">Locandina del seminario<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corso di Dottorato in Filosofia, Epistemologia, Scienze Umane Universit\u00e0 di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia Titolo del corso: Truth,&nbsp;Aesthetic Goodness, and Ideal Sensibilities: Pragmatic Considerations N. ore: 2 Docenti (e-mail e relativo\/i settore\/i s.s.d.): Filippo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9406,"featured_media":0,"parent":137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788\/revisions\/1814"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/fesc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}