Desolation Sound: Social Practices of Natural Beauty

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 9 (4):266–273 (2020)
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Instances of natural beauty are widely regarded as counterexamples to practice-based theories of aesthetic value. They are not. To see that they are not, we require the correct account of natural beauty and the correct account of social practices.

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