The arts and human nature: evolutionary aesthetics and the evolutionary status of art behaviours

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• 作者：Anton Killin (1)
  
• 关键词：Philosophy of the arts ; Evolution of the arts ; Evolutionary aesthetics ; Environmental aesthetics ; Evolutionary psychology
• 刊名：Biology and Philosophy
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：July 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：28
• 期：4
• 页码：703-718
• 全文大小：179KB
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• 作者单位：Anton Killin (1)
  
  1. Department of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• ISSN：1572-8404

文摘

This essay reviews one of the most recent books in a trend of new publications proffering evolutionary theorising about aesthetics and the arts—themes within an increasing literature on aspects of human life and human nature in terms of evolutionary theory. Stephen Davies-The Artful Species links some of our aesthetic sensibilities with our evolved human nature and critically surveys the interdisciplinary debate regarding the evolutionary status of the arts. Davies-engaging and accessible writing succeeds in demonstrating the maturity and scope of the field and his critique is timely and unparalleled. A laudable effort, however it may have benefited from espousing a co-evolutionary model more explicitly. Moreover there may be reason to question the usefulness of the standard set of distinctions (‘adaptation- ‘spandrel- ‘technology- that Davies appeals to.