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Iseminger, Gary Hudson was born on March 3, 1937 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Boyd Austin and Harriet Herring (Hudson).
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How can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the informal institution of the artworld is to promote aesthetic communication. He concludes that the fundamental criteria for evaluating a work of art as a work of art are aesthetic. After considering other practices and institutions that have aesthetic dimensions and other things that the practice of art does, Iseminger suggests that art is better at promoting aesthetic communication than other practices are and that art is better at promoting aesthetic communication than it is at anything else. Iseminger bases his work on a distinction often blurred in contemporary aesthetics, between art as a set of products"works of art"and art as an informal institution and social practice-the artworld. Focusing initially on the function of the artworld rather than the function of works of art, he blends elements from two of the most currently influential philosophical approaches to art, George Dickie's institutional theory and Monroe Beardsley's aesthetic theory, and provides a new foundation for a traditional account of what makes good art.
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'What is the connection, if any, between the author's intentions in (while) writing a work of literature and the truth (acceptability, validity) of interpretive statements about it?' With this question, Gary Isminger introduces a literary debate that has been waged for the past four decades and is addressed by philosophers and literary theorists in "Intention and Interpretation". Thirteen essays discuss the role of appeals to the author's intention in interpreting works of literature. A well-known argument by E.D. Hirsch serves as the basic text, in which he defends the appeal to the author's intention against Wimsatt and Beardsley's claim that such an appeal involved 'the intentional fallacy'. The essays, mostly commissioned by the editor, explore the presuppositions and consequences of arguing for the importance of the author's intentions in the way Hirsch does. Connections emerge between this issue and many fundamental issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind as well as in aesthetics. The (old) "New Criticism" and current Post-Structuralism tend to agree in disenfranchising the author, and many people now are disinclined even to consider the alternative. Hirsch demurs, and arguments like his deserve the careful attention, both from critics and sympathizers, that they receive here. Literary scholars and philosophers who are sympathetic to Continental as well as to Anglo-American styles of philosophy are among the contributors. Author note: Gary Iseminger, William H. Laird Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, has published several other books and many articles in leading philosophical periodicals. He is on the editorial board of the "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism" and the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association.
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Iseminger, Gary Hudson was born on March 3, 1937 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Boyd Austin and Harriet Herring (Hudson).
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, 1958; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1961.
Instructor philosophy Yale University, 1961-1962, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1962-1963, assistant professor, 1963-1968, associate professor, 1968-1973, professor, 1973-1994, William H. Laird professor philosophy and liberal arts, 1994—2002, Stephen R. Lewis, Junior professor philosophy and liberal learning, 2002—2004, emeritus, since 2004. Visiting fellow Kings College, London, 1966, University Lancaster, 1991. Chair student-faculty administration committee Carleton College, 1970-1971, department philosophy, 1972-1975, 86-89, 98—, educational policy committee, 1973-1974, English department review committee, 1973-1974, committee Lucas Lecturers in Arts, 1977-1981, presidential inauguration, 1987, education department review task force, 1988, American studies program review committee, 1992, member tenure and development review committee, 1985-1987, College Council, 1987, College Marshall, 2001-2004.
Academy visiting London School of Economics, 1971. Visiting professor philosophy University Minnesota, 1979, Mayo Medical School, 1986, 87, University Lancaster, 1994, Trinity College Dublin, 2000, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2003. Belgum memorial lecturer St. Olaf College, 1997.
Visiting lecturer Uppsala (Sweden) University, 2005. Panelist division fellowships National Endowment of the Humanities, 1980, 91. Commentator Minnesota Public Radio, 1981.
Director London arts program Associated Colleges Midwest, 1982. Consultant Harvard University Press, University California Press, Prentice-Hall, Cornell University Press, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Vanderbilt University Press, Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Dialogue, Notre Dame Journal Formal Logic, Journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Inquiry. External reviewer, evaluator various philosophy departments.
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Active Minnesota Humanities Commission, 1984-1990, chair 1988-1989. Member American Association of University Professors (president Carleton chapter 1967-1968), American Philosophical Association (program committee western division 1982, task force on the philosophy major 1989-1990,program committee central division 1991, Chairman of Commission on teaching philosophy 1993-1996, commission to award Matchette prize in philosophy 1993-1995, board officers1993-1996), American Society Aesthetics (trustee since 1996), Minnesota Philosophical Society (president 1978-1979), Phi Beta Kappa (president Carleton chapter 1968-1969).
Married Andrea Louise Grove, December 18, 1965. Children: Andrew, Ellen.