id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_j3zfdlberbfhlps5avu4cm3ica Tomáš Hříbek Denis Dutton, 'The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution' 2011 6 .pdf application/pdf 2875 166 61 The Art Instinct is a terrific book and it is a great loss that Denis Dutton, an the Darwinian approach to bear on the key issues in the philosophy of art in Danto on a number of points, and while The Art Instinct offers perceptive According to Danto, all the works of art, no matter what they look like, share Dutton's criteria of art are 'its traditional, Dutton then considers Danto's thought-experiment in which two arts of any easy contrast between adaptations and by-products. 1 For the art-as-cheesecake metaphor, see Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: Dutton then applies this idea of art as adaptive to the particular case of If art is an adaptation, how can it be at the with what Dutton says about the adaptive value of literary arts, for example. he does not suggest that some arts (literature?) are adaptations, while others ./cache/work_j3zfdlberbfhlps5avu4cm3ica.pdf ./txt/work_j3zfdlberbfhlps5avu4cm3ica.txt