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An International Bibliography of Works by and Selected Works about Nelson Goodman. An International Bibliography of Works by and Selected Works about Nelson Goodman This is based on, but extends and updates, a bibliography that appeared in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 1991, with the following note of attribution.

An International Bibliography of Works by and Selected Works about Nelson Goodman

The preparation of this bibliography by Sigrid Berka, PhD, was supervised by Paul Hernadi, Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara. We gratefully acknowledge the advice and cooperation of Professors Nelson Goodman (Harvard University), Catherine Z. Elgin (Dartmouth College), and Karl H. Potter (University of Washington), as well as various staff members of the UCSB library. Goodman's Aesthetics. First published Sat May 7, 2005; substantive revision Thu May 27, 2010 Nelson Goodman has certainly been one of the most influential figures in contemporary aesthetics and analytic philosophy in general (in addition to aesthetics, his contributions cover the areas of applied logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science).

Goodman's Aesthetics

His Languages of Art (first published in 1968 [Goodman 1976]), together with Ernst Gombrich's Art and Illusion (1960) and Richard Wollheim's Art and Its Objects (1968), represents a fundamental turning point in the analytic approach to artistic issues in Anglo-American philosophy. His unorthodox approach to art is part of a general approach to knowledge and reality, and is always pervasively informed by his cognitivism, nominalism, relativism, and constructivism.

N.Goodman - Ways of worldmaking. Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols - Nelson Goodman. L'Art en théorie et en action - Nelson Goodman, Jean-Pierre Cometti, Roger Pouivet. Esthétique et connaissance: (pour changer de sujet) - Nelson Goodman, Catherine Z. Elgin. A Companion to Aesthetics - Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins. Socrates (SU Catalog) - on this website you will find the audio files from Goodman's I. Kant lectures.