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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/aesthetic-value-and-judgments-
 of-the-identity-of-musical-works/
SUMMARY:Aesthetic Value and Judgments of the Identity of Musical Works
DESCRIPTION:Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė (Vilnius)In the last twenty years\, a
  large number of studies conducted by philosophers and psychologists inves
 tigated people&rsquo\;s judgments of the persistence of various objects (e
 .g. persons\, material objects\, institutions) over time. One influential 
 strand of research has found that our identity judgments are shaped by nor
 mative considerations. In the literature on personal identity\, it has bee
 n found that we believe people to be essentially morally good\, thus\, ord
 inary intuitions suggest that moral improvement tends to lead to the conti
 nuity of identity of a person\, while moral deterioration\, on the contrar
 y\, leads to the disruption of it. However\, normativity extends beyond mo
 rality\, and it is currently unknown whether the aesthetic value has a sim
 ilar effect. While humans are considered by the folk to be essentially mor
 ally good\, we predicted that works of art will be analogously seen as ess
 entially aesthetically valuable.We ran the first study (N=198) to explore 
 whether normative aesthetic considerations have a similarly strong influen
 ce on judgments of the identity of artworks. We presented the participants
  with short stories describing an artwork which undergoes some changes and
  thus becomes either more or less aesthetically valuable. We manipulated: 
 (a) artwork type: a painting or a musical work\; (b) source of the change 
 type: brought about by the creator or happening independently of their wil
 l\; (c) aesthetic change type: whether the artwork is aesthetically more o
 r less valuable afterwards. We found that changes in aesthetic value have 
 no influence on judgments of the identity of artworks. The results of this
  study are in stark contrast to the literature on the effect of moral good
 ness on personal or institutional identity\, and these differences invite 
 both theoretical and methodological reflection.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
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