Just published. I defend aesthetic hedonism against the claim that we value painful and disstressing works of art. I point to underlying endogenous opioids that likely become active in the face of painful art, which in turn induce hedonic sensations.
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How Solving a Dopamine Puzzle Might Resolve the Paradox of Painful Art - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Aesthetic hedonism, the view that the value of an artwork is determined by its pleasure-inducing properties, is largely regarded as the default theory of aesthetic value. However, aesthetic hedonism h...
