This study examined the search for meaning in art and its relationship to judgments of aesthetic quality. A meaning paradigm was developed in which subjects arranged three items, within sets of ...

The Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1904 as The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and J. McKeen Cattell. In 1906, Wendell T. Bush became ...

ESCAPE INTO MEANING. By Evan Puschak. Atria Books. 272 pages. $27. Going broad and deep, journalist Evan Puschak reflects on a remarkable range of artistic, political, and philosophical territory in ...