Evers, Daan & Hanich, Julian: Beauty as a specific aesthetic concept: a reply to Panos Paris

British Journal of Aesthetics. forthcomingPanos Paris develops a theory of beauty in terms of wellformedness. Two kinds of wellformedness are key, namely functional and categorial wellformedness. Both kinds would correspond to types of beauty: functional and categorial beauty. The free or abstract beauty of artworks would depend on abstract wellformedness. This is a matter of giving rise to associations of wellformedness of either the functional or categorial kind. In developing this theory, P