L’arte secondo il filosofo americano Nelson Goodman

Abstract

The conception of art embraced by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman is founded on the notion of “symbol”. Symbols, interpreted within sign systems, allow a comprehension less or more intelligible of the different cultural worlds which are accessed through our cognitive practices. Thanks to his nominalist and constructive approach, the notion of art is imbued with a conceptual relativity, an unrealistic pragmatism and an ontological inflationism. Goodman’s strong conventionalism, however, prevents him from investigating into those subjective conditions that are relevant to the creation and the appreciation of a work of art.