Likewise. I just got a copy of your book last week. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I'm bringing back the Blue Book for 100-200 level philosophy courses. But the handwriting is a terrifying obstacle.

Please add me as well. I'm a philospher and visual artist who works on the philosophical implications of neuroaesthetic research.

Seen through this lens, aesthetic experiences are not essentially different from other kinds of experience, disinterested, or involve a unique sort of pleasure. They are rooted in basic reward processes shared with other animals, have motivational and biological roles, and deep evolutionary origins

We abandon the assumption-burdened concept of aesthetic experience in favor of sensory valuation, reframing aesthetic experience as an outcome of domain-general processes in the reward system. These processes integrate sensory information, expectations, experience, context, and physiological states