A NIGHT WITH NELSON GOODMAN

( 2011 - 2014 )

Nelson Goodman was a mid-20th century analytic American philosopher.  This project focused on how his aesthetic theories – made famous by his book Languages of Art – were ultimately the result of his metaphysical theories, particularly his anti-platonist nominalism.  For that, the starting point was his notion of qualia: those individual, discrete instances of experience.  The individual quale was defined as a particular thing: a particular color, at a particular place, at a particular time.