Beyond intersubjective validity: recent empirical investigations into the nature of aesthetic judgment

According to a longstanding tradition in philosophy of art, people spontaneously attribute universal, intersubjective validity to their aesthetic judgments. In this chapter, I discuss recent empirical evidence against this claim. I then present the results of two new studies that extend these findings by showing that, far from being intersubjectively valid, the truth-value of aesthetic judgment can also vary in function of (i) the etiology of these judgments, and (ii) the person they are directed to.