Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics invites submissions for a special issue on failures in the exercise of aesthetic judgment. Article manuscripts should be submitted by the 15th of September 2022. The journal would appreciate if you communicate your intention to submit a paper by 31st of May 2022. Pablo Picasso, L’Esprit Critique d’Art, 1962. Guest Editor: María José Alcaraz León (University of Murcia)For more specific guidelines, please visit the journal’s website https://estetikajournal.orgConfirmed contributors to the special issue are Eileen John (University of Warwick) and Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala Universitet).Recent debates on the validity of Aesthetic Testimony and the centrality of the so-called Acquaintance Principle suggest that there is more to the proper exercise of aesthetic judgment than mere endorsement of allegedly correct aesthetic judgments. For example, although it is reasonable to follow experts’ judgments in certain matters of fact, it seems less acceptable to simply endorse or adopt experts’ judgments in the aesthetic domain. That reliance on testimony, by contrast to some other areas of judgment, is not sufficient for aesthetic judgment has encouraged scholars to focus in turn on the importance of the personal involvement and autonomy of the aesthetic agent. This special issue will focus on phenomena related […]