世界范围内美学的科学化发展与“审美认知”转向——兼论中国当代美学应有的三个向度

当前,世界范围内以"脑科学"为中心的认知科学研究迅速发展,并在意识、艺术、审美等问题的科学化理解方面产生了变革性的影响。艺术和审美活动是人类最为复杂的一种意识精神活动,对其认知神经基础和机制的探索成为科学化美学研究的主题,这种研究将使传统美学的基本问题能够在科学的框架中获得合理解释。这一趋势合乎逻辑、合乎历史地生发出"审美认知"转向。中国当代美学应该适应知识的更新发展,在新材料和新认识的基础上建构起科学化的理论形态。

The Development of Global Scientific Aesthetics and The Turn of Aesthetic Cognition——Also on Three Dimensions Which Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics Should Have.

At present,the mushroom growth in cognitive science which focused on brain science research has a profound and revolutionary influence on the understanding of consciousness,art and beauty-appreciating.As we all know,art and beauty-appreciating are the most complex of the human sense of spiritual activity.Now,scientific aesthetics takes the exploration of cognitive neural substrates and mechanisms as the themes,which means that the basic problems of traditional aesthetics would be able to get a reasonable scientific explanation in such a research framework.Consequently,a turn of aesthetic cognition has occurred logically and historically.Contemporary Chinese aesthetics should be updated to adapt to the development of new scientific knowledge and construct a scientific theoretical form.