Malcolm Budd obituary (opens in new tab)

Philosopher of aesthetics who had exceptionally high standards and was kind to students and colleaguesCan an aesthetic judgment be regarded as a statement of truth? The philosopher Malcolm Budd, who has died aged 85, made significant theoretical advances in defence of the objectivity of such an assessment.The central question of aesthetics that emerged from the Enlightenment, particularly in the work of Hume and Kant, was how an aesthetic judgment could be both grounded in an individual’s par...