Reviews for Art As Performance

The average rating for Art As Performance based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-14 00:00:00 Warren Campbell In this short book Snow responds to the situationist challenge to virtue theory. She offers compelling arguments illustrating the limitations of previous experimental research that some of have claimed provided strong evidence against the existence of traits, including virtues, that span different objective situations. Much of this research ignored the role of individual interpretations of situations as a key factor explaining behavior in a given situation and because of this it is unable to address the question of the existence of virtues. Snow's constructive project is to draw upon empirical research that supports the existence of context-spanning traits and to argue that virtues can be understood as subset of this type of trait. She also draws upon research in social intelligence to provide further empirical grounding to her neo-Aristotelian notion of virtue. The book could have been improved if an additional chapter was included to address explicitly questions concerns the relationship between her empirically grounded neo-Aristotelian theory of virtue and normative questions concerning the nature of human flourishing.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-14 00:00:00 Rusty Parker We cultivate virtue through cognitive processing routines. Virtue is a form of social intelligence.