Review Article Arguing About Art Peter Lamarque Aesthetics, edited by Susan L. Feagin and Patrick Maynard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, vii + 418 pp. ISBN 0-19-289275-4 pb Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics, by Gordon Graham. London: Routledge, 1997, xi + 193 pp. ISBN 0-415-16688-8 pb Aesthetics, by Colin Lyas. London: UCL Press, 1997, xii + 239 pp. ISBN 1-85728-580-8 pb Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, edited by Alex Neill & Aaron Ridley. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995, xv + 346 pp. ISBN 0-07-046191-0 pb An Introduction to Aesthetics, by Dabney Townsend. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, vi + 248 pp. ISBN 1-55786-730-5 pb I What might an undergraduate (in the English-speaking world) expect in a course on aesthetics at the start of the 21st Century? A generation ago the fare on offer would have been readily predictable, dictated largely by the topics in Monroe Beardsley’s definitive analytical text Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (1958): the intentional fallacy, meaning and truth in the arts, the objec- tivity of judgement, aesthetics as metacriticism Kant would have figured, possi- bly Hume, certainly not Hegel. Croce and Collingwood might have been wheeled on to exemplify the disastrous consequences of metaphysics and idealism. Judging from this recent cluster of undergraduate texts, there is much less predictability now. If Neill and Ridley set the pattern – in their attractive and teachable collection Arguing About Art – then students will be debating (among European Journal of Philosophy 7:1 ISSN 0966–8373 pp. 89–100  Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1999. 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK, and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.