Abstract Edith Landmann-Kalischer defends two claims about aesthetic judgment: it is a species of cognitive judgment in the Kantian sense, and it is based on feeling. I question whether she can hold these two theses together: the way she makes her case for the first claim undermines her ability to maintain the second. I first discuss the notion of a cognitive judgment in Kant and in Landmann-Kalischer. Then I argue that Landmann-Kalischer fails to establish that feeling plays any role in warranting aesthetic judgment. Finally, I suggest that even if aesthetic judgments just are cognitive judgments, beauty makes a claim on us of a different kind.
Robbie Kubala (2025) studied this question.