A forceful objection to all theories that invite us to think of works of art as experiences those of the artist and/or those of the audience is that this is a conflation of an experience and the object of the experience.
Specifically, they distinguish three types of crowdsourcing with increasing complexity and demand in terms of experience or skills: classification, digitization, and conflation.
In each a conflation of two and three dimensions sets up an experience of cognitive uncertainty.
Second, there is an even stronger argument against the conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia: the lived experience of emotionally mature and psychologically healthy gay men (and women) who have never, ever abused a child; are not tempted to do so; are not attracted to children at all; and would, in short, never think of doing so.
Now, posing the issue this way and allowing the Law School to assert a special interest in "one particular type of diversity" invites the conflation of general diversity a diversity of opinions, experiences, backgrounds, talents, aspirations, and perspectives with ethnic and racial diversity that Justice Powell appeared strongly to resist.
Details are vague when it comes to the subjects of Hill's absurdist quips and pump-action puns, although experience suggests a healthy conflation of reality-based indignity, talent show poltroonism, satellite flimflam, plus Dev from Coronation Street.
I use the word 'need' and not 'want' because it's the conflation of the two that renders the whole experience so effective.
Pickvance goes on to say the painting Road with Cypress and Star represents an exalted experience of reality, a conflation of North and South, what both Van Gogh and Gauguin referred to as an "abstraction".
The conflation of the two in their every day experiences makes an analytical approach to human behaviour a key learning step to effective feedback.
However, the initial question was whether the monist has succeeded in explaining the phenomenon of 'moral regret', and perhaps Hurka has done that by positing a conflation of moral and non-moral regret in our experience.
