Simon Høffding, Carlos Vara Sánchez, and Tone Roald
for their article “Being Moved by Art: A Phenomenological and Pragmatist Dialogue” (Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics LIX/XV, no. 2, pp. 85–102).

The authors explore the experience of “being moved” by an artwork by interpreting phenomenological interviews in the light of Mikel Dufrenne’s phenomenology and John Dewey’s pragmatist aesthetics. The authors uncover a complex intentional process in which perceptual awareness of the artwork forms a dynamic loop with a covert affective awareness of oneself as the subject of the experience. The article is both intriguing in its substance and bold in its synthesis of theoretical and empirical methods.
The awarded article is part of a larger body of recent publications, in which the authors have innovatively explored various facets of aesthetic experience, such as absorption, participation, and passivity. With this award, the Finnish Society for Aesthetics encourages the authors to continue their important work on one of this basic theme of philosophical aesthetics.