 This entry concerns the ways in which work in cognitive science, broadly conceived, is or may be of importance for work in philosophical aesthetics. Our focus is largely on analytic, primarily Anglophone, aesthetic writing and its ancestry in the empirical tradition. Aesthetic work occurs elsewhere, inside philosophy and beyond, but it is within the analytic tradition that connections with the sciences of mind have been most investigated, and it is that tradition which has been most receptive to empirical theories and results (the work of Merleau-Ponty in the phenomenological tradition is an exception; for his influence see, e.g., Solli &amp; Netland 2021).