 The crucial thing to notice about this distinction between aesthetic and artistic value is that it moves us away from thinking of the value of a work of art as residing in the experience it might provide us (a view that David Davies has called “aesthetic empiricism”) and suggests, at the very least, that we do not look only to experience for the source of values in a work of art. One place to look is suggested by the position of Stecker himself, who requires what he calls “understanding” a work of art by means of examining 