 Kant’s view that the pleasure in a beautiful object is non-conceptual has been taken to commit him to the supposedly objectionable view that the capacity to make conceptual distinctions can play no role in the appreciation of beauty. This criticism, made by Wollheim (1980) (invoking the idea that aesthetic appreciation demands an “empty cognitive stock”) is addressed in Janaway 1997. Relatedly, it has been objected that Kant does not allow room for reason-giving, and more generally, criticism in aesthetics; that objection is addressed in Crawford 1970 and (on lines suggested by Crawford) in Wilson 2007. Further defence and explication of a Kantian approach to art criticism is offered in Tuna 2016.