 To the extent that aesthetics in this period was influenced by thinking about the mind it was more often prompted by ideas from psychoanalysis (Wollheim 1993). The last thirty years have seen a shift back towards empirical inquiry, assisted by a resurgence of interest in the imagination, now often treated as a capacity with an evolutionary and developmental history (Fuentes 2020; Harris 2000) and as subject to selective damage (Currie 1996).