Do the artist's intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In 'Art and Intention', Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory.

1. What are intentions? –

2. Intention and the creation of art –

3. Authorship, individual and collective –

4. Intentions and oeuvres –

5. Texts, works, versions (with reference to the intentions of Monsieur Pierre Menard) –

6. Intention and the interpretation of art –

7. Fiction and fictional truth.