To make an aesthetic judgment is to express an opinion about whether a work of art is worthy of having intrinsic value. The means of arriving at an aesthetic judgment have been the subject of much debate among philosophers and psychologists, as they call into question what qualities of aesthetics are (if they exist) and the cognitive mechanisms that cause us to define them thus. Perhaps aesthetic judgment can be seen as something derivative; for the means of arriving at a judgment involves a process of evaluation, in which we decide whether something is good or bad, big or small, beautiful or ugly. Whatever value we arrive at depends on a set of observed physical qualities. For example, we may judge a person's height to be tall if they exceed a certain number of inches. Generally, there is some agreement on what constitutes height, all things considered (age, gender, etc.). Thus, our conclusive judgments seem to relate to a number of physical properties of the object. The question that arises is whether the same can be true of aesthetic judgment. This article focuses on the aesthetic experience of art. There is a litany of philosophical inquiries into the origin of aesthetic judgment and research into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the observation of art, which will aid in the exploration of the inner experience of art; and the role of our bodies and emotions in the artistic experience. If aesthetic judgments are like other judgments in that they are derivative, then what we consider beautiful can be attributed to the given qualities of the object. However, there is no obvious contingency between aesthetically pleasing stimuli and the individual components from which they are constructed. Th...... middle of paper ...... divergent types of ap-, 2(2), 1–10.Leder, H., Belke, B., Oeberst, A. and Augustin, D . (2004). A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments. British Journal of Psychology (London, England: 1953), 95 (Pt 4), 489-508. doi:10.1348/0007126042369811Marković, S. (2012). Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic evaluation and aesthetic emotion. I-Perception, 3(1), 1-17. doi:10.1068/i0450aapMolnar-Szakacs, I. & Uddin, LQ (2013). Self-processing and the default mode network: interactions with the mirror neuron system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (September), 571. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00571 Tsukiura, T. and Cabeza, R. (2011). Shared brain activity for aesthetic and moral judgments: Implications for the Beauty-is-Good stereotype. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(1), 138-48. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq025