Making an aesthetic judgment means making a judgment 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 it calls into question what the qualities of aesthetics are (if they exist) and the cognitive mechanisms that drive us to define them as such. Perhaps aesthetic judgment can be thought of as something derivative; for the means of arriving at any judgment involve a process of evaluations, 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 physical qualities that are observed. For example, we may judge a person's height to be tall if it exceeds a certain number of inches, there is generally some agreement on what constitutes height, all things considered (age, gender, etc.). Thus, our conclusive judgments appear to supervene on a set of physical properties of the object. The question at hand is whether the same can apply to aesthetic judgment. This article focuses on the aesthetic experience of art. There is a litany of philosophical investigations into the origin of aesthetic judgment and research into the cognitive mechanisms involved in observing 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 derivational, then what we consider beautiful can be traced back to certain qualities of the object. However, there is no obvious contingency between aesthetically pleasing stimuli and the individual components from which they are constructed. Th...... half of the article ......divergent types of ap-, 2(2), 1–10.Leder, H., Belke, B., Oeberst, A., & Augustin, D (2004). A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgment. British Journal of Psychology (London, England: 1953), 95 (Pt 4), 489–508. doi:10.1348/0007126042369811 Marković, 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, L. Q. (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., & Cabeza, R. (2011). Shared brain activity for aesthetic and moral judgments: Implications for the beautiful-is-good stereotype. Cognitive and affective social neuroscience, 6(1), 138–48. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq025