Catharine Abell (Manchester) Wednesday, 4th February 2014 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 102 I argue that what’s true according to a fiction is given by the contents of authors’ fiction-making illocutionary acts. According to this account, much less … Read More
Friday, 20 March 2015, Emmanuel Centre, University of Leeds Speakers Revd Dr Michael Armstrong (Congregational Federation) Professional and Ordinary Conceptions of Life after Death: Some Interesting Differences of Theological Opinion Dr Fiona Bowie (King’s College London) Experiential Themes in Afterlife … Read More
1-2 July 2015, University of Manchester Atmospheres play a significant role in, and add an important quality to, our intimate, domestic and public lives, yet are often overlooked in social research, not least because of the methodological challenges involved in … Read More
Institute of Philosophy, London, September 16-17, 2015. The conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception has been used in as diverse corners of aesthetics and philosophy of art as debates about depiction, aesthetic experiences, character engagement, our engagement with fictions, our … Read More
Wed Jan 28th 6pm ; Feb 11th 6pm and Feb 18th 6pm. Chandaria Lectures, Senate House (London WC1), Room 349, third floor. Cognitive neuroscience can shed new light – from its own methodological reductionist perspective – on the aesthetic quality … Read More
To mark its tenth anniversary in 2015, the AHRC is looking to extend its partnership with Cheltenham Festivals by inviting applications from researchers to present their research at one of a series of four engaging public events at the Times … Read More
University of Genoa, 13-14 November 2015 The conference aims at offering an opportunity to carry on pondering over different theoretical approaches; over how to conceptualise the various relations within the creative and reception processes of any art work; and finally … Read More
19-20th May 2015, Leeds, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) Nathaniel Adam Tobias C̶o̶l̶e̶m̶a̶n̶ (University College London) Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois – Chicago) Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma) Ron Mallon (Washington University in … Read More
Paloma Atencia-Linares (Kent) @ London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 14 January 2015 (4-6pm) Senate House, G35 In this talk I explore the peculiar phenomenology of photographic pictorial experience and propose a novel account for the special relation in … Read More
7-8 February 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK We are pleased to announce the first British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference: Interact! This conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students to share and discuss … Read More