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September 16-17, 2015, Institute of Philosophy, London 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

Homerton College, Cambridge, 18-20 September 2015 Registration for our 2015 conference in Cambridge is available here. Book before 15 August for: – early bird discounted fees – BSA member discounts – generous postgraduate subsidies KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Paul Boghossian (New York … Read More

6 November 2015, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University Keynotes: Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester) and Professor Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Oxford) How do art historians interpret matter? And how about artists, makers, theorists and critics? Much recent art historical and … Read More

Relationships between artists and writers have long played an integral role in the dissemination and shaping of artistic, literary and critical reputations. This session will investigate the relevance of Derrida’s statement (in The Politics of Friendship) that ‘between talking to … Read More

In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visual), i.e., that we can acquire new warranted beliefs on that basis. We similarly assume that we can acquire experiential knowledge – knowledge of … Read More

14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law This workshop focuses on whether a global dominant beauty norm is emerging; one with less cultural variation and less sites of resistance. Some practices suggest this is … Read More

23-24 November 2015, Uppsala (Sweden) The recent publication of Derek Matravers’s Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014) has called into question many accepted tenets of the recent Philosophy of Fiction. The questions raised include: whether there really is a fiction/non-fiction distinction; … Read More

One way to define cultural property is as objects with so powerful a connection to a community that they continue to influence that community’s dreams, hopes, and self-definitions even after the physical objects themselves have disappeared. Our world today presents … Read More

A transdisciplinary conference entitled Changing Worlds: Engaging Science and Technology in Art, Academia and Activism that is going to take place in Vienna (Austria) from 19 to 21 November 2015. The conference is intended as a forum for academics/researchers from … Read More

Feast is seeking submissions for its inaugural online edition launching winter 2015 Beginning a series of responses to Setting the Table the first online edition of Feast takes the theme of cutlery. We are currently seeking contributions that broadly and … Read More

Comma Press has launched a new fiction platform called MacGuffin which hosts short stories and poetry in text and audio form. Anyone can upload a poem or short story, so long as they also upload a reading. This doesn’t have … Read More

The Costumed Visions of the Enhanced Body project, kindly funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a collaboration between the Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, and the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and … Read More