Welcome fellow postgraduates
This section of the BSA website is for postgraduates interested in aesthetics. Here you can find the Society's Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, as well as information on postgrad events, calls for papers, sources of funding, etc.
Join the BSA - student rate!
JOIN US! You can join the British Society of Aesthetics for just £17/€25/$34 per year.
This entitles you to the four issues of the British Journal of Aesthetics, published in January, April, July, and October of each year (including access to the journal on-line), regular Society newsletters, and participation in the Society's activities, including its Annual Conference, which in 2012 will take place 21-23 September 2012 at Queen's College, Oxford. To join, click here
Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
The aim of this journal is to offer postgraduates interested in aesthetics a space to exchange ideas, and also to foster a resource that will promote high quality essays relevant to postgraduates' interests. The journal is published three times annually, in January, May and September.
Deadline for submissions for the Autumn issue is 1 August 2012.
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Events and Calls for Papers
Event: Understanding Value
A Graduate Conference on Value, University of Sheffield,
11th-13th July 2012
Questions about value permeate all areas of philosophy and concern us all, but the attempts to answer these questions are often confined to particular disciplines and existing debates. The organisers want to gather graduate students working on a range of philosophical
topics (including ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, and philosophy of mind) to discuss the nature of value and to open new channels for discussion and the dissemination of ideas.
Keynote speakers:
Dr Miranda Fricker, Birkbeck College, University of London
'What's the Point of Blame?'
Professor Christopher Hookway, University of Sheffield
'Scepticism, Freedom of Mind and the Possession of Virtues'
Professor Peter Lamarque, University of York
'On not Being too Formalistic about Aesthetic Value'
There will also be graduate speakers presenting on a broad range of topics.
A full programme is available online: http://www.understandingvalue.webeden.co.uk/#/programme/4554605507.
Registration for the conference is now open, and costs just £10 for the three days. There are also registration options available that include accommodation and the conference meal.
For further details see: http://www.understandingvalue.webeden.co.uk/#/registration/4558112393. More information available at www.understandingvalue.webeden.co.uk.
Philosophy and Literature Graduate Conference: “Truth, Thought, and Technology”
The 4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference at Purdue
University, October 2012
Philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have explored
technology’s relation to truth. Whether that exploration has been
undertaken as part of a broader investigation of nature or causality,
or whether it has been couched in terms of an ethical self-
development, technology is never far from the concerns of
philosophers. Similarly, writers of fiction have thematized
technology and its cultural consequences. Writers ranging from Samuel
Butler to Aldous Huxley to David Foster Wallace have reacted to
technological change with varying degrees of alarm. As technology
continues to proliferate and impact private, social, and political
life across the world, philosophical and literary attempts to clarify
the relation between truth, thought, and technology are as pressing as
ever.
Submission of papers are invited from graduate students of all disciplines
pertaining to technology’s impact on how we think about truth today.
Papers should be prepared for blind review and submitted to
truthandtechnology2012@gmail.com. Submissions should include a
separate document including (1) name of submitter, (2) paper title,
(3) contact information, and (4) an abstract of 75-150 words.
Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for a 20
minute panel presentation, to be followed by a formal question and
answer period. The deadline for submissions is June 1st, 2012.
Postgraduate Study in Aesthetics
Specialist degrees in aesthetics
Postgraduate Bursaries and Funding
BSA Studentship Award
The British Society of Aesthetics proposes to award up to one Ph.D. studentship full-time maintenance grant of £13,590 (or within the City of London or the Metropolitan Police district: £15,590) plus tuition fees up to a maximum value of £4,000 from Sept. 2012 for up to 3 years.
The studentship is designed to support a promising philosopher in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, by enabling him or her to pursue full time doctoral research.
For more information, please click here
AHRC and ESRC
Consult the Arts & Humanities Research Council Homepage for details of the studentships scheme. The Economic and Social Research Council may also have relevant information, and particular universities may have fellowships to offer.