The British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) aims to promote study, research and discussion of the fine arts and related types of experience from a philosophical, psychological, sociological, historical, critical and educational standpoint.
What we do
News about the Society
BSA New Horizons Award Winners 2025
As part of our commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion within British Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, the British Society of Aesthetics bestows up to... Read More
Literature in the Age of the Self
This event brings together celebrated authors and scholars to discuss the experience and depiction of the self in the twenty-first century. Date: 16.06.25 Reference to... Read More
Selfy Stories | Podcast
Dr Scarlett Baron (UCL English) and Alice Harberd (PhD student in UCL Philosophy) have launched a new UCL podcast, Selfy Stories. The podcast distils the... Read More
Seeking a Community of Taste | Programme
Programme All sessions on Warwick campus, in Social Sciences 0.20 (aka S0.20 – campus map) Friday 6 June 2025 10.00-10.30: Welcome and Coffee/Tea 10.30-12.00: Zach Weinstein... Read More
On Seeking a Community of Taste | Call for Abstracts
British Society of Aesthetics WorkshopUniversity of Warwick, 6-7 June 2025 The Departments of Philosophy at Auburn University and the University of Warwick, with support from... Read More
ASA Wollheim Lecturer October 2025
The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Murray Smith will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the American Society for Aesthetics Annual... Read More