British Society of Aesthetics Workshop
University of Warwick, 6-7 June 2025
The Departments of Philosophy at Auburn University and the University of Warwick, with support from the BSA and Warwick’s Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, will hold a 2-day workshop to consider the nature and importance of aesthetic community. Some of the questions to be explored at the workshop are:
What is needed to sustain a community of taste? Is agreement in taste required? Is taste the right conceptual focus, with respect to aesthetic community? What is the potential for diversity within aesthetic community? Is the notion of a universal community of taste an ill-conceived aspiration or is it important as a regulative ideal? Broadly, what is good, problematic, or unclear in appeals to aesthetic community?
The organisers invite abstracts for papers that will explore the notion of aesthetic community, via some of the workshop’s central questions or related ones.
The abstracts should be 500-1000 words in length, with a 30-minute presentation in view. Please submit two versions of your file, one fully anonymized (and identified as such in the file name) and one including your name and information about your academic affiliation and career stage. Send abstracts to resourceaesthcomm@warwick.ac.uk by Monday 10 March 2025. Decisions will be made by 7 April.
The organisers especially encourage submissions from PhD and early-career researchers, and welcome and encourage submissions from members of groups currently underrepresented in philosophy. Some speakers will participate as commentators; if your paper is not accepted for presentation, you may still be invited to speak as a commentator. We do not have funding to support attendance at the workshop, but PhD and ECR researchers whose papers are accepted will be urged to apply for travel funding directly from the BSA.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/phillit/aestheticcommunity/