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
This is a final reminder that the deadline for registration for Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference (17th Saturday – 18th July 2015 at University College Cork, Ireland) is this Friday the 10th of July. Registration for this event is free … Read More
Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the belief systems of the cultures in which they develop and function. Such belief systems vary from unarticulated background assumptions to ritualized practices and explicit doctrines or … Read More
Aesthetic Investigations solicits contributions for its second issue. Submission may relate to the calls below, but need not. For calls for future issues, please consult the website. Articles 2015 Winter (deadline for submission: September 15 2015): How does one make … Read More
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2015 This issue of The Monist addresses the relations between the debate on scientific models in philosophy of science and the debate on the nature of fiction in aesthetics. Although a precursor of the analogy … Read More