The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Matthew Kieran will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the 79th ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, November 17-20, 2021. Professor Kieran is Professor of Philosophy and … Read More
The story of the founding of the British Society of Aesthetics has not been written, reports JEFF PETTS. “It is quite a story”, wrote the Society’s first Hon. Secretary, Sylvia Schweppe, “and when I have the time I shall try … Read More
Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference British Society of Aesthetics: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age. The conference will take place on 27th and 28th May 2021 in Cambridge, UK. The aim of this conference is to explore … Read More
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 New Horizons Award is Zoë Cunliffe of the CUNY Graduate Center for her conference submission, ‘The Moral Significance of First-Person Trauma Narratives’. The award comes with an honorarium of £1000 … Read More
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 British Society of Aesthetics Essay Prize is Aviv Reiter of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her essay, ‘Kant on the aesthetic ideas of beautiful nature’. The prize is £1,500 and … Read More
We are delighted to announce that Kris Goffin has been awarded the second British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020-2021, for his project ‘The Rationality of Emotion & Fiction’. Kris will be mentored by Stacie Friend at Birkbeck, University of … Read More
In recent years, there have been heated debates both in the public opinion and in academic contexts over the phenomenon of “cultural appropriation”—i.e. when ‘members of one culture … take for their own, or for their own use, items produced … Read More
The editors of Debates in Aesthetics are pleased to invite submissions for the General 2020 issue (Vol.17, No. 1). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31 July 2020 For this issue we welcome original articles, book reviews, and interviews from postgraduate and professional … Read More
In recent years, there have been heated debates both in the public opinion and in academic contexts over the phenomenon of “cultural appropriation”—i.e. when ‘members of one culture … take for their own, or for their own use, items produced … Read More
Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics. The conference will take place on 7–8 September 2020 in Cambridge, UK. Fully anonymised abstracts of up to 1,000 words should be submitted as an … Read More