Registration is now open for Art and Affect in the Predictive Mind, a three-day international and interdisciplinary conference that will bring together philosophers, art historians, and cognitive scientists for the first systematic exploration of the intersections between predictive processing and aesthetics. The conference … Read More
Registration is now open for the British Society of Aesthetics conference “Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age.” The conference will be a ‘hybrid’ conference, taking place in person and online via Zoom. Date: 6th to the 8th July, 2021. … Read More
Deadline for submission: December 1st, 2021 The interaction between moral and aesthetic / artistic evaluation (or lack thereof) has been a lively topic of discussion in philosophical aesthetics during the past few decades and it is becoming even more relevant in … Read More
CFP for a Special Issue on Higher-Order Evidence in Aesthetics | British Journal of Aesthetics. Deadline for submission: October 18th, 2021 Ananya dislikes a film but has reason to think that her aversion is the result of prejudice. Betty prefers … Read More
Beyond Human: The Aesthetics of Nature and Technology The Sixth British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference ‘Beyond Human: The Aesthetics of Nature and Technology’ was hosted by the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent on the 28th and … Read More
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
UPDATE: The conference will now be held on the 6th, 7th, and 8th July, 2021. The conference will be held both online via Zoom and in person in Cambridge, UK. Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference British Society of … 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