National University of Ireland Galway, Thursday May 12 2016. Over the last 25 years Paul Crowther has developed a wide-ranging normative and cognitivist aesthetics that explains why the making and experience of art is so important for humanity. Uniquely, he … Read More
Essence and Context: A Conference Between Music and Philosophy Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tilto g. 16, Vilnius, LITHUANIA) 31st August — 3rd September 2016 Keynote speakers include: •Professor PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (New York University) •Professor VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS (Lithuania) •Professor … Read More
1st-2nd April 2016, University of Southampton, UK N.B. Deadline approaching! (Feb 1st) We invite abstract submissions from postgraduate students on any area of the philosophy of art or aesthetics for the BSA Postgrad conference, to be held in Southampton, UK, … Read More
The Centre for Critical Thought, the Centre for Comic and Popular Performance and the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent are glad to invite 250-word abstracts for COMEDY AND CRITICAL THOUGHT: LAUGHTER AS RESISTANCE? a two-day interdisciplinary conference … Read More
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 20th – 21th May 2016 The Institute of Philosophy of University of Bern announces a Call for Abstracts for the two-day conference ‘Music, Art and Philosophy in Dialogue’, organized together with the Hochschule der Künste … Read More
Editors: Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer There has been very little convergence between documentary film studies and cognitive film theory. Documentary scholars deem cognitive models too limited in that they only address the hardwired attributes of audience reception, thus hypothesising … Read More
26-28 November 2015, Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Organization: Albert Newen, Kevin Reuter, Pascale Willemsen It is our pleasure to announce the first conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany. It will take place at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, from … Read More
14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law This workshop focuses on whether a global dominant beauty norm is emerging; one with less cultural variation and less sites of resistance. Some practices suggest this is … 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
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