November 16-19, 2016 Renaissance Seattle Hotel Seattle, WA Submission deadline: February 15, 2016. Papers on any topic in aesthetics or the philosophy of art are invited, as well as proposals for panels, author-meets-critics sessions, and other special sessions. We welcome … Read More
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Edited by Robert Stecker and Theodore Gracyk Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2016 As the American Society for Aesthetics and its official journal approach their … Read More
Performance Philosophy Volume 2 (2016) Edited by Daniel Watt Deadline for submissions: 30th November 2015 This is an open call for submissions to Volume 2 of the online journal, Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, … Read More
The Birmingham Journal of Literature & Language (BJLL) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published annually, both electronically and in print. It includes submissions from postgraduate students with diverse backgrounds, including specialists Literature and Language from all periods and cultures. The … Read More
2-3 April 2016, San Francisco, (Westin St. Francis Hotel and SF Ballet School Board Rm) Organised by the ArtSense Taste and Community project (Australian Research Council funded project): http://www.artperception.com.au/ Submission Deadline: 31st October 2015 This workshop is also sponsored by … Read More
15-16 December 2015, University of Southampton See bsafictionalcharacters.weebly.com Fictional characters have received unprecedented philosophical attention in last few years including the publication of the following monographs: Thomasson’s (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics, Priest’s (2005) Towards Non-Being, Azzuoni’s (2010) Talking About Nothing, … Read More
Relationships between artists and writers have long played an integral role in the dissemination and shaping of artistic, literary and critical reputations. This session will investigate the relevance of Derrida’s statement (in The Politics of Friendship) that ‘between talking to … Read More
In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visual), i.e., that we can acquire new warranted beliefs on that basis. We similarly assume that we can acquire experiential knowledge – knowledge of … Read More
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
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