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
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
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
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