14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/beautydemands 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 … Read More
28 August 2015, University of Sydney Topic: 18th Century Philosophy in Dialogue The Research Day will begin with an interdisciplinary panel discussion with experts from a number of fields speaking on the relationships between philosophy, music, literature, art and architecture … Read More
Volume 17, Number 1 Issue date: January 2016 Submission deadline: September 30, 2015 Editor: Robert Fudge (Weber State University) Contemporary analytic philosophers typically treat ethics and aesthetics as largely distinct areas of concern. This contrasts with much of the history … Read More
University of Warwick, 6 February 2016 Deadline for submission: 15 September, 2015 Confirmed Keynote speakers: Professor Bill Gray (University of Chichester), Professor Arthur Graesser (Memphis, Oxford) Conference website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ssc/ The success of recent Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, the movie … Read More
October 29-31, 2015, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas After Valladolid in 2014, Braga will host the second Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics. These meetings intend to foster the collaboration between Portuguese and Spanish scholars on … Read More
A volume edited by Pieter Vermaas & Stéphane Vial Philosophical interest in design and design research is increasing in both philosophy and design research, offering the possibility of the emergence of the new scholarly field of philosophy of design. The … Read More
The University of the West of England (UWE) Philosophy Annual Graduate Conference invites philosophical and performance submissions on the topic of sound. We take sound to mean any acoustic phenomena in nature involved in communication and information grounding theoretical and … Read More
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, 1-4 September 2015 The team of the research project “Poetics of Selfhood: Memory, Imagination, and Narrativity” (PTDC/MHC-FIL/4203/2012), hosted by the Philosophy Center of Lisbon University, launches a call for papers and panels to be … Read More
15-16 December 2015, University of Southampton http://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, Crane’s … Read More
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for a special issue of Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane, dedicated to Hegel’s Philosophy of Art. The issue will be edited by Luca Illetterati and Francesco Campana … Read More