6 June 2014 Nottingham Trent University In Desert Screen, Paul Virilio suggests the notion of a ‘squared horizon’ as a way of envisioning the interposition of the screen, multiple screens, in matters of war, conflict and international relations. Yet, the … Read More
IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission deadline: 1 July 2014 Notification of decisions: 1 August 2014 Conference dates: 5 – 7 December 2014 TOPICS AND SUBMISSION DETAILS A small number of slots are reserved for contributed papers, each of which will be … Read More
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Philosophica will devote a special issue to his philosophical thought. The idea of aesthetics as the science of sensory cognition proposed by Baumgarten in 1735 was … Read More
The Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia hosts a large number of conferences in a wide variety of disciplines each year, bringing together scholars from Europe, North America, and further afield. In April 2014, we shall be holding the third Dubrovnik … Read More
The term phenomenology is increasingly being employed to describe diverse approaches and tendencies in the study and practice of theatre and performance and throughout the humanities more generally. However, more often than the not, the term is not defined clearly … Read More
The variety of the forms of life has been a subject of philosophical reflection since Plato, who in the Statesman celebrated the diversity of the natural world as a mean to shed some light on the relationship between humans and … Read More
Call for papers for special issue on Musical Imagery The journal Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain (PMMB) encourages submissions on the theme of “Musical Imagery” for a special issue planned for publication in June 2015. This call for papers is … Read More
12 April 2014, Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne CBD Keynote Speaker Dr Michael Allis (University Leeds / Monash University): ‘Literary Perspectives on Music: Bantock, Shelley and The Witch of Atlas’ Conference Outline Since antiquity, music has been a fascinating and … Read More
July 9-11, 2014, Delft (NL) http://isparchitecture.com Philosophical ethics has opened its purview beyond human action to animal ethics and environmental ethics, but has not yet found a way to expand its existing reflections to designed objects, particularly built ones. Perhaps … Read More
27-30 December 2014, Philadelphia, PA. The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Eastern divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Papers … Read More