April 8-10, 2015, Pacific Grove, California Paper and panel submissions from persons in all arts-related disciplines, including graduate students, are welcome. Papers and panels may treat any area of interest within aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Suggested topics include, … Read More
24 August 2015, Birkbeck College London Pragmatist and embodied approaches to aesthetics consider aesthetics to be the study of everything that goes into the human capacity to make and experience the bodily pre-linguistic cognitive, emotional and sensory-perceptual conditions of meaning … Read More
University of Copenhagen, October 21, 2014 Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture (CJMC) & PhD School of the Faculty of Theology, In being inter-generationally transmitted, the “haunting legacy“ of the Holocaust (Gabriele Schwab) turns from first-hand … Read More
Durham University, 17-18 September 2014 “Voice-hearing”, or auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), refers to the experience of hearing a voice or voice-like sound in the absence of an external stimulus. AVHs are reported by individuals with a range of psychiatric disorders, … Read More
Columbia, South Carolina, March 19-21 2015 Three Rivers Philosophy Conference at the University of South Carolina in cooperation with the BiCoDa Alliance (Bielefeld, Columbia, Darmstadt) – What are the roles of pictures and diagrams in mathematical proofs, in formal reasoning, … Read More
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, January 29–31 2015 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a three-day conference. Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the … Read More
University of Hertfordshire, 12-13 September 2014 Speakers include: Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh) Owen Anderson (Princeton & Arizona State University) Sophie Battell (Cardiff) Katie Brennan (Temple University) Gregory Currie (York) Max de Gaynesford (Reading) Adele-France Jourdan (K.U. Leuven) Derek Matravers (Open University) … Read More
A London Aesthetics Forum at the Institute of Philosophy 8 September 2014, Senate House, London (Room G34) Registration is free but required. The aim of science is a topic often broached amongst philosophers of science: it deeply informs their discussions … Read More
10-12 April 2015, The University of Chicago and the Chicago Cultural Center Keynotes will include: Simon Critchley Matthew Goulish & Lin Hixson With a premiere of a new work-in-progress by Every house has a door Kindly supported by: The Franke … Read More
October 24-25, 2014, Franciscan University Keynote Address: “Beauty and Desecration” Roger Scruton “Beauty will save the world,” writes Dostoevsky, yet beauty is often seen as a weak and expendable arrow in the metaphysical quiver that includes the more robust good … Read More