Budapest, Hungary, June 2-5 2014 Conference venue: Faculty of Arts, ELTE, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 6-8, lecture room 34. The conference is organised and supported by the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Szeged, the Central … Read More
University of Stuttgart, June 27-28 Organization: Catrin Misselhorn & Joerg Fingerhut At this workshop Jesse Prinz (City University of New York) is going to present his work on the relationship between emotions and values in the field of ethics and … Read More
The Inaugural Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) will take place at the New University of Lisbon on 18-20 July, 2014. Many of the papers presented will be of interest to aestheticians. Those interested … Read More
June 4-5 2014, Central European University, Faculty Tower 809 Organised by the What it is to be human research group Programme June 4 13:15 – 13:30 Welcome 13:30 – 14:15 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Gulf University): Kitsch and Bullshit: An Ethical Fault … Read More
The University of Liverpool and the BSA are delighted to announce the launch of the BSA Philosophy in the Gallery Lecture Series, which will be taking place throughout North-West England over the coming months. The opening talk takes place on … Read More
4-6pm May 22 2014, Annexe, Building R, Stadcampus, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Abstract: I will examine three theories according to which emotions are perceptions: (1) Jesse Prinz’s view in Gut Reactions, (2) the “neo-sentimentalist” view that emotions are … Read More
September 27-28 2014 , Torun, Poland Research Areas: Philosophy of Music; Cultural Studies; Musicology; Choreography and Dance Studies; Psychology of Music; Sociology of Music; others related. Organised by the Centre For Philosophical Research (main organizer); Department of the History of … Read More
The conference ‘Truth, Image, Normativity’ focuses on the philosophy of image, both as cognitive image (mnemonic representations, images in metaphors and figurative languages), and as graphic image (graphic representations, drawings). Reflection on figurative languages and visual non-linguistic communication leads us … Read More
The International Research Training Group “InterArt”, in cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI), will host an international conference on “The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics, and Everyday Life” from June 19 to June 21. Doubt pervades … Read More
19-20 May 2014 This conference will examine the motivations behind the project of defining art. Recent voices in the philosophy of art have argued that the project has been wrongheaded and irrelevant. The most plausible of the contemporary attempts to … Read More