Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen Room 208/209, Sydnesplassen 12/13 4-6 June 2013 Wednesday, June 4th 11.45 – 12.30 Lunch will be served in room 210 (coffee, tea, sandwiches) 12.30 – 12.45 Welcome 12.45 – 14.45 Keynote lecture by Marina … Read More
The final two of the BSA Cambridge Lecture Series are as follows: 22 April: Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex: ‘Sexual Objectification, Perception, and Images’. 1 May: Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland: ‘Ain’t that a Shame: Shame in General, and Shame … Read More
The Department of Philosophy at Temple University announces a one-day conference on Friday, May 9, 2014 in honour of Joseph Margolis’s 90th birthday. The conference will be replete with both scholarly papers and personal reminiscences. All are welcome, and there … Read More
Centre for Philosophical Psychology (University of Antwerp) and Ghent Aesthetics Research Group (Ghent University) present Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati) and Nick Zangwill (Hull). In her book “Deeper than Reason”, Jenefer Robinson argues that emotion plays a significant role in our appreciation of … Read More
Philosophy@UWS, in collaboration with Fordham University Press, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the State Library of New South Wales warmly invite you to the 2014 “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society.” This year’s lectures, titled The … Read More
University of Manchester 14 May, 2014. Limited places remaining (for attendees only) Attendees are invited to book a place on the following event. Tickets are limited, and available via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-ruins-the-aesthetics-and-politics-of-supersized-decay-tickets-10733583437?aff=eorg As global capitalism intensifies its hold on the … Read More
June 4-5, 2014, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Organized by the research group What is it to be human? Keynote speaker: Jesse Prinz, CUNY, New York The conference investigates the current philosophical discussions about the various connections between art and … Read More
University of Nottingham, 11-12 July 2014 The emergence of the modern sense of critical time that Reinhart Koselleck defined as the „Verzeitlichung“ (temporalization) of all areas of human knowledge around 1800, of subjectivity, history and nature in the modern experience … Read More
4.30-6pm, 26 March 2014, Heythrop College (Room TBC) Followed by a wine reception Abstract In an essay that has become something of a classic in the literature, Noel Carroll expressed the happy thought that “When we read a literary text … Read More
Third Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture March 20, 4-6pm, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Discussions of aesthetic experience from a naturalistic perspective have almost always begun from the standpoint of a perceiver confronting the external world of people, places, … Read More