Activities supported by the society
The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to present: Professor David Davies (McGill) “Descriptivism and Its Discontents” Thursday, 28th April, 2016, 4:00 – 5:30pm S37 (Room 2.37), 7 George Square, University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and open to all! … Read More
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday,16 March 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 246 Peter Kivy (Rutgers) Knowledge and Novel Knowledge: Quelle Difference? I have written often and at times at length on the question of whether … Read More
Deadline 15th March 2016 24–25 June 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury Video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. Many of them possess a wide array of artistic and aesthetic qualities and there is growing … Read More
1st-2nd April 2016, University of Southampton, UK We are pleased to be able to open the call for registration to the 2016 BSA Postgraduate Conference. This conference will provide a platform for postgraduate aestheticians to present their research and share … Read More
The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to present: Dr Catharine Abell (Manchester) “The Interpretation of Fiction” Friday, 18th March, 2016, 4:00 – 5:30pm Room 3.11, Dugald Stewart Building University of Edinburgh www.facebook.com/events/234931056842705/ The lecture is free and open to all! … Read More
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 10 February 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 243 Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham) Imaginative Envisioning: Challenges in Rilke and Kafka To see or perceive visually is one thing; to introspectively imagine or … Read More
Symposium and Film Screening On Cinema, Embodiment and the Aesthetics of Pornograph Information and registration: confinedprojections With the generous support of: The British Society of Aesthetics The Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent The Centre for Film and Media Research, … Read More
Wednesday, 27 January 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 243 Emily Caddick Bourne (Cambridge) Causes and Quasi-Miracles in Narrative Understanding Narratives provide understanding of the events they represent, organising them, as David Velleman puts it, into an intelligible … Read More
The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “Pictures are surfaces with marks on them. Different kinds of pictures have different kinds of marks, produced in different ways. The marks themselves have an interest in painting and drawing which … Read More
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 28th October 2015 | 16:00 – 18:00 Senate House, Room 243 Kristin Gjesdal (Temple) Poetry, Criticism, and the End of Art: Herder and the Promise of Enlightenment Aesthetics The talk will be free … Read More