Activities supported by the society
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
Wednesday, 23rd September 2015 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 234 Kendall Walton (University of Michigan/Stanford University) How to Think about Fiction (and how not to) The talk will be free and open to all. For more information please … Read More
Institute of Philosophy, London, September 16-17, 2015. The conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception has been used in as diverse corners of aesthetics and philosophy of art as debates about depiction, aesthetic experiences, character engagement, our engagement with fictions, our … Read More
The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics invites high quality contributions for a special issue on the work of Professor Stephen Davies (University of Auckland) to be published in mid-2016. The deadline for receipt of submission is: 15 February 2016. We invite … Read More
September 16-17, 2015, Institute of Philosophy, London The conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception has been used in as diverse corners of aesthetics and philosophy of art as debates about depiction, aesthetic experiences, character engagement, our engagement with fictions, our … Read More
We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Strand Campus, King’s College London 17-18 July 2015 Co-hosted by the Departments of Music and Philosophy … Read More