Activities supported by the society
Call for Registration: Understanding Value IV, University of Sheffield, 29th – 31st of July Keynote Speakers: •Eileen John (Warwick) •Simon James (Durham) •Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield) We are glad to announce that registration for the ‘Understanding Value IV’ conference, at the … Read More
22nd–23rd June 2015, Humanities Research Centre, University of York Registration is now open for the SWIP-associated mentoring and networking workshop for graduate and early career women in philosophy. We invite women to register for the workshop by Monday 1st June … Read More
The Emotions of Others explores our understanding of the knowledge of emotions and their signature facial expressions. The documentary essay features a diverse range of filmed participants, combined with a conversation between a ‘voice of doubt’ and a ‘voice of … Read More
26-27 June 2015, University of Kent Sponsors British Society for Aesthetics Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Keynote Speakers Maria Alvarez (KCL) Carla Bagnoli (Pisa) Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open) John Hyman (Oxford) Aaron Ridley (Southampton) Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Uppsala) … Read More
Friday 27 March 2015, University of Warwick Please join us for a day of wide-ranging discussion of the complex goods, experiences, processes, problems, and creative possibilities that converge in meals. Speakers and roundtable participants: Dr Rosemary Collier; Dr Carol Bryce; … Read More
The fifth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society and De Musica – Laboratório de Estética e Filosofia da Música (Brasil). Optional) … Read More
19-20 May 2015, Leeds, UK (Please note the revised submission deadline and format.) We invite papers that are on the conference themes: the psychological, political, and methodological intersections between philosophical studies of race and aesthetics. Please send either a *4000-word … Read More
13-14 February 2015, 09:30 – 18:30 A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick. Hosted by the Institute for Philosophy, London: Fri 13- Sat 14 … Read More
Catharine Abell (Manchester) Wednesday, 4th February 2014 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 102 I argue that what’s true according to a fiction is given by the contents of authors’ fiction-making illocutionary acts. According to this account, much less … 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