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The 2020 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Society of Aesthetics will be the division’s second meeting at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, CA. The organisers invite paper submissions on any topic in aesthetics, broadly construed. Papers … Read More

The 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Aesthetics of Computer Games Conference Committee: Program Chair: Feng Zhu (King’s College London) feng.zhu@kcl.ac.uk Conference Chairs: Alina Latypova (St Petersburg State University) latypova.al@gmail.com Konstantin Ocheretyany (St Petersburg State University) … Read More

Queen Mary University of London, November 15-16, 2019 Website available here. The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics. Confirmed keynotes: Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Dr Stacie Friend, … Read More

University of Southampton Friday 14th June Organiser Daniel Whiting Details This is the second in a series of workshops on Higher-Order Evidence in Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/S006338/1). Humans are fallible: we … Read More

The BSA is happy to support Notes From a Biscuit Tin, inspired by Mary Midgley’s actual biscuit tin! This year-long project will bring together philosophers and poets to spark new thoughts from one another and celebrate the philosophical work of … Read More

The editors of Debates in Aesthetics are pleased to invite submissions for the Summer/Autumn 2019 issue (Vol.16, No. 1). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 July 2019 For this issue we welcome original articles, book reviews, and interviews from postgraduate and professional … Read More

University of Kent, Canterbury, 25-27 October 2019 Deadline for Abstracts 1 June The organising committee of the BSA Synergy Conference How to Do Things With Jokes seek high quality abstracts for presentations in our open sessions. The conference will be … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum: Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Autonomy in Kant’s Aesthetics Friday 24 May, 4-6pm, Senate House: room G35. Abstract: Aesthetic hedonism is the view that to be aesthetically good is to please. For most aesthetic hedonists, the normativity of … Read More

The two-day workshop ‘Philosophy of Music – Perspectives on Antiquity’ will take place from 11-12 July 2019 at Durham University (The Castle, Senate Suite). It brings together scholars specialising in ancient music with experts in (the history of) the philosophy … Read More

CFP for a Special Issue of the Aesthetics Investigations Journal dedicated to the Philosophy of Film Without Theory. Journal Editor-in-Chief: Rob van Gerwen (University of Utrecht) Special Issue Guest Editors: Craig Fox (California University of Pennsylvania) & Britt Harrison (University … Read More

CFP from the Polish Journal of Aesthetics: “New Materialism: The Mattering of the Arts, Crafts, and Aesthetics” Editors: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (University of Turku, Finland; University of Melbourne, Australia), Milla Tiainen (University of Turku, Finland), Adrian Mróz (The Jagiellonian University in … Read More

Department of Philosophy (University of Rijeka) and Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a Call for papers for the international conference dedicated to the aesthetic theory of Immanuel Kant Kant’s Third Critique: Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance To be held … Read More