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The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. DUTIES OF POST WEBSITEThe Editor will be responsible for editing and maintaining website content, making sure all pages are relevant, accurate, … Read More

General Issue 2026 The editors of ‘Debates in Aesthetics’ are pleased to invite submissions for the 2026 General Issue (Vol.21, No. 1). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 9th January 2026 For this issue we welcome original articles, book reviews, and interviews on … Read More

 The 10th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music & Philosophy Study Group, Dublin City University, Thursday and Friday, 9–10 July 2026 https://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/call-for-papers-mpsg26/ Keynote speakers to be announced The RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group warmly invites session and paper proposals for this two-day international … Read More

25-27 November 2025, University of Genoa Concrete objects such as tables, chairs, hammers, or screwdrivers are usually cast as paradigm artifacts. More recently, the philosophy of technology has paid attention also to abstract artifacts such as algorithms or recipes. Yet, … Read More

10-12 November 2025, University of Genoa  This conference is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel In recent years, the notion of rules has garnered significant attention across several domains, including the ontology of … Read More

University of Southampton. Department of Philosophy; 12th – 13th January 2026 Supported by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the British Society of Aesthetics Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki), Prof. Severin Schroeder (University of … Read More

Call for Abstracts – ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress: Fiction and Lies The Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality / Société Internationale des Recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité invites submissions on the theme of Fiction and Lies, for the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress. 10-12 June … Read More

As part of our commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion within British Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, the British Society of Aesthetics bestows up to two New Horizons Awards for the best papers submitted to the Annual Conference by members … Read More

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Wednesday, June 4 to Saturday, June 7   Co-hosted by the University of Alberta and the University of Lethbridge About the Conference SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, … Read More

This event brings together celebrated authors and scholars to discuss the experience and depiction of the self in the twenty-first century. Date: 16.06.25 Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered … Read More

Dr Scarlett Baron (UCL English) and Alice Harberd (PhD student in UCL Philosophy) have launched a new UCL podcast, Selfy Stories. The podcast distils the discussions held in a Philosophy and Literature Reading Group which ran at UCL during the … Read More

Programme All sessions on Warwick campus, in Social Sciences 0.20 (aka S0.20 – campus map) Friday 6 June 2025 10.00-10.30: Welcome and Coffee/Tea 10.30-12.00: Zach Weinstein (Auburn), ‘Celebration: What It Is and Why It Matters’ Respondents: Karen Simecek (Warwick) and David … Read More