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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 2015 AGM of the British Society of Aesthetics takes place on Saturday 19 September at Homerton College, Cambridge, from 13:00-13:30. All members are welcome. Agenda 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of the last meeting 3.Matters arising 4.President’s report 5.Vice-President’s report … Read More

Editors: Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer There has been very little convergence between documentary film studies and cognitive film theory. Documentary scholars deem cognitive models too limited in that they only address the hardwired attributes of audience reception, thus hypothesising … Read More

26-28 November 2015, Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Organization: Albert Newen, Kevin Reuter, Pascale Willemsen It is our pleasure to announce the first conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany. It will take place at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, from … Read More

6 February 2016, University of Warwick Deadline for submission: 30 September, 2015 Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Bill Gray (University of Chichester) Professor Max Louwerse (Universiteit van Tilburg) The success of recent Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, the movie Wild Tales, … Read More

January, 20–22, 2016, Institute of Jewish Studies/Centre for European Philosophy (University of Antwerp) Submission deadline: 20 September 2015 One cannot effectively approach Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical works without recognizing the importance modern literature plays in his writings. From Baudelaire to Dostojevski, … 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

November 16-19, 2016 Renaissance Seattle Hotel Seattle, WA Submission deadline: February 15, 2016. Papers on any topic in aesthetics or the philosophy of art are invited, as well as proposals for panels, author-meets-critics sessions, and other special sessions. We welcome … Read More

Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Edited by Robert Stecker and Theodore Gracyk Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2016 As the American Society for Aesthetics and its official journal approach their … Read More

Performance Philosophy Volume 2 (2016) Edited by Daniel Watt Deadline for submissions: 30th November 2015 This is an open call for submissions to Volume 2 of the online journal, Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, … Read More

Several decades ago environmental aesthetics emerged as a sub-discipline of philosophy. The number of published works in the field continues to grow. So, too, do the number of students and scholars who have become interested in the interdisciplinary possibilities and … Read More

Theme: Aesthetics of Urban Life Guest Editor: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University Submission Deadline: 31 December 2015 Submission Guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20&page=instructions Urban life has long been of interest to philosophers and has played an important role in the work of phenomenologists at … Read More