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14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/beautydemands This workshop focuses on whether a global dominant beauty norm is emerging; one with less cultural variation and less sites of resistance. Some practices suggest this … Read More

September 20 – 23 , 2015 at Cloister Heiligkreuztal CALL FOR APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2015 — Topic “De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum,” was a maxim of scholastic philosophy, stating that matters of taste can’t be rationally solved. … Read More

28 August 2015, University of Sydney Topic: 18th Century Philosophy in Dialogue The Research Day will begin with an interdisciplinary panel discussion with experts from a number of fields speaking on the relationships between philosophy, music, literature, art and architecture … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its fourth lecture: Professor Emily Brady (Edinburgh) “Sublimity and Art” Wednesday, 10th June, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20, University of Edinburgh (https://www.facebook.com/events/1590208141234748/) The lecture is free and open … Read More

Volume 17, Number 1 Issue date: January 2016 Submission deadline: September 30, 2015 Editor: Robert Fudge (Weber State University) Contemporary analytic philosophers typically treat ethics and aesthetics as largely distinct areas of concern. This contrasts with much of the history … Read More

Abstracts are invited for a proposed special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on the theme of language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British Idealists. We invite contributions which explore these themes as … Read More

University of Warwick, 6 February 2016 Deadline for submission: 15 September, 2015 Confirmed Keynote speakers: Professor Bill Gray (University of Chichester), Professor Arthur Graesser (Memphis, Oxford) Conference website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ssc/ The success of recent Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, the movie … Read More

October 29-31, 2015, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas After Valladolid in 2014, Braga will host the second Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics. These meetings intend to foster the collaboration between Portuguese and Spanish scholars on … Read More

19-20 May 2015, Leeds, UK This is the final call for registration for Race and Aesthetics: A British Society of Aesthetics Connections Conference. The registration deadline is this Wednesday, May 13th. Conference information, including conference themes, the program, talk abstracts, … Read More

A volume edited by Pieter Vermaas & Stéphane Vial Philosophical interest in design and design research is increasing in both philosophy and design research, offering the possibility of the emergence of the new scholarly field of philosophy of design. 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 University of the West of England (UWE) Philosophy Annual Graduate Conference invites philosophical and performance submissions on the topic of sound. We take sound to mean any acoustic phenomena in nature involved in communication and information grounding theoretical and … Read More