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Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the belief systems of the cultures in which they develop and function. Such belief systems vary from unarticulated background assumptions to ritualized practices and explicit doctrines or … Read More

Aesthetic Investigations solicits contributions for its second issue. Submission may relate to the calls below, but need not. For calls for future issues, please consult the website. Articles 2015 Winter (deadline for submission: September 15 2015): How does one make … Read More

Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2015 This issue of The Monist addresses the relations between the debate on scientific models in philosophy of science and the debate on the nature of fiction in aesthetics. Although a precursor of the analogy … Read More

Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos To be published in the BRILL “Philosophy of Film” Series. Deadline for abstracts: Sept. 30 2015. Deadline for final papers: June 30 2016. Can Neoplatonic philosophy be used for film studies? Given the … Read More

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August, 10th to 14th, 2015 Placing Art and Music in Nature: KNEW 2015 Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of these … Read More

October 7-9, 2015 CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Jewish Culture, University of Copenhagen Abstract: This interdisciplinary conference, workshop and PhD course is dedicated to an analysis of interviews with Holocaust survivors. An exemplary recording from the … Read More

The new Brill book series, Studies in Somaesthetics is inviting manuscripts for its first volume provisionally entitled “Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics” to be edited by Richard Shusterman. The collected volume of essays will be partly based on papers originally presented … Read More

Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a two-day conference, January 28–29, 2016, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Bodies are obviously the targets of one’s … Read More

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Strand Campus, King’s College London 17-18 July 2015 Co-hosted by the Departments of Music and Philosophy … Read More

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

2-3 April, 2016, San Francisco Organised by the ArtSense Taste and Community project (Australian Research Council funded project) Submission Deadline: 31st October 2015 This workshop is also sponsored by the American Society of Aesthetics; and hosted in part by the … Read More

6-8 April 2016, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California AESTHETICS IN ASILOMAR: A TRADITION. The Asilomar Conference Grounds on the Monterey peninsula have served as the stage for the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics for over … Read More