British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference

September 19, 2014 - September 21, 2014
St Anne's College, Oxford University

Oxford
United Kingdom

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Speakers:

Peter Greenaway
(unaffiliated)
Michael G. F. Martin
University College London
Jenefer Robinson
University of Cincinnati

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Full programme and registration available at:

http://british-aesthetics.org/conference/annual-conference-2014/

Book before 15 August for:

- early bird discounted fees
- BSA member discounts
- generous postgraduate subsidies
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati)
M.G.F. Martin (UCL/Berkeley)
Peter Greenaway will deliver The William Empson Lecture 

PAPERS
Robert Briscoe (Ohio), ‘A Deep Resemblance Theory of Depiction’
Lisa Schmalzried (Lucerne), ‘A Kantian Character-Expressionist Theory of Human Beauty'
Nicholas Silins (Cornell /Yale), ‘What Is The Scope Of Aesthetic Experience?’
Katherine Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College), ‘Appreciating Digital Cinema’
Alberto Voltolini (Turin), ‘Pictorial Experience: Wollheim Reassessed and Vindicated’
Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College), ‘Re-thinking Moral Character’
Lorraine Yeung Ka Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University), ‘Towards an Affective Appraisal Theory of Horror’

SYMPOSIA
‘Aesthetic Intuitions’
Stacie Friend (Birkbeck), ‘Intuitions about Fiction and Fictional Intuitions’; Christy Mag Uidhir (Houston), ‘Everyone’s a Critic: Epistemic Privilege & Art Intuitions’; Jonathan Weinberg (Arizona), ‘Are Aesthetic Intuitions Looking Good?’

‘Fiction and the Sciences’
Adam Toon (Exeter), ‘Models as Make-Believe’; Martin Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College), ‘Realism about Missing Systems’; David Davies (McGill University), ‘Fictionalism and the Cognitive Values of Scientific Models’

‘The Return of Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics’
Florian Cova (Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences), ‘Is What I’m Feeling Genuine? Fiction versus Reality’; Lily Guillot (Yale), ‘Exploring the Developmental Roots of the Paradox of Horror’; Shen-yi Liao (Leeds / Nanyang Technological University) & Aaron Meskin (Leeds), ‘Aesthetic Testimony and Other Testimony’

2014 BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
Jake Quilty-Dunn (CUNY) ‘Believing Our Eyes: The Role of False Belief in the Experience of Cinema’

POSTGRADUATE PAPERS
Adriana Clavel Vasquez (Sheffield), ‘Imaginative Resistance and Response Moralism’
Kris Goffin (Ghent), ‘Can Aesthetic Properties be Emotionally Represented?’
Simone Gubler (Texas), ‘Reflections on Still Life’
John Holliday (Maryland), ‘Sonicity and the Performance of Reading’
Zoe Jenkin (Harvard), ‘Cognitive Penetration of the Perception of Art: Epistemic and Aesthetic Divergence’
Marilynn Johnson (CUNY), ‘Reference Through Instruments'
Jenny Judge (Cambridge), ‘Musical Metre’
Robbie Kubala (Columbia), Philosophy, Literature, and Emotional Engagement;
Giulia Martina (Turin), ‘Grounding Musical Experience’                    
Annelies Monseré (Ghent), ‘The Charge from Psychology and the Project of Defining Art’
Shelby Moser (Kent), ‘Analysing the Interactivity of Computer Art as a Distinct Form’
Nils-Hennes Stear (Michigan), ‘Imaginative Failure: a Genuine Puzzle’

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Bence Nanay (Cambridge/Antwerp) chair
David Davies (McGill)
Áine Mahon (University College Dublin)
Murray Smith (Kent)
Dawn Wilson (Hull)

Programme subject to change

BSA annual conference, St Anne's College, Oxford, 19-21 September 2014

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