British Society of Aesthetics Conference 2012

Keynote Address

Kendall Walton (University of Michigan) “Being Intimate with Art”  

The William Empson Lecture

Jancis Robinson, OBE “The Aesthetics of Wine and Grapes”  

Papers 

Thomas Adajian (James Madison University) “Disjunctive Definitions of Art”  

Elisa Caldarola (Università di Padova) “Representation without Background”  

Tom Cochrane (Queen’s University Belfast) “Narrative and Self-Becoming”  

Iskra Fileva (University of North Carolina) “Historical Inaccuracy in Art”  

Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) “The Problem with Performing”  

Matthew Rowe (Independent Scholar) “Sloppy Realisations: An Exit from Goodman’s Sorites Argument”  

Erik Schmidt (Gonzaga University) “False Gaze - Othello, Kant and the Threat of Deceptive Truths”  

Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Unethical Acts”

Postgraduate Papers

Max Bialek (University of Maryland) “Some Ontology of Jokes”  

Wesley Cray (The Ohio State University) “Some Ideas about Ideas and the Idea Idea”  

Samantha Matherne (University of California) “The Inclusive Interpretation of Kant’s Aesthetic Ideas”  

Rafe McGregor (University of York) “On Not Expecting Too Much from the Value Interaction Debate”  

Dominic Preston (University of Cambridge) “The Ontology of Interactive Art”  

David Sackris (University of Buffalo) “Category-Independent Aesthetic Experience”

Maarten Steenhagen (UCL) “'Non-Conceptualised’ Depiction”    

Nicholas Wong (University of Chicago) “Reproducing the Brillo Box: A Special Case of Forgery in 1968”  

Registration

The deadline for early booking is August 15. The BSA provides a subsidised rate for students enrolled in masters and doctoral programmes. Registration and the full program are available at: