X-Phi Aesthetics Workshop Series

X-Phi Aesthetics Workshop Series

VALUES AND CONCEPTS OF ART
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014, 10:00-16:00

"What is art?" is arguably the most central question in philosophical aesthetics. This
international, interdisciplinary workshop aims to make progress on this question by thinking
about the interplays between values and concepts of art.

Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)
Christy Mag Uidhir (University of Houston)
Florian Cova (University of Geneva)
Aaron Meskin and Shen-yi Liao (University of Leeds / Nanyang Technological University)

Leeds Humanities Research Institute
29-31 Clarendon Place
Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT

The workshop is free and open to all. Please register at http://goo.gl/tqrCUN .

For abstracts of presentations, please visit
http://xphiaesthetics.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/workshop-values-and-concepts-of-art/

For other upcoming workshops in this series, please visit
http://xphiaesthetics.wordpress.com/workshops/

Part of the Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics and Human Nature project, supported by
Marie Curie Action Grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977.