Authenticity and Art

X-Phi Aesthetics Workshop Series

AUTHENTICITY AND ART
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014, 2014, 15:30-18:00

In general, we seem to have a preference for “the real thing”. We tend to like people who we find genuine. We tend to find authentic food more delicious. However, nowhere is this preference more apparent than in the domain of artworks. We look down upon copies, replicas, and forgeries because they lack the aesthetic virtue of authenticity. But why is this? This workshop explores recent advances in the cognitive science of art, and their philosophical implications.

Gregory Currie (philosophy, University of York)
George Newman (management, Yale 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 . There is limited space for dinner. Please make a note in the registration form if you would like to come.

For abstracts of presentations, please visit
https://xphiaesthetics.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/workshop-authenticity-and-art/

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

This workshop is a part of the Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics and Human Nature project, supported by Marie Curie Action Grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977. It is also part of the Ethics / Aesthetics Seminar Series at the University of Leeds.