London Aesthetics Forum

2009/10 MEETINGS

Details of the 2009/10 series appear here. Unless stated otherwise, meetings generally take place on a fortnightly Wednesday on the ground floor of Senate House south block, WC1. Email here for more details.

SPRING 2010

Jan 27 4-6pm
A. W. Price (BBK)
'Community and Recollection in the Aesthetics of Jean-Marie Guyau'

10 Feb 5-7pm (G35) - Paul Snowdon (UCL)
Music, Importance and Meaning

24 Feb 4-6pm (G37) - Matthew Kieran (Leeds)
The Character of Creativity

3 Mar 3-5pm (G37) - Anil Gomes (BBK)
Iris Murdoch, Joint Attention and Music

RECENT AUTUMN 2009 MEETINGS

14 Oct 2009, 6-8pm
John Hyman (Oxford): Is resemblance a relation?
G37, Senate House south block

28 Oct 2009, 3-5pm
Dawn Phillips (Warwick): Visual Composing: Works of Music and Works of Photography
G37, Senate House

4 Nov, 2-4 pm
Julia Peters (ECLA, Berlin): Is there Progress in Art?
G21A, Senate House

25 Nov, 5-7 pm
Jinhee Choi (Kent): Epochal Sensibilities and Beautiful Objects
NB. McFetridge Room, Bbk Philosophy Dept, 14 Gower St

4 Dec (Friday), 3-5 pm
Alva Noe (UC Berkeley): Art as Philosophical Practice
G37, Senate House

PAST 2008/09 MEETINGS

Tom Crowther (Heythrop): Perceptual Activity and Seeing-in

Mark Rowe (UEA): Literature, Knowledge, and the Aesthetic Attitude

Stefano Predelli (Nottingham): Monsters: Some Remarks on the Semantics of Fictional Discourse

Alex Neill (Southampton): Schopenhauer on the Sublime

Patrick Maynard (Western Ontario): Depictive Contents

Paul Smith (Warwick, Art History): Cezanne's phenomenal grammar?

John Kulvicki (Dartmouth): Heavenly Sight and the Nature of Seeing-in

Semir Zeki (UCL, Neurobiology): The Neurobiological Study of Aesthetics

Kathleen Stock (Sussex): Fantasy and Cinema

Jerrold Levinson (Maryland): Toward a Non-Minimalist Conception of Aesthetic Experience

Derek Matravers (Open): Reading Without the Imagination

Marie McGinn (UEA): Beckett and Wittgenstein on not Gassing

PAST 2007/08 MEETINGS

Joerg Widmann: Ad absurdum - Compositional Strategies in Schumann and the 20th Century Solo Concerto
co-hosted by the Institute of Musical Research

Barry Smith: Is a sip worth a thousand words?

Peter Lamarque: On Bringing a Work into Existence

Diarmuid Costello: Kant and Danto: together at last?

Greg Currie: Pictures of King Arthur: Photography and the power of narrative

Jenefer Robinson: Some problems relating to emotion in the arts

Jonathan Friday (Kent): The Experience of Stillness and Motion in Still Photography

Robert Hopkins (Sheffield): Inflected Seeing-in: its Treatment and Significance

Andy Hamilton (Durham): Rhythm and Time: A Major and Almost Entirely Neglected Philosophical Problem

Christoph Menke (Potsdam): Yes-Saying. On Nietzsche's Notion of Aesthetic Freedom

Lydia Goehr: 'Must my skin be made the prize? This for a silly pipe?' (Ovid). Wind and Strings in the Education of Humanity

Roberto Casati: Drawing, Gestures and Recognition

Christopher Peacocke: The Perception of Music: Sources of Significance

Andrew Bowie: The Redundancy of Analytical Aesthetics


PAST 2006/07 MEETINGS

Tomas Kulka (Prague) What is Kitsch?

John Kulvicki (Dartmouth) Artifact Expression

Kendall Walton (Michigan) Poets, Musical Personae and Speechwriters

Jerrold Levinson (Maryland) Beauty is not

Peter Goldie (Manchester) A Virtue Theory of Art

Peter Kivy (Rutgers) Mozart's Skull: Looking for Genius (in all the wrong places)

Eileen John (Warwick) Literature and the Recognition of Morality

Joshua Landy (Stanford) A Nation of Madame Bovarys: on the Problematic Possibility and Dubious Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction

M.G.F. Martin (UCL) 'Images in the Round'

John Hyman (Oxford) 'Art and Optics'

Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) 'How to fill a Fictional Prescription'

Aaron Meskin (Leeds) 'Art, Art-form, Medium, Genre: Prospects for Definition'

Anthony Savile (Kings College, London) 'Aesthetic Delight and its Sources'

Matthew Kieran (Leeds) 'Is Aesthetic Knowledge Possible?: Aesthetic Virtue, Reliabilism and The Problem of Snobbery'