HOW TO MAKE BELIEVE: FICTIONAL TRUTHS & REPRESENTATIONAL ART
University of Lund (Sweden) - March 15-17, 2012
n 1990, two books dealing with the notion of fiction as make-believe were published within Aesthetics and Analytical Philosophy: Kendall Walton's Mimesis and Make-Believe and Gregory Currie's The Nature of Fiction. Both books explain fictionality in analogy to children's games of make-believe. Walton's and Currie's extensive and integrative theoretical approaches mainly focus on the general perspective. Their analyses and theoretical framework both give reason and leave room for further exploration of various similarities and differences between possible and specific instances of fiction as make-believe in the representational arts. Keynote speakers for the event are Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham, UK),Peter Lamarque (University of York, UK), Stein Haugom Olsen (Hogskolen i Ostfold, Norway), Kendall L. Walton (University of Michigan, USA). For more information, please click here.
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CORFU MUSIC AND PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE: TIME THEORIES AND MUSIC
April 27 - 29, 2012, Corfu
The philosophy of time occupies a great part in the metaphysics discussion of both continental and analytic philosophy. From Aristotle through Augustine to Bergson, Husserl, McTaggart, Prior and Tooley – to name but a few-, different conceptions of time have been proposed, ranging from phenomenological approaches to the so-called New B-Theories of time. At the same time, interesting connections can be observed from time theories to the philosophy of history, as well as to other cardinal philosophical issues, like modalities, reference, indexicals, persistence through time, antirealism etc. On the other hand, given the philosophical significance of time in music, it is only surprising that so little attention is directed to any and all of the above-described themes in theorizing about music. The official languages of the Conference are Greek, French, English. For information please contact the secretary to the Conference dr Petros Andriotis: pandriot@ionio.gr
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2012 ISPA CONFERENCE: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 11th-13th 2012
Philosophical aesthetics has traditionally been more concerned with the judgement of artworks and the experience of art than with the natural beauty or the qualities of designed landscapes - or the sorts of experiences which such places might provide. Similarly, traditional ethics assigned intrinsic value and moral standing to humans alone and seemed incapable of addressing the harm which humans were capable of doing to the environment. Over the last forty years, both aesthetics and ethics have expanded their outlook in response to the widespread sense of environmental crisis. Environmental ethicists have suggested that not just humans, but such things as animals, plants, species, habitats, islands, forests, ecosystems and the biosphere, might have intrinsic value and that we might thus have duties towards them. Aestheticians, meanwhile, have turned their attention to a wide range of landscapes, including wilderness, traditional and industrial farms, and designed landscapes such as parks, gardens and other forms of greenspace associated with the built environment. Environmental concerns have moved aesthetics away from an elite preoccupation with art, towards consideration of the quotidian, the everyday. Registration opens on the 30th April 2012. For more information, visit the conference website.
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