Aesthetic Reading Group

 

Convenors: Neri Marsili and Enrico Terrone

 

Monday, October 28, 15.00 – 17.00

Garcia-Carpintero. Manuel (2019): “Assertions in Fictions: An Indirect Speech Act Account”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 96(3), 445-462

 

Tuesday, November 5, 16.00 – 18.00

Robson, Jon. 2015. Norms of Belief and Norms of Assertion in Aesthetics. Philosophers’ Imprint 15 (6).

 

Music

Monday, November 18, 15.00 – 17.00

Theodore Gracyk. 2013. Meanings of Songs and Meanings of Song Performances, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 23-33.

 

Monday, December 2, 15.00 – 17.00
Julian Dodd. 2018. What 4′33′′ Is, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96:4, 629-641

 

Film

Monday, December 9, 15.00 – 17.00

Esa Diaz-Leon, draft, Carol and Philosophy: Hermeneutical Injustice, Identity, and Objectification 

 

Monday, December 15, 15.00 – 17.00

A. W. Eaton "What’s Wrong with the (Female)

Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography" (2012). 

 

Testimony

Monday, January 27, 15.00 – 17.00

Hopkins, Robert (2011). How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony. Journal of Philosophy 108 (3):138-157.

 

Thursday, February 13, 15.00 – 17.00

Franzén, Nils. 2018. Aesthetic Evaluation and First-Hand Experience. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

 

Monday, March 2, 15.00 – 17.00
Nguyen, C. Thi (forthcoming). Autonomy and aesthetic engagement. Mind.

 

Lies

Monday, March 23, 15.00 – 17.00
Mahon, J.E. Novels Never Lie. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 59, 3.  

Monday, April 6, 15.00-17.00

Viebahn, Emanuel. 2019. Lying with Pictures. British Journal of Aesthetics, 58–59.

 

Monday, April 20, 15.00 – 17.00

Cooke, Brandon. 2019. When Art Can’t Lie. The British Journal of Aesthetics.

 

 

Various Topics

 

Monday, May 4, 15-17 

W. K. Wimsatt Jr., and M. C. Beardsley. 1946. The Intentional Fallacy. The Sewanee Review 54 (3)

 

15 May 2020, 11.30  

Tom Cochrane,“In Defence of Aestheticism”

(AMA/AE Joint Session)

 

1 June 2020, 15.00-17.00

John Kulvicki (Dartmouth), Selection from “Speaking with Pictures”, AMA/AE Joint Session

 

22 June 2020, 17.00-19.00

Sherri Irvin (Oklahoma), "Immaterial: The Rules of Contemporary Art", AMA/AE Joint Session

 

29 June, 15.00 – 17.00

Adam Andrzejewski, draft, Improvisation and Everyday Aesthetics  

  

15 June, 15.00-17.00

George M. Wilson, Elusive Narrators in Literature, Chapter 5 of his book "Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies" (2011)

 

29 June, 15.00-17.00

George M. Wilson, Elusive Narrators in Film, Chapter 6 of his book Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies (2011)

6 July, 15h00

Neri Marsili, "Fiction, assertion and implicature" (draft)

 

13 July, 15h00

Stacie Friend, "Fiction and emotion: the puzzle of divergent norms", The British Journal of Aesthetics (2020)