Supported by the and the ÌÇĐÄÊÓÆ”

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki), Prof. Severin Schroeder (University of Reading)

Calling for abstracts of up to 1000 words, suitable for a 40-minute presentation, followed by twenty minutes of Q&A. We welcome submissions from people at all career stages, but especially encourage them from early career researchers.

There will be five slots for submitted papers.

Important updates and information about the event can be found at:

Workshop Rubric:

It is well known that Wittgenstein was inspired by Schopenhauer; a small tradition in the literature already discusses a number of notable commonalities and developments between the two thinkers. Yet, much of this literature is dated, and there remain many regrettably overlooked connections between these historical giants. In particular, many such connections lie between their multifaceted engagements with questions of value – with ethics and aesthetics.

The workshop aims to bring together leading scholars and emerging researchers to spark new discussions on Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein’s views on ethics and aesthetics—thereby uncovering new connections between the two. We seek to platform talks on intriguing and underexplored aspects of Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein’s thinking on value, including (but by no means limited to):

• The ethical and aesthetic dimensions of their shared fascination with the transcendental
• The notion of seeing the world sub specie aeternitatis (from the perspective of eternity)
• Schopenhauer’s presentation of aesthetic contemplation, and its resonance in Wittgenstein
• The respective roles played by meaning (Bedeutung) in our engagements with value
• The impression of mysticism in Wittgenstein’s philosophy and its ancestry in Schopenhauer’s work
• The role of the willing subject in both thinkers’ accounts of action and ethics, and in their broader philosophical frameworks

Abstracts discussing the work of both thinkers are especially desirable, but this is NOT a strict requirement. Talks discussing the views of either thinker on any topic in aesthetics/ethics are very welcome.

Submission:

Please submit your abstract, prepared for blind review, to philfos@soton.ac.uk by 1st October 2025. Please use “EASW Abstract Submission” as the subject line, and mention in the body of the email whether you are an early career researcher (understood to mean no more than four years beyond the completion of a PhD).

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email the organisers (djk1g21@soton.ac.uk) to be sent a registration form. This should be completed and returned before 5th December 2025.

Financial Provision:

Overnight accommodation will be provided to all speakers – further financial contributions toward speakers’ travel expenses may also be available, distributed with a priority to those most in need. (Eligible speakers are also strongly encouraged to apply to the ÌÇĐÄÊÓÆ” for help financing travel: /portfolio/travel-stipends/).

There are also funds available to support childcare needs. Please contact us as soon as possible to arrange this or other accessibility requirements, in order to ensure we can guarantee every possible provision. For further details regarding accessibility, see the workshop website at:

Organisers: Dominic Kearney, Cheuk Hei Leung, and Dr. Simone Nota

Submission deadline: 31 August 2026; Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Since the publication of a 2023 issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics on the topic of ‘Art, Aesthetics, and Artificial Intelligence,’ questions about the implications of generative AI for the creation and appreciation of art have become increasingly pressing. In that issue of the PJA, and in other scholarly journals, philosophers and theorists have been wrestling with puzzling questions about what the prevalence of generative AI might mean for how we think about the definition of art, the ontology of art, the nature of creativity, and the role of intentionality in artmaking.

At the same time, we have begun to see the emergence of a new cluster of questions about the ethical dimensions of the use of generative AI in our creative and appreciative practices. Regarding the creative side of things, scholars and critics have asked whether generative AI might imperil traditional forms of artistic labor, appropriate existing artworks and/or styles of individual artists, threaten to reproduce biases and reinforce existing structures of social inequality, or result in a kind of aesthetic de-skilling. Regarding appreciative matters, we might wonder about the ethical implications of offloading to recommendation algorithms our decisions about what sorts of movies or music to experience, or about what sorts of virtues of characters might be threatened if the object of our appreciation has been created not by another human but by generative AI.

This issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics aims to bring together these two strands of inquiry. The editor invites scholars to submit papers that examine any of the various ethical dimensions of AI art, including but not limited to:

• The implications of AI art for appreciative virtues such as curiosity, patience, perseverance, and sensitivity.
• AI, artistic appropriation, and/or copyright.
• AI art and content moderation / censorship.
• AI art, ‘fake’ images, and deception.
• AI art and rights (free expression, rights of personality/publicity, intellectual property).
• The creation of AI art and moral agency (including moral responsibility and blameworthiness).
• AI and artistic labor.
• Aesthetic deskilling.
• Algorithmic bias, AI art, and social inequality.
• The ethical affordances or possibilities of AI art.

Submission deadline: 31 August, 2026.

Author Guidelines: We ask Authors to read our guidelines posted under the tab , as well as to double-check the completeness of each submission (please do not forget to collectively submit: the abstract, keywords, bibliography, and a biographical note about the author) before submitting.

Only complete submissions sent through the submissions page will be accepted—submission page:

All submitted articles are subject to double-blind reviews. Articles published in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics are assigned DOI numbers.

More information: 

This two-day conference is a collaboration between the European Commission-funded research project Art and Ethics and the Aesthetics and Ethics Research Group and is funded in part by a generous grant from the Thought Trust. It will take place on the 19th and 20th of September 2019 at the University of Southampton.

The conference’s aim is to get ethicists to think about issues in aesthetics and aestheticians to think about those in ethics, or something in between the two sub-disciplines, in the hope of setting a precedent of mutually beneficial exchanges. Possible issues the conference may address include, but are not limited to:

The relationship between aesthetic and ethical value in the arts
Similarities and differences between virtue theoretic approaches to both fields
The role of aesthetic considerations to living well, doing good, or right action
Meta-normative questions about the (dis)unity of the different values

The confirmed keynote speakers are Prof Paul C. Taylor and Prof Heather Widdows.
The organisers are pleased to invite abstracts sufficiently in keeping with this aim of no more than 1,000 words. Abstracts should:
Outline the paper’s principal argument(s)
Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical contribution(s).
Be anonymized.
Papers should be suitable for a 35-minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes for discussion.
Please submit your abstract to artandethics@soton.ac.uk with the subject heading ‘Beauty and Goodness’. The deadline is the 7th June, 2019. Potential applicants with doubts about the suitability of their paper may contact us at artandethics@soton.ac.uk.
The organisers will cover the cost of travel for authors without access to relevant research funds, and up to three nights’ accommodation where the cost of this would be otherwise prohibitive. We will also aim to provide and pay for authors’ childcare, should it be required, through the University of Southampton’s Early Years Centre. Applicants should inform us of their eligibility for support once their papers have been accepted. Authors who are unable to participate in person, will be invited to participate remotely via video-conferencing software.
The organisers sincerely encourage participants from groups whose voices are disproportionately excluded from philosophical discourse to submit abstracts.
The conference is being organized in accordance with the BPA/SWIP’s Good Practice Scheme and their Guidelines for Accessible Conferences.
Accessibility Information
The organisers aim to make this conference as accessible as possible, in line with the SWIP/BPA guidance for accessible conferences. While the precise venue is yet to be confirmed, it is anticipated that the event will take place in Building 65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton, SO17 1BF, and that

The organisers will be able to provide a hearing loop if it is required.
The organisers will be able to permit service animals to attend.
The venue will be wheelchair accessible.
The venue will have nearby accessible toilets.
The organisers will be able to provide a quiet room if it is required.
The venue will have available seating.
There will be nearby parking to all venues.
There will be at least a 15 minute break between each 70 minute session.
The organisers will be able to permit written, rather than spoken, questions during discussion.
Accessibility information about the building (Building 65) can be found here: https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/building-65-parkes

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Dr. Nils-Hennes Stear
Marie Curie Fellow, University of Southampton
https://nilsstear.wordpress.com | https://adpopulumblog.wordpress.com | https://artandethics.wordpress.com

We invite graduate students from outside St Andrews to submit papers in Applied Ethics, Moral Theory, Political Philosophy, Metaethics, and Aesthetics, and especially encourage submissions from members of under-represented groups in philosophy.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Alison Hills (University of Oxford) and Professor Andrew Williams (Pompeu Fabra University) will be Keynote Speakers.

All accepted papers will receive comments from faculty members or graduate students at St Andrews. We hope to offer support for travel costs and accommodation within St Andrews.

Papers should be submitted to ceppagradconf@outlook.com for blind review. All submissions must: (1) be no more than 5000 words including footnotes, (2) include an abstract of no more than 500 words, (3) be authored by current postgraduate students, (4) indicate the relevant area of research, (5) be suitable for a presentation of around 45 minutes, and (6) be prepared for anonymous review, removing any identifying information.

The DEADLINE for submissions is the 9th of November 2017; notification of acceptance will be sent by the 1st of January 2018.

Contact: ceppagradconf@outlook.com

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Friday, July 21, 2017 – 09:30 to Saturday, July 22, 2017 – 17:30

Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Is it morally wrong to play violent video games? Academics across numerous disciplines have taken an interest in these issues. Excellent work can be found in philosophy, psychology, media studies, sociology, and literary studies. However academics within these disciplines often do not talk to each other about their shared interest in games. With this conference, our aim is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on these issues.

The conference programme is available online .

This conference is being generously supported by the British Society for Aesthetics and the Institute of Philosophy.