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Confirmed Speakers include:

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Gregory Currie (York)

Jonathan Gilmore (CUNY)

Lydia Goehr (Columbia)

Peter Lamarque (York)

Jonathan Neufeld (Charleston)

Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala)

We are pleased to invite proposals for presentations on the relation between aesthetics and cognition.

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What is the relationship between discursive knowledge and aesthetic judgment or experience? Do aesthetic judgments or experiences contribute to knowledge? Do aesthetic experiences involve special forms of cognition or mental states contributing to cognition? Do different fields of art invite distinct kinds of cognitions? Does the cognitive content of artworks contribute to their aesthetic value? Does the emphasis on the cognitive value of aesthetics pose a threat to the autonomy of art and the aesthetic? Does aesthetic judgment reveal the limitations of conceptual thought? Does it call for a re-evaluation of the very notion of cognition?

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These and other questions related to the cognitive value of aesthetics will be discussed in the conference, organized by the projectÌýThe Cognitive Relevance of AestheticsÌý(CRA), funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and hosted by the Discipline of Philosophy at the University of Tampere.

Abstracts of ca. 500 words in Word format should be sent by 18^ÌýApril 2017 toÌý. Submissions should include the author’s name, affiliation, contact information, and the title of the paper. Accepted papers will receive 45 minutes each (35 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). Notifications will be sent in early May.

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Organizing Committee:

Hanne Appelqvist

Jukka Mikkonen

Kalle Puolakka

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For further information on the conference, please contact Kalle Puolakka (kalle.puolakka [at] helsinki.fi).

For further information on the CRA Project, please visit: ÌýÌý

Professor Dominic McIver Lopes: “Aesthetic Agency and Value”
Wednesday, 11 February, 2015, 4:15-6pm
University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3.11

“A theory of aesthetic value should explain the performance of aesthetic experts, for aes-thetic experts are agents whose acts track aesthetic value. Aesthetic empiricism, the theory that an item’s aesthetic value is its power to yield aesthetic pleasure, suggests that aesthetic experts are best at locating aesthetic pleasure, especially given aesthetic internalism, the view that aesthetic reasons always have motivating force. Problems with empiricism and internalism open the door to an alternative. Aesthetic experts perform a range of actions not aimed at pleasure. Yet their reasons for acting are aesthetic. Since aesthetic values figure in aesthetic reasons, we can read a non-empiricist theory of aes-thetic value off aesthetic experts’ reasons for acting.�

+ Workshop on Prof. Lopes’ latest book Beyond Art (OUP, 2014), 11 February, 2:15-3:15pm, Dugald Stewart Building, 3.11.

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