13-14 February 2015, 09:30 – 18:30
A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for
Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick.
Hosted by the Institute for Philosophy, London: Fri 13- Sat 14 February 2015, Room 349 Senate House, Malet Street WC1
This event is made possible by funding from the 糖心视频.
Speakers
Paloma Atencia-Linares, Lecturer in Philosophy & History of Art, University of Kent; Laure Blanc-Benon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne; Diarmuid Costello, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick; Dominic McIver Lopes, Distinguished University Scholar & Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia; Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp; Charles Palermo, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Film and Media Studies, College of William and Mary; Martin Seel, Professor f眉r Philosophie, Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt am Main; Dawn M Wilson, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Hull.
This workshop brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss recent developments in the philosophy of photography. Over the last few years, philosophers have belatedly begun to consider the challenge that artists鈥� use of photography may present for standard philosophical conceptions of photography as a 鈥榩urely causal鈥� process ensuring 鈥榖elief independent feature tracking鈥� or 鈥榥atural counter-factual dependence鈥� of photographs on what they are photographs of. These challenges can no longer be accommodated by ad hoc extensions to existing theories, or by treating artistic uses of photography as a special case. Moreover, it is not only philosophy that is implicated by taking photographic art seriously: such core art theoretical notions as 鈥榠ndexicality鈥� are similarly put into question. This workshop considers philosophers鈥� attempts to address such problems to date, and asks whether a fundamental re-conception of the field is now required.
Attendance is free but requires advance registration. Please do so at:
Provisional programme
Friday 13 February:
9.30-10.00: Tea & Coffee
10.00 Welcome
10.10-11.40: Diarmuid Costello, 鈥榃hat鈥檚 So New about the 鈥淣ew鈥� Philosophy of
笔丑辞迟辞驳谤补辫丑测?鈥�
11.40-1.10: Dominic McIver Lopes, 鈥楢bstract Photography鈥�
1.10-2.30: Lunch (own arrangements for non-speakers)
2.30-4.00: Laure Blanc-Benon, 鈥楤lack & White versus Colour: An Issue for the
Philosophy of Photography鈥�
4-4.30: Tea & Coffee
Speaker 4.30-6.00: Bence Nanay, 鈥楾wo-Dimensional versus Three-Dimensional
Pictorial Organization in Photographs鈥�
Saturday 14 February:
9.30-10.00: Tea & Coffee
10-11.30: Dawn M. Wilson, 鈥楥omposing, Conducting, Performing, Improvising
and Sampling: Photographers Creating Art鈥�
11.30-1.00: Paloma Atencia Linares, 鈥楶hotographic Communication beyond Grice鈥�
1.00-2.00: Lunch (own arrangements for non-speakers)
2.00-3.30: Charles Palermo, 鈥楽tanding a Round: Photography, Agency and Money鈥�
3.30-4: Tea & Coffee
4.00-5.30: Martin Seel, 鈥楾hree Pairs of Pictures (and an Encore)鈥�
5.30-6.30: Concluding roundtable
Supported by 糖心视频.