by ian2512 | Jun 26, 2017 | Adelaide Workshop 2017
Melvin Chen Nanyang Technological University HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos The cognitive theory of the imagination is an approach to the imagination that claims to inherit the prestige and relevance of science, possess general...
by ian2512 | Jun 26, 2017 | Adelaide Workshop 2017
Nicolas Bullot Charles Darwin University HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos Several individualistic programs of research in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences have investigated human imagination, creativity, and the arts....
by ian2512 | Mar 27, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
A/Prof Jennifer McMahon University of Adelaide I argue that if we assume that art is insightful and furthermore that it is insightful in virtue of the imaginative engagement it evokes, then imagination must satisfy certain conditions. Not only must imagination involve...
by ian2512 | Mar 23, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
Dr. Susan Hahn University of Alberta My aim is to reconcile two key features of Kant’s aesthetic practice. Kant speaks of our act of judging beauty as having a social character, making it receptive to the persuasive force of other’s judgments. Yet, for the sake of...
by ian2512 | Mar 23, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
Professor Cynthia Freeland University of Houston Philosophers informed by recent advances in the psychology of perception have helped advance debates about the “reality” of color and about the role of color in representational painting. Recent books and articles by...
