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...
by ian2512 | Mar 23, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
Professor Paul Guyer Brown University A standard account of artistic representation emphasizes the distinction between the experience of the representation and the thought of what is represented. This is the case with Richard Wollheim’s model of the...
by ian2512 | Mar 23, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
Claire Healey and Sean Cordeiro Studio Claire and Sean Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s practice brings together ideas of home, movement and destruction. Working across sculpture and installation, and more recently video, their work re-uses and reforms everyday...
by ian2512 | Mar 23, 2016 | San Francisco Workshop, Sunday April 3rd, all day session
Dr. Robert Sinnerbrink Macquarie University The power of cinema to elicit diverse forms of affective, emotional, and cognitive engagement has become the focus of much exciting research in recent philosophical film theory. Although for the most part theorists have been...
