Heuristic Devices in Music

Matteo Ravasio University of Auckland   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos In this paper, I will term ‘heuristic device’ a particular type of strategy used by composers, performers and listeners in order to create, interpret and appreciate...

Crits, Consensus and Community

Michael Newall University of Kent   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos This paper develops a philosophical account of a controversial, but central and distinctive feature of contemporary art school education: group critiques, or crits as they...

Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism

Mohan Matthen University of Toronto   HOME PAGE PROGRAM ABSTRACTS Workshop 2017 Workshop Videos There are reasons why we should be subjectivists about aesthetic value. The most plausible form of subjectivism holds that aesthetic value (not value as such) depends on...