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SearchMain MenuEP Newsletter SignupPlay a Game QuotablesI wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.-- Introduction to Sceptical Essays -- Bertrand Russell | Conference: "Genres, Categories, and Concepts in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art" (Indiana University, May 16-18) "Genres, Categories, and Concepts in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art" May 16-18, 2008 Indiana University, Bloomington This conference will investigate the particular roles of various types of categorization in the production, experience, and appreciation of works of art. Specific topics include: * the legitimacy of cross‐categoria
l comparison of artworks * gender in the horror genre: "feminist final girls" * Collingwood on the distinction between art and craft * generic resetting in rock covers * Herder on sculpture * nuance as a category‐indepe
ndent aesthetic property * Schopenhauer on “genres that matter”: tragedy and still life * comics as literary/visual hybrid Amy Coplan (Cal State, Fullerton) Nicholas Diehl (University of California, Davis) Jonathan Friday (Kent University, UK) Ted Gracyk (Minnesota State, Moorhead) Matthew Kieran (Leeds University, UK) Aaron Meskin (Leeds University, UK) Michael Morgan (Indiana University) Alex Neill (University of Southampton, UK) Henry Pratt (Marist College, USA) Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton, UK) Michael Rings (Indiana University) Tiger Roholt (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Sandy Shapshay (Indiana University) Joshua Shaw (Penn State, Erie) Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University, USA) Visit conference website at: http://
www.indiana.edu
/~aesthete/ For further information or registration, contact: mrings@indiana.
edu Sponsored by the College Arts Humanities Institute and the Indiana University Department of Philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Indiana University Departments of Communication and Culture, English, Germanic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, West European Studies, and the Fundamental Studio Area of the School of Fine Arts [Submitted by Michael Rings] |
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