Aesthetics workshop

The first international project workshop will be held on June 21-22 at the University of Nottingham. In addition to the Aesthetics project team, the participants at the workshop will be:

• Roberto Casati (Paris)
• David Davies (McGill)
• Fabian Dorsch (Freiborg)
• Stacie Friend (Haythrop)
• Andrew McGonigal (Leeds)
• Jonathan Ichikawa (St Andrews)
• Steve Laurence (Sheffield)
• Dom Lopes (British Columbia)
• Amie Thomasson (Miami)
• Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana)

Participants will focus on questions such as:

1. Are there ways in which traditional philosophical approaches (e.g. conceptual analysis, appeal to intuitions etc.) might be influenced or in some cases challenged by the systematic study of such things as the mechanisms and evolutionary histories of perception and cognition?
2. To what extent, if at all, are our (so-called) aesthetic responses the product of a range of contingent and disunified psychological sensitivities with different functions and histories?
3. Are we justified in treating the aesthetic as an area of autonomous study unaffected by anything that we might discover about its underpinnings?

Attendance is by invitation.