Philosophy News
Visiting Fellow - Professor Lydia Goehr (Institute of Advanced Study)
Lydia Goehr will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Warwick from 18 January 2010 to 29 January 2010.
Lydia is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She works on the Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, and European Philosophy, and is internationally renowned for her innovative, cross-disciplinary work on the relationship between music, politics, history, and philosophy.Dr Angie Hobbs Made Senior Fellow
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Dr Angie Hobbs has just become the first ever 'Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy' in the UK.
This role will involve Dr Hobbs being tasked with bringing Philosophy to as wide an audience as possible both domestically and internationally. She will be building upon her work with traditional print and broadcast media as well as newer social media.
More detailed information can be accessed at the Communication Office's webpages at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/uk146s_first_ever
Also do visit Angie's staff pages
Call for Papers: Aesthetics After Photography Conference at Tate Modern
The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces a call for papers for its forthcoming conference:
Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the Sixties
Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010
The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process.
Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong, Cynthia Freeland, Sherri Irwin, Robin Kelsey, Joel Snyder, Jeff Wall
For details of call for papers (deadline: 1st December 2009) see webpage
New Publication: 'Fixing the Image' (Phillips)
'Fixing the Image: Re-thinking the 'Mind-independence' of Photographs'
Dawn M. Phillips
This is published as a Guest article in the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol.6 No.2 (September 2009)
The article is available as open access.
New Publication: 'Photography and Causation' (Phillips)
'Photography and Causation: Responding to Scruton's Scepticism'
Dawn M. Phillips
This article is published in the British Journal of Aesthetics Vol.49 Issue 4 (October 2009)
See links for Abstract and Advance Access