Philosophy News
Perception and its Objects, by Bill Brewer
Bill Brewer's latest book, Perception and its Objects, is due to be published in March 2011. The book presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. For further information, please use the following link:
'Agency and Automatism' Conference Programme
The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces the programme for its forthcoming conference:
Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s
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.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.Postgraduate Conference: Call For Papers - Deadline 31st January 2009
'Photography into Contemporary Art: The Bigger Picture'
A postgraduate conference on Friday 15th May 2009, University of Essex, Colchester.
Submission deadline for papers: 31st January 2009
Panel at the American Society for Aesthetics - 6 November 2008
The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting 2008 will feature a panel on the theme of Photography as a Medium (post-digitalisation), organised by Diarmuid Costello.