Suomen Kulttuurirahaston rahoittama tutkimusprojekti Estetiikan tiedollinen merkitys järjestää tällä viikolla kansainvälisen konferenssin Tampereen yliopistosta. Aiheesta kiinnostuneet ovat tervetulleita!
The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics
University of Tampere, August 31–September 2 2017
University of Tampere, Linna K113
Thursday August 31 (chair: Jukka Mikkonen)
9:00– Registration
9:30–10:45 Peter Lamarque (York): Truth in Poetry. A Matter of Detail
10.45–11.00 Break
11:00–11:45 Maria José Alcaraz Léon (Murcia): The Specific Cognitive Value of Aesthetics
11.45–12.30 Britt Harrison (York): Humanist Skepticism about the Very Notion of the Cognitive
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Karen Simecek (Warwick): Are Art and Philosophy Mutually Exclusive? What Might This Mean for Cognitivism?
14:45–15:30 Gerard Vilar (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Artistic Research and Cognitive Progress
15:30–16:00 Coffee
16:00–16:45 Michalle Gal (Shenkar College): Visual Metaphors, Visual Hybrids and Non-Conceptual Aesthetic Perception
16:45–17:30 Rebecca Wallbank (Uppsala): Reconsidering Artistic Value
Friday September 1 (chair: Kalle Puolakka)
9:30–10:45 Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala): Contemplation, Curiosity and Cognition. On Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Gain
10.45–11.00 Break
11.00–11.45 Vid Simoniti (Cambridge): Art and Minor Philosophical Genres
11.45–12:30 Stephen Chamberlain (Rockhurst): Understanding the Cognitive Value of Narrative Fiction
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Tzachi Zamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Literature. Value and
Knowledge
14:45–15:30 Jeremy Page (Uppsala): Work and Reader in Two Accounts of the Cognitive Value of Literature
15:30–16:00 Coffee
16:00–16:45 Irene Martiìnez Mariìn (Uppsala): Understanding (without) Feeling. The Case of
Nostalgic Expression
Saturday September 2 (chair: Hanne Appelqvist)
9:30–10:45 Lydia Goehr (Columbia): Cognitive Aesthetics or Conceptual Aesthetics. Or What Does It Mean to Think Philosophically through Art?
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–11:45 Larissa Berger (University of Siegen): What We “Learn” in a Kantian Judgment of Taste?
11:45–12:30 Bogdan Nita (Bucharest): Kant’s Common Sense as a Key Concept to Explain the Aesthetic Judgment and its Relevance to Cognition
12:30 Closing
Organizing committee: Hanne Appelqvist, Kalle Puolakka, and Jukka Mikkonen
For further information, please contact Hanne Appelqvist (hanne.appelqvist[at]helsinki.fi)