-----Original Message----- From: Stacie Friend <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Mar 1, 2014 8:39 pm Subject: [AE] Registration open: Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste (14 March, London)
The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) organises a one-dayworkshop on: Aesthetic Adjectives andDisagreements about Taste 14 March 2014Senate House, Room G104 Londonhttp://bit.ly/1bEhlrw This workshop will bring together research in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics to consider a topic significant to all thesedomains: aesthetic adjectives, such as 'beautiful', 'ugly', 'elegant' or 'unified', and their role in disagreements about taste. Participants: Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds), Shen-Yi Liao (NanyangTechnological University, Singapore and Leeds), Tim Sundell (University of Kentucky), Isidora Stojanovic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Nick Zangwill(University of Hull) and Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)Philosophical aestheticians have a longstanding interest in the nature of aesthetic adjectives and their use in both everyday and art-criticaldiscourse. Consider, for example, the traditional project of defining 'beautiful', 'sublime' and 'ugly', or Frank Sibleybs influential argument to the effect that the applications of aesthetic terms are never solelydetermined by non-aesthetic conditions. Or take Kendall Waltonbs seminal work on the role played by categories in aesthetic judgments, which hasraised the question of whether gradable adjectives b those concerning qualities which admit of degrees, such as 'tall' or 'small' b might serve asmodels for understanding aesthetic adjectives. At the same time, work on the semantics of adjectives in linguistics and philosophy of language hasdeveloped theories of gradable adjectives in general, as well as examining terms known as predicates of 'personal taste' (e.g. 'tasty' and 'fun'),which appear to be closely related to aesthetic discourse. By bringing together theories of the semantics of adjectives with a focus onaestheticadjectives in particular, the workshop aims to shed light on the nature of aesthetic terms, their relations to other elements of language,their central role in the evaluation of art, and what they reveal about disagreements concerning value.Programme 12.45 B Welcome13.00 B Shen-Yi Liao and Aaron Meskin, 'The Relative, the Absolute, and the Aesthetic'14.00 B Isidora Stojanovic, 'The Experiential and the Evaluative Aspects of Aesthetic Judgements'15.00 B Tea/coffee 15.30 B Tim Sundell, 'Non-Evaluative Contextualism for Predicates of Taste'16.30 B Louise McNally, 'Aesthetic Predicates at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface' (commentary)17.00 B Nick Zangwill, TBA (commentary) 17.30 B General discussion18.00 B Close Registration is free but required Please register at:B http://bit.ly/1bEhlrw The workshop is made possible by generous support from the British Society of Aesthetics. -- Dr Stacie Friend Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow Vice President, British Society of Aesthetics B I am on researchB leave in 2013-14. _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
