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The Scottish Aesthetics Forum presents its inaugural
lecture: Professor Dominic McIver Lopes: "Aesthetic Agency and Value"
Wednesday, 11th February, 2015, 4:15 - 6:00pm 3.11 Dugald Stewart Building,
University of Edinburgh (https://www.facebook.com/events/750811745004827/)
Abstract: b A theory of aesthetic value should explain the performance of
aesthetic experts, for aesthetic experts are agents whose acts track
aesthetic value. Aesthetic empiricism, the theory that an itembsB aesthetic
value is its power to yield aesthetic pleasure, suggests that aesthetic
experts are best at locating aesthetic pleasure, especially given aesthetic
internalism, the view that aesthetic reasonsB always have motivating force.
Problems with empiricism and internalism open the door to an alternative.
Aesthetic experts perform a range of actions not aimed at pleasure. Yet their
reasons forB acting are aesthetic. Since aesthetic values figure in aesthetic
reasons, we can read a non-empiricist theory of aesthetic value off aesthetic
expertsb reasons for acting.b + Workshop on Prof. Lopesb latest book
Beyond Art (OUP, 2014), 11th February, 2:15-3:15pm, Dugald Stewart Building,
3.11. Both events are free and open to all. The talk will be followed by
dinner with our speaker. We have limited funds available to cover dinner
expenses for two students. Anyone interested in attending the dinner should
contact the organisers ([email protected]) as soon as
possible and no later than Saturday, 7th February, 2015. Priority will be
given to postgraduates but otherwise we will accommodate requests on a
first-come-first-served basis. For more information, please visit:
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/groups/scottish-aesthetics-forum Or find us on
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made possible through the support of the British Society of Aesthetics and
the Scots Philosophical Association.
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