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The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its fourth lecture:
Professor Emily Brady (Edinburgh)
“Sublimity and Art”
Wednesday, 10th June, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm
Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20,
University of Edinburgh
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The lecture is free and open to all!
Abstract: The arts have an ambivalent status in the history of the sublime. Some philosophers have taken poetry, painting, and music to be sublime, while others have clearly designated the arts as capable only of representing, conveying, or expressing it, that is, somehow derivative of sublimity in nature, whether that be through visual depictions of sublime phenomena, through the language of poetry and literature, or through music. Here, I take as a starting point the eighteenth-century view that the arts, on the whole, are not sublime as such and consider it with reference to recent debates in aesthetics. I argue that (1) paradigm cases of the sublime involve qualities related to overwhelming vastness or power coupled with a strong emotional reaction of excitement and delight tinged with anxiety, and (2) because most works of art lack the combination of these qualities and accompanying responses, they cannot be sublime in the paradigmatic sense. Along the way, I discuss differences between sublimity and profundity in art, and consider the inclusion of works of architecture and some forms of land art in the category of the sublime.
About the speaker: Emily Brady is Professor of Environment and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Trustee of the American Society of Aesthetics, and has previously held the positions of President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee Member of the British Society of Aesthetics. Her research interests and publications span aesthetics and the philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, Kant, and animal studies. She has co-edited a number of volumes on environmental ethics and aesthetics, and is the author of two monographs, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (2003), The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (2013). She is currently working on her third monograph, Aesthetics of Nature in the Eighteenth Century: A Philosophical History.
Additional information: The lecture will be followed by a dinner with our speaker. If you would like to attend the dinner, please contact the organisers by Saturday, 6th June. There are limited funds to cover dinner expenses for two students, offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
To contact the organisers: scottishaestheticsforum@gmail.
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SAF is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Hume on Regime Change
James Harris
(University of St Andrews)
Equipoise, Uncertainty, and Inductive Risk in Research Involving Pregnant Women
Rebecca Kukla
(Georgetown University)
Civic Punishment
Antony Duff
(University of Stirling)
The Philosophy of Social Technology: Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies
Nancy Cartwright
(University of Durham and University of California, San Diego)
Undermining Promises
Julia Driver
(University of Washington in St Louis)
Events next week (more information):
Two events at St Andrews this week:
Follow those links for more information.
Final conference of the Leverhulme-funded Kant and Laws of Nature international network
Kant, the Laws of the Life Sciences, and the Lawfulness of Nature
University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street,
Rooms 3.10-3.11, 25th-26th June.
Speakers:
The event is free but registration is required (registration closes on June 10th)
For details of the programme and registration please visit the website:
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The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.
EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 16 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars.
Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.
The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. To match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues.
For the 2016-2017 academic year EURIAS offers 43 fellowships (21 junior and 22 senior positions).
All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of €26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.
APPLICATION
– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where, you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, and selection procedure.
– Applications period April 9th ? June 5th, 2015, 12 pm (noon) GMT.
– Late applications will not be considered.
SELECTION PROCEDURE
– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers
– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee
– Final selection by the IAS Academic Boards
— Publication of results: January 2016
For further information on the Programme, please consult our website: www.eurias-fp.eu
For further information on the IAS and their specific working conditions: www.eurias-fp.eu/ias
The Linguistics and Philosophy departments at the University of Edinburgh are hosting a two day workshop on contemporary issues in Nativism, from 21 – 22 May 2015.
Confirmed speakers include:
Further information is available at our website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/lec/nativism-workshop
Attendance is free, but please register at our website. This workshop is made possible by an IASH IIRG (International and Interdisciplinary Research Group) on “Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences”. Additional support has been generously provided by EIDYN, the Edinburgh Centre of Epistemology, Mind and Normativity.
Kant’s Scots
Friday May 15th 2015
University of Edinburgh, DSB, 1.01
For information, contact alix.cohen@ed.ac.uk.
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Workshop on Ancient Philosophy
Friday, April 24, 2015
Organised jointly by the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at Edinburgh and the School of Classics at St Andrews.
The programme will include four talks:
When: from 10 am, April 24, 2015Where: Room 3.10-11, Dugald Stewart Building, Edinburgh
More information: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/international-ancient-philosophy-workshop
One event next week:
Jody Azzouni (Tufts University) will be visiting the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews from 11-24 April. He will be giving four seminars as follows:
For more information, please contact slr@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Professor Berys Gaut (St Andrews)
“Cinematic Art and Technology”
Wednesday, 22nd April, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm
Dugald Stewart Building, 3.10-3.11,
University of Edinburgh
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The lecture is free and open to all!
Abstract: “Cinema was born as technology and rapidly grew into an art. What is the relation of its artistic to its technological properties? In this paper I develop an argument to show that the proper artistic appreciation of cinematic artworks is partly dependent on their technological features. I also illustrate and defend this claim by comparing how digital films can solve certain filmmaking problems with how non-digital films can do so. I then discuss whether the argument shows that digital films are, other things equal, lesser artistic achievements than are non-digital ones.”
About the speaker: Berys Gaut is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, President of the British Society of Aesthetics, and an Editorial Consultant to the British Journal of Aesthetics. His research interests and publications span both aesthetics and moral theory, and especially the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the philosophy of film and film theory, and the philosophy of creativity. He is the author of two monographs, Art, Emotion and Ethics (OUP 2007) and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (CUP 2010), and is currently working on a new one, Exploring Creativity: A Philosophical Inquiry.
Additional information: The lecture will be followed by a dinner with our speaker. If you would like to attend the dinner, please contact the organisers by Friday, 17th April. There are limited funds to cover dinner expenses for two students, which will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
To contact the organisers: scottishaesthetics
For more information, please visit:
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SAF is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association.
Stephen Darwall will be visiting St Andrews at the end of May as the Scots Philosophical Association’s 2015 Centenary Fellow. While he’s there, St Andrews will be hosting a few special events. The biggest is the St Andrews Normative Reasons Workshop on 1-2 June; more information here: http://www.st-andrews.
Darwall will also give two seminars. They are planned for:
The titles are ‘Trust as a Second-Personal Phenomenon’ and ‘Commanding Reasons and the Commands of Reason: Kant on Moral Obligation’ (but it’s not settled which will be on which day). Final details will be available closer to the date.
For more information, contact Justin Snedegar (jlsnedegar@gmail.com).
