Philosophy and Museums

24th – 26th July 2013

Glasgow

Speakers:

David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’
Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’
Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’
Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’
Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’
Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’
Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’
Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’
Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) with Jil Evans, ‘How to Get into a Work of Art’
Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’

**SPA sponsored**