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April 11-13, 2012, Pacific Grove, California
Wednesday 11th April
4:00-5:40 Art, Science and Nature
Chair: Alison Denham, Tulane
"Norms and Nature Appreciation"
Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University
Comment: Jon Cogburn, Louisiana State University
"Aesthetic and Other Theoretical Virtues in Science"
Jason Boaz Simus, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Comment: Taylor Davis, University of British Columbia
7:00-8:30 Panel on Aesthetic Properties of Persons
Chair: Lauren Ware, University of Edinburgh
"What is an Aesthetic Property of Persons? An Ontological Analysis"
Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic University
"Extended Embodiment, Ventriloquism and the Prosthetic Identification of Persons"
David Goldblatt, Denison College
"Wit's End: Wit as an Aesthetic Property of Persons"
Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma
8:30 to Eviction: Reception
Thursday 12th April
8:30-10:10 Film and Dance
Chair:
"What Moves at the Movies? The Priority of the Recognitional Fold"
Edward Winters, West Dean College
Comment: Nicholas Diehl, Sacramento City College
"The Problem of 'Lost' Dance Works"
Anna Pakes, University of Roehampton
Comment: Jennifer Judkins, UCLA
10:30-12:10 Philosophy and Literature
Chair:
"There Are No Fields of Fiction: The Nature of Fiction and Tragedy"
Michelle Saint, Western Washington University
Comment: James Hamilton, Kansas State University
"Stop Over-Analyzing It: The Puzzle of Historical Inaccuracy and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Imaginative Resistance"
Mary Beth Willard, Weber State University
Comment: Mark Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma
1:30-4:00 Ethics and Aesthetics
Chair:
"Moral and Aesthetic Contextualism"
Stephanie Patridge and Andrew Jordan, Otterbein University
Comment: Jillian Isenberg, University of British Columbia
"Non-Branching Moderate Moralism"
W. Scott Clifton, University of Washington-Seattle
Comment: Lauren Ware, University of Edinburgh
"Relativism and Expressivism in Ethics and Aesthetics"
James Harold, Mount Holyoke
Comment: Peter Kivy, Rutgers
4:15-6:15 Panel on Art and Science
Chair:
"Kinds of Mind/Brain Modularity and Their Relevance to Connecting Art to Evolution"
Stephen Davies,University of Auckland
Title TBC
Amy Coplan, Fullerton
Title TBC
David Davies, McGill
Friday 13th April
8-8:30: Business meeting
8:30-10:10 David Hume
Chair:
"The Two Tastes"
Christopher T. Williams,University of Nevada at Reno
Comment: Jacqueline A. Taylor, University of San Francisco
"How Can a Skeptic Have a Standard of Taste?"
Susan Songsuk Hahn, Concordia University -- Montreal
Comment: James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
10:20-12:00 Aesthetic Judgment
Chair: Russell Quacchia, Indedendent Scholar
"Aesthetic Judgments: the Agency View"
Josh Johnston and Oisin Deery, University of British Columbia
Comment: Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn University
"The Architecture of Aesthetic Judgment"
Emma Esmaili, University of British Columbia
Comment: To be confirmed