Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Aesthetics Seminar
The Aesthetics Seminar usually takes place from 16.00-18.00 on Mondays (odd weeks) in the Lecture Room of the Radcliffe Humanities Building.
Please Note: The Seminar will not run in Trinity Term 2025.
Aesthetics Seminar Convenor: Catharine Abell
| Week 1 (9th October) | Thomas Adajian (James Madison University) | Pluralism, Beauty, Artistic Value: Questions |
| Week 3 (23th October) | Stephen Mulhall (Oxford) | The Proving Window: Inversion, Perfectionism, and the Unknown Woman In Christopher Nolan's Tenet |
| Week 5 (6th November) | Claire Anscomb (De Montfort University) | An Imaginative Aid? Creating Images with Generative AI |
| Week 7 (20th November) | Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) | Wrongful, Degrading, or Merely Indecent? Exploitation in Three Works by Santiago Sierra |
| Week 1 (24th April) | Jason Gaiger (Oxford) | What is a Detail? |
| Week 3 (8th May) | Sonia Sedivy (Toronto) | Aesthetic Properties and Philosophy of Perception |
| Week 5 (22nd May) | Dawn Wilson (Hull) | Metavision, Machine Vision, and Machine-Generated |
| Week 7 (5th June) | Andrew Huddleston (Warwick) | Beyond Good and Evil: George Eliot and the Religion of Humanity in Middlemarch |
| Week 1 (16th January) | David Collins (Oxford) | Reformulating Virtue Aesthetics on the Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethical Model |
| Week 3 (30th January) | Zoe Walker (Oxford) | Tragic Catharsis and Moral Bad Luck |
| Week 5 (13th February) | Victor Dura-Vila (Leeds) | The Appreciative Demands of Challenging Art: Originality, Epistemic Gains and Moral Seriousness |
| Week 7 (27th February) | Vanessa Brassey (King's College London) | Time for Twofoldedness |
| Week 1 (10th October) | James Lewis (Birmingham) | Interpersonal Communion and Aesthetic Appreciation |
| Week 3 (24th October) | Hans Maes (University of Kent) | Aesthetic Melancholy |
| Week 5 (7th November) | Derek Matravers (Open University) | Representations and How We Access Them: Implications for Fiction |
| Week 7 (21st November) | Karen Simecek (University of Warwick) | Cultivating Intellectual Humility through Lyric Poetry |
| Week 2 (28th January) | Robert Hopkins (New York University) | Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals |
| Week 4 (11th February) | Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University) | Why Must it be Either One or the Other? Reasons in Criticism |
| Week 6 (25th February) | James Shelley (Auburn University) | What makes aesthetic value aesthetic? |
| Week 8 (10th March) | Solveig Aasen (University of Oslo) | What Is It for Music and Dance to Match? |
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Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) |
Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question |
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| Week 3 (14th May) |
Eileen John (Warwick) |
The Experience of Necessity in Poetry |
| Week 5 (28th May) |
Jason Gaiger (Oxford) |
Parthood and Composition: A Mereological Approach to Installation Art |
| Week 7 (11th June) |
Gwen Bradford (Rice) |
Uniqueness and Intrinsic Value |