“Creativity and the Negative Emotions” by Derek Matravers (26 Apr)
Recent work by Malcolm Budd, Aaron Smuts, and others has shown the so-called ‘paradox of tragedy’ (the conjunction of the claims that we willingly submit ourselves to painful art and the hedonic view...
View Article“Seeing, Visualizing, and Believing” by John Zeimbekis (11 Apr)
I begin with an account of how visual processes construct the nonconceptual contents caused by picture perceptions, and then ask how those contents survive into doxastic, personal-level awareness. The...
View ArticleThe Philosophy of Pictures Workshop (5 Jun – 6 Jun)
The NUS Department of Philosophy will be hosting a 2-day workshop on the Philosophy of Pictures. Title of Workshop: Easing Off The Easel: Pictoriality and Paradigms of Pictures. Abstract: In...
View ArticleAesthetics Workshop (28 Jan)
Robert Stecker, “Film Narration, Imagined Seeing, and Seeing-In” (1pm – 2pm) This talk initially addresses the debate about whether we imagine seeing characters and their actions in films. There are...
View Article“What is the scope of aesthetic experience?” by Nico Silins (13 Feb)
In the first half of the talk, I examine Blindspot: you only experience a part of a work of art if you attend to it. I critically examine support for Blindspot one might draw from discussions in the...
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