Aesthetic Investigations, Vol 4 No 2 (2021)
okt 14th, 2021 by Rob van Gerwen
September 2021, we published a new of Aesthetic Investigations, Vol 4 No 2 (2021), including a special issue on The Birth of the Discipline, co-edited by Endre Szécsényi, with Rob van Gerwen.
Still Life (Nature morte) (ca. 1892–1894) by Paul Cézanne
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- Grounding Ethics in Aesthetics Rob van Gerwen i-vi
The birth of the discipline
- Introduction The Birth of the Discipline Endre Szécsényi 140-143
- The Science of Aesthetics, the Critique of Taste, and the Philosophy of Art Ambiguities and Contradictions J Colin McQuillan 144-162
- Shaftesbury and the Stoic Roots of Modern Aesthetics Brian Michael Norton 163-181
- Spinoza and the Genesis of the Aesthetic Gabriel Trop 182-200
- Critical Aesthetics Baumgarten and the Logic of Taste Alessandro Nannini 201-218
- Beauty and Civilization Buffon’s considerations on human somatic features in Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Julia Jacob 219-235
Articles
- In Defence of Moderate Actual Intentionalism Frederick Hulbert 236-253
Fresh
- Merleau-Ponty about Le doute de Cézanne Thomas Baumeister 254-268
Reviews
- Review, Lars Spuybroek Grace and Gravity Lara Schrijver 269-273
Aesthetic Investigations, new issue
jan 25th, 2021 by Rob van Gerwen
Aesthetic Investigations has just published another issue. I invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
I would also like to draw your attention to our new Calls for papers, which include calls for guest editors! Please visit our site, and check under “Announcements”.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Rob van Gerwen
Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)
editor@aestheticinvestigations.eu


Published: 31 December 2020
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- Aesthetic normativity and suitable prompting Rob van Gerwen i-vii
Empirical Aesthetics
- Introduction to Empirical Aesthetics James R. Hamilton 1-5
- The Vanity of Small Differences: Empirical Studies of Extrinsic Factors and Artistic Value Shen-yi Liao, Aaron Meskin, Jade Fletcher 6-21
- How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations? David Fenner 22-35
- Aesthetic Debunking and the Transcendental Argument of the Novel Jonathan Weinberg, Adam Gjesdal 36-53
- Lost in Intensity Is there an empirical solution to the quasi-emotions debate? Steve Humbert-Droz, Amanda Garcia, Vanessa Sennwald, Fabrice Teroni, Julien Deonna, David Sander, Florian Cova 54-76
- Aesthetic Disinterestedness in Neuroaesthetics: A Phenomenological Critique Fotini Vassiliou 77-95
Articles
- Sensus and Dissensus Communis The Comedy of Democracy (Following Cavell) Josef Früchtl 96-111
Fresh
- Aesthetic Value and Aesthetic Judgment. The Hard Problem for Contemporary Aesthetic Naturalism Gianluca Consoli 112-121
- Emotion and Empirical Aesthetics Sue Spaid 122-132
Reviews
Aesthetic Investigations, new issue
jul 29th, 2020 by Rob van Gerwen
Aesthetic Investigations has just published a new issue. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
I would also like to draw your attention to our new Calls for papers, which include calls for guest editors! Please visit our site, and check under “Announcements”.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Rob van Gerwen
Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)
editor@aestheticinvestigations.eu

Published: 2020-07-25
Table of Contents
From the Editor
- Research as Scrutiny. Our most demanding issues are aesthetic issues
Rob van Gerwen, i-v
Philosophy of film without theory
- Inaugurating Philosophy of Film Without Theory
Craig Fox & Britt Harrison, 175-184 - Police Adjective and Attunement to the Significance of Things
Craig Fox, 185-199 - The New World: Heideggerian or Humanist Cinema?
Britt Harrison, 200-227 - Mourning the Loss of the Ordinary. A Cavellian Reading of Ozu’s Late Spring
Jônadas Techio, 228-259 - With Friends Like These… or: How Not to Respond to the Imposition Objection
Katheryn Doran, 260-268 - Mother-Daughter Identity Constructs in Lady Snowblood and Carrie
Kristin A. Hrehor, 269-283 - Emerson’s Vision of America in John Ford’s Stagecoach
Michael Forest, 284-310 - Getting Away with Murder? Crimes and Misdemeanors and Alternative Conceptions of Justice
Mikel Burley, 311-326 - When the silent universe speaks. Testing Camus’ notion of the absurd in the alien encounters of Contact and Arrival
Shai Tubali, 327-346 - The Flesh is Weak. Empathy and Becoming Human in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
Colin Heber-Percy, 347-364 - What They See is What We Get in Film: Reality Tells the Fiction
Rob van Gerwen, 365-386 - Ordinary Language Film Studies
Andrew Klevan, 387-406
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Guest Editor Arts & Artists | artsartists@aestheticinvestigations.eu
Aesthetic Investigations, an issue has been published
dec 28th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen
Volume 3, issue 1.
If you are interested in this journal do not hesitate to enlist as a reader on our website: https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/issue/current
Dr. Rob van Gerwen, Editor-in-chief Aesthetic Investigations | aestheticinvestigations.eu |
E: editor@aestheticinvestigations.eu
Dutch Association of Aesthetics: www.nge.nl
Dept. of Philosophy | University Utrecht |
Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht, room 1.04
W: www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/ | blog: blog.hum.uu.nl/robvangerwen/ |
Twitter: @robvangerwen
Jurry Ekkelboom, MA, Assistant to the editor |
info@aestheticinvestigations.eu | NGE: www.nge.nl
Visiting address: Dingostraat 62 6531 PD Nijmegen
Prof. Dr. Arthur Cools, editor Articles, and book reviews | articles@aestheticinvestigations.eu
Sue Spaid, Ph.D., editor Articles | articles@aestheticinvestigations.eu
Guest Editor Arts & Artists | artsartists@aestheticinvestigations.eu
For program see previous post
okt 24th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen

Program
sep 18th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen
Symposium Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica, Eindhoven 25-26 October, The problem of the building
The NGE-symposium The problem of the building takes place on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 October. Below you find additional information about the location, the program, the sessions and possible hotels for an overnight stay in Eindhoven.
Location
The symposium will take place in De Zwarte Doos, located at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology. The address details are the following:
De Zwarte Doos
Den Dolech 2
5612 AZ Eindhoven
https://www.dezwartedoos.nl/
Accessibility, route and map TU/e Campus
Program
Below please find the program as well as an overview of the individual sessions:
FRIDAY, October 25:
- 11:15-12:00: General NGE meeting (all NGE members welcome)
- 12:00-13:00: Enrollment + lunch
- 13:00-15:00: Session 1
- 15:00-15:20: Break
- 15:20-17:50: Session 2
- 18:00-19:00: Keynote lecture – Bernard Colenbrander
- 19:00: Conference dinner + drinks
SATURDAY, October 26:
- 10:00-11:00: Keynote lecture – ZUS
- 11:00-13:00: Session 3
- 13:00-14:00: Lunch
- 14:00-16:00: Session 4
- 16:00: Closing and drinks
SESSION 1: EXPERIENCES OF ARCHITECTURE
- Alison Aurosa
- Marcel Koeleman
- Ralph Brodruck
SESSION 2: AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE
- Rob van Gerwen
- Jasper van de Vijver
- Jacob Voorthuis
- Sergio Figueiredo
SESSION 3: ARCHITECTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
- Torsten Schröder
- Julia Beekmans
- Pepita Hesselberth
SESSION 4: ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES
- Albert van der Schoot
- Wouter Hilhorst
- Dorus Hoebink, Rob Joos, Arjen Kok
Staying in Eindhoven
There are various options for an overnight stay in Eindhoven. This is a list of possible hotels close to the location of the symposium:
- Hotel NH Collection Eindhoven
https://www.nh-collection.com/nl/hotel/nh-collection-eindhoven-centre - Hotel Pullman Eindhoven Cocagne
https://www.pullman-eindhoven-cocagne.com/ - Inntel Hotels Art Eindhoven
https://www.inntelhotelsarteindhoven.nl/
Dutch Design Week
The symposium is part of the Dutch Design Week 2019. For information about the event:
https://www.ddw.nl/en/home
Conference fee
Participation fee for the symposium:
- NGE members: free admittance
- Non-members: € 50 (including NGE membership through to 2020)
- Students: € 20 (including NGE membership through to 2020)
- Enrolling for the symposium: please transfer the due amount to account no. NL66INGB0006395303 (Ned. Genootschap voor Esthetica), re: ‘participation symposium 2019’.
For other issues, please contact Niels van Poecke, vanpoecke@eshcc.eur.nl
Symposium Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica 25-26 oktober 2019, Eindhoven: Het probleem van het gebouw (deadline extended)
jun 24th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen
De deadline voor inzendingen van abstract is uitgesteld tot 1 juli.
Deadline for abstracts extended through July 1.
klick here for the call for papers (Dutch/English) or scroll down.
CFP: Philosophy of Film Without Theory (deadline extended)
mei 15th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen
CFP for a Special Issue of the Aesthetics Investigations Journal dedicated to the Philosophy of Film Without Theory.
Journal Editor-in-Chief: Rob van Gerwen (University of Utrecht)
Special Issue Guest Editors: Craig Fox (California University of Pennsylvania) & Britt Harrison (University of York).
Following on from this year’s inaugural, international conference on the Philosophy of Film Without Theory at the University of York, the Special Issue of Aesthetics Investigations extends its CFP deadline to June 15th, 2019.
Methodologies in Philosophy Without Theory (in general) include, but are by no means limited to: fine-grained description and discernment; disentangling confusions; reactive and/or reflective critical inquiry, the exploration of conceptual connections; logical geography; conceptual synthesis; the provision of perspicuous presentations and surveyable overviews; non-systematic engagement with individual or particular works, subjects, objects, ideas, events and/or situations… and more.
Methodologies in Philosophy Without Theory about film may include any of the above as part of a commitment to focus on, and pay close attention to, individual films.
Symposium Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica 25-26 oktober 2019, Eindhoven: Het probleem van het gebouw
apr 30th, 2019 by Rob van Gerwen
For English see below
Op vrijdag 25 en zaterdag 26 oktober 2019 vindt het jaarlijkse symposium van het NGE (Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica) plaats in Eindhoven. De organisatie van het symposium (NGE i.s.m. vakgroep Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering, TUe) vindt voor een deel plaats binnen de context van de Dutch Design Week (www.ddw.nl). Continue Reading »