Aesthetic Autonomy & Heteronomy – Wednesday February 2nd, 2011; Berrick Saul Building, University of York
This one-day conference is intended to examine and clarify the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic developments (be they socio-historic, cultural or economic). The view, arguably inaugurated by Kant, that art can be seen as wholly autonomous (free of extra-aesthetic function, and explicable purely in terms of aesthetic categories) has repeatedly been problematized in the modern history of aesthetics.
Speakers: Professor Peter Lamarque (Philosophy, University of York), Professor Max Paddison (Music, Durham University), Dr Andy Hamilton (Philosophy, Durham University), Dr Jason Gaiger (Art History, Oxford University). The conference will also include two Graduate Papers, each 20 minutes in length, each followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Submissions are invited for these graduate papers if interested in delivering a graduate paper, please send a 500 word abstract to ojh102@york.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is December 20th 2010. Confirmation of acceptance will be sent out by January 2nd.