Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, MAY 12

2:00-2:40	Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University, Bloomington) ‘All Your Desires in One Box: Conative States and Fiction’
2:45-3:25	Luke Phillips (Indiana University, Bloomington) ‘Interestingness and Inspiration’
3:30-4:10	Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University) ‘On the Cognitive Value of Literature: The Case of Nietzsche’s Genealogy’
4:15-4:55	Michael Rings (Indiana University, Bloomington) ‘Coming Close and Keeping One’s Distance: The Aesthetic Cosmopolitan and Transcultural Conversation’

Peter Kivy
Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
‘Music, Science, and Semantics: What Can “Science” Tell Us About Musical “Meaning”?’
5:30-7:30
University Club, Indiana Memorial Union
*A reception will follow the keynote address.

All sessions on Friday and Saturday will be held in the Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union

9:00-10:00	Andrew Kania (Trinity University) ‘Concepts of Pornography: Feminist Insights for Philosophers of Art’
10:00-11:00	Anne Eaton (University of Illinois at Chicago) ‘”A Lady on the Street But a Freak in the Bed”: On the Social Function of Erotic Art’
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12:15	Aaron Smuts (Rhode Island College) ‘On Asking: “Is it Better to Like Better Things?”’
12:15-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati) ‘Psychological and Philosophical Approaches to the Musical Emotions’
3:00-4:00	Tiger Roholt (Montclair State University) ‘A Methodological Distinction Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music’
4:00-4:15	Break
4:15-5:15	Margaret Moore (Leeds University, UK) ‘Metacriticism and Metaphysical Fetishism’
5:15-6:15	Christy Mag Uidhir (City College of New York) ‘Philosophy of Art & Contemporary Metaphysics: Deference, Independence, & Responsibility’

9:00-10:00	Sandy Shapshay (Indiana University, Bloomington) ‘Methods in Aesthetics: The Case of Schopenhauer’
10:00-11:00	Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Belgium) ‘The Sublime in Art: A Neo-Kantian Account’
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12:15	Aaron Meskin (Leeds University, UK) ‘The Trouble With Aesthetics: The Unreliability of Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Testimony’
12:15-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University, UK) ‘Explanatory Dualism in Empirical Aesthetics: A New Reading’
3:00-4:00	William Seeley (Bates College) ‘ξΦαμ, ARMUI, or Towards an Old Fashioned Methodology For a Cognitive Neuroscience of Art’
4:00-4:15	Break
4:15-5:15	Sam Liao (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) ‘Empirically Investigating Imaginative Resistance’
5:15-6:15	Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton) ‘What Can Empirically Driven Philosophy of Film Tell Us About Film and Feeling?’