ASA Members at the 2021 APA Pacific Meeting

Are you attending the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association April 5-10? Many ASA members are presenting their work on aesthetics and related areas. We hope you can attend their sessions!

Monday, April 5

8:00-9:00 am Metaphysics
Chair: David Friedell (Union College)
Speaker: Tim Juvshik (Umass-Amherst): "Good 'Cat', Bad 'Act'"

9:00-10:00 am Ethics and Technology
Commentator: Flo Leibowitz (Oregon State University)

11:00 am -12:00 n Kant
Chair: Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University)
Commentator: Morganna Lambeth (Purdue University

8:00-11:00 am

Book Symposium: William Seeley, Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts
Chair: Barbara Gail Montero (CUNY/Graduate Center)
Speakers: Beatriz Calvo-Merino (City, University of London)
Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin)
William Seeley (University of Southern Maine)

East Asian Philosophy and Virtue Epistemology
Speaker: Julianne Chung (York University): "Skepticism, Wu-wei Virtue, and the Zhuangzi"

11:30 am - 2:30 pm
Invited Symposium: Poetry and Creativity
Speaker: Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University): "Fiction, Embellishment, and the Poetic Imagination"

Society for Philosophy of Agency: Agency and Aesthetics
Speakers: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University): "Aesthetic Agency: The Authority Approach"
C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah): "Maybe Disagreement Is the Point"
Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia): "Two Dogmas of Aesthetic Empiricism"

Tuesday, April 6

8:00-11:00 am
Book Symposium: Rachel Zuckert, Herder's Naturalism Aesthetics
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley)
Naomi Fisher (Loyola University Chicago)
Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona)
Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)

Colloquium: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
11:00 am - 12 n
Speaker: Hannah Kim (Stanford University): "Music, Convention, and Sound  Symbolism"

1:00 - 2:00 pm
Chair: Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University)
Speaker: Patrick Grafton-Cardwell (Umass-Amherst): "Becoming Art"
Commentator: E. Hande Tuna (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Wednesday, April 7

8:00-11:00 am
American Society for Aesthetics: Tea for Who? Social Aspects of the Aesthetics of Food & Drink
Chair: Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University)
Speakers: Emily Brady (Texas A&M University): "Agriculture and Aesthetics: The Pastoral, the Wild, and the Good"
Andrea Baldini (Nanjing University), Andrea Borghini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Matteo Ravasio (Peking University): "Culinary Authenticity and Cultural Heritage"
C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah): "The Social Aesthetics of Food Rituals"
Aaron Meskin (University of Georgia): "The Social Construction of an Aesthetic Person Kind: Foodie and Foodies"

Special thanks to Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona) for organizing this session on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Friday, April 9

3:00 - 5:00 pm
Emotion and Truth in Literature
Commentator: Robbie Kubala (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Complete APA Program: https://www.apaonline.org/event/2021pacific

ASA Members: If we overlooked your presentation, please rush an email to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org so we can make the correction.