ASA Funds Symposium on Themes from the Work of Paul Guyer

The American Society for Aesthetics has awarded a grant of $3,000 in support of the Symposium on Themes from the Work of Paul Guyer at Brown University April 19-20, 2024. The project is directed by Wiebke Deimling (Clark University) and Bradford Winegar (Fordham University).

Conference poster and Schedule

The ASA grant will support travel for three speakers on aesthetics at the Symposium: Noel Carroll (CUNY), Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University), and Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University). The Symposium also will include session on Idealism, Kant's Theoretical Philosophy, and Kant's Practical Philosophy, supported by the Department of Philosophy at Brown. The Symposium will be free and open to the public.

Paul Guyer served as the ASA President and Vice-President and has been an editorial board member for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He came to Brown in 2012 as the Inaugural Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy. Guyer received his PhD from Harvard in 1974, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois-Chicago before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for thirty years. At Penn, he was the Florence R. C. Murray Professor in the Humanities. He has also been a visiting professor at Michigan, Princeton, and Harvard.