ASA Members at the 2024 APA Pacific Meeting

Are you going to the APA Pacific meeting in Portland, OR March 20-23, 2024? Please support the ASA members on the program.

Wednesday, March 20

4:00-6:00 pm

Invited Symposium: Anne Dacier, Aesthetics, and Early Modern Philosophy
Chair: James O. Young (University of Victoria)
Speakers: Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Capilano University): "Anne Dacier and the Origins of Modern Aesthetics"
Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco): "Anne Dacier on Good Taste and Moral Knowledge"

6:00-8:00 pm

John Dewey Society: Pragmatism and the Liberal Arts
Speaker: Bethany Henning (Xavier University): "Commitment to Process: The Dynamic Canon and the LIberal Arts"

6:00-9:00 pm

International Association for the Philosophy of Humor: Philosophy of Humor
Speaker: Cynthia Willett (Emory University): "Feminist Uses of Humor"

Thursday, March 21

9:00 am-noon

Book Symposium: Michael Gill, A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)
Author: Michael Gill (University of Edinburgh)

Book Symposium: Paul Katsafanas, Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals
Speaker: Claire Kirwin (Northwestern University)

4:00-6:00 pm

Colloquium: Domination and Political Argumentation
Speaker: Shannon Brick (Georgetown University): "Digital Manipulation and Domination"

Friday, March 22

9:00-noon

Invited Symposium: New Directions in Philosophy of Music
Chair: Cynthia Willett (Emory University)
Speakers: Nemesio Garcia Carril Puy (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Re-Defining Musi: Contemporary and Methodological Challenges"
John Dyck (Auburn University) & Hannah Kim (University of Arizona): "The Content of Musical Silence"

Colloquium: Protest and Social Movements
Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

1:00-4:00 pm

Invited Symposium: Emotions and Disability
Speaker: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound): "Piss on Pity or Compassionate Concern?: Justified Emotional Responses of the Non-Disabled Toward the Disabled"

Invited Symposium: The Reach of Ancient Ethics
Speaker: Jonathan Fine (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

4:00-6:00 pm

Invited Symposium: Perception Matters
Speaker: Alva Noe (University of California, Berkeley)

Saturday, March 23

9:00-noon

Book Symposium: Wayne Wu, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention, and Action
Speaker: Antonia Peacocke (Stanford University)

1:00-4:00 pm

Book Symposium: Helen De Cruz, Philosophy Illustrated
Speakers: Sam Cowling (Denison University)
Aaron Meskin (University of Georgia)

4:00-6:00 pm

Colloquium: Aesthetic Value/Representation in Music
Commentators: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Morganna Lambeth (California State University, Fullerton)

6:00-8:00 pm

American Society for Aesthetics: Aesthetics of Sports & Games
Chair: Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona)
Speakers: Peg Brand Weiser (University of Oregon)
Dustin Stokes (University of Utah)
Stephen M. Downes (University of Utah)
Stephanie Patridge (University of Iowa)

Special thanks to Jonathan Weinberg for organizing this session on behalf of the ASA.

6:00-9:00 pm

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Speaker: Jonathan Fine (University of Hawai'i at Manoa): "Of Pots and Plato's Aesthetics"

ASA Members: Did we overlook your presentation on the program? Please rush a message to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org so we can make the correction.

For the complete APA Schedule