ASA Members at the 2025 APA Eastern Meeting

Are you going to the APA Eastern Meeting in New York City January 8-11, 2025? Please support the ASA members on the program. 

Wednesday, January 8

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Poetry and Comedy

Speaker: Hannah Kim (The University of Arizona), "Form and Thoughtwriting in Lyric Poetry"
Commentator: John Dyck (Auburn University)

2:00 - 3:50 pm

Aesthetic Costs of Being Medicated

Speaker: Angela Sun (Washington and Lee University), "Aesthetic Costs of Being Medicated"
Commentator: Kaci Harrison (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Reportability and Consciousness

Speaker: Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue University), "Reportability Does Not Entail Consciousness: A Study of Two Cases"

Pictures and Narrative Content

Speaker: Hannah Fasnacht (University of Basel), "How Single Pictures Evoke Narrative Content"
Commentator: Elizabeth Cantalamessa (St. Bonaventure University)

Book-in-Progress Session: Kenneth Walden, The Imperative of Genius
Speakers: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University)
Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College)

Invited Book Symposum: Robert Pippin, The Culmination
Chair: Francey Russell (Barnard College)
Robert Pippin (The University of Chicago)

Thursday, January 9

9:00 - 10:50 am

Value and Rationality in Aesthetics

Speaker: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University), "On Being Inspired by Art"
Commentator: Saul Fisher (Mercy University)

Speaker: Andrew Wynn Owen (The University of Texas at Austin), "Does a Plausible Construal of Aesthetic Value Give Us Reason to  Emphasize Some Aesthetic Practices Over Others?"
Commentator: Alexandra Hayes (Auburn University)

Kant: Metaphysics and Mind

Speaker: Mang Su (Temple University), "Temporality, Self-Affection, and the Feeling of Pleasure: An A-Normatic Reading of the Reflective Judgment of Taste in Kant's Critique of Judgment"
Commentator: Thomas Cantone (The New School)

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Imagination and  Transformative Experience

Speaker: Cathleen Muller (Marist College), "Imagining Transformative Experience"

4:00 - 5:50 pm

Aesthetic Normativity

Speakers: Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Commentator: Lindsay Brainard (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

7:00-10:00

American Society for Aesthetics

Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College), "Is Andy Warhol's Brillo Box an Illustration?"
John Dyck (Auburn University), "Simple Beauty"
Rose Flinn (New York University), "What is Design?"
Joseph Kassman-Tod (University of California, Berkeley), "Towards Ideas: Aesthetic Humility in Its Artwork-Directed Dimension" 
Elisa Caldarola (University of Turin and The Graduate Center-CUNY), "Artworks and Their Subject Matters"
Mateo Plebani (University of Turin)," Artworks and Their Subject Matters"
Karim Nader (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Desires in Interactive Fiction"

Special thanks to David Friedell for organizing this session on behalf of the ASA.

Center for New Narrative in Philosophy

Commentator: Samantha Matherne (Harvard University), "Edith Landmann-Kalischer: Reclaiming Her Importance"

Friday, January 10

9:00 - 10:50 am

Epistemology: Skepticism and Inference

Speaker: Gilbert Plumber (Law School Admissiono Council), "Learning about Inference from Argument"

The Philosophical Significance of Attention

Commentator: Craig Agule (Rutgers University-Camden)

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Imminent Critique and Critical Theory

Speaker: Summer Renault-Steele (The George Washington University), "A Decolonial Critical Theory? Reconsidering Immanent Critique and the Aesthetics of Historicism"

Invited Book Symposium: Nick Riggle, This Beauty

Chair: Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Speakers: Nick Riggle (University of San Diego)
James Ryerson (The New York Times)
Jonathan Fine (Georgetown University)

7:00 - 10:00 pm

Korean Philosophy and Comparative Philosophical Perspectives

Rafal Banka (Trinity University and University of the Incarnate Word), "Situating Experience in Chinese Philosophical Aesthetics"

Saturday, January 11

9:00 - 10:50 am

International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying: How to Treat the Dead

Speaker: Ashley Atkins (Western Michigan University), "Speaking lll of the Dead"

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Invited Session on Edited Volume: Analytic Existentialism, eds. Meri Marusic and Mark Schroeder

Speaker: Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers University)

The complete APA Program

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