ASA Members at the 2025 APA Central Meeting

Are you going to the APA Central (Virtual) meeting February 20 - March 1, 2025?  Please support the ASA members on the program. The complete APA program is here. All times CST.

Thursday, February 20

10:00 am-12:20 pm

Society for German Idealism and Romanticism
Kant on Aesthetic Feeling and A Priori Form
Speaker: Keren Gorodeisky  (Auburn University), "Aesthetic Affinities: Kant and Murdoch"

2:30-4:10 pm

Society for German Idealism and Romanticism
"Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Normativity"
Speaker: Juan Carlos Gonzalez (Colby College)

5:00-6:40 pm

Concepts and Consequence
Commentator: Chenyu Bu (The University of Texas at Austin)

Saturday, February 22

10:00-11:40 am

Symposium on Metaethics
Commentator: Robbie Kubala (The University of Texas at Austin)

12:30-2:10 pm

Public Philosophy: Its Impact, Challenges, and Opportunities
Panelist: Hannah Kim (University of Arizona)

Thursday, February 27

10:00-11:40 am

American Society for Aesthetics
Music, Literature, and Creativity
Chair: Sean T. Murphy (Southern Utah University)
Chenyu Bu (The University of Texas at Austin), "Doing Away with Works: Let's Talk about Music"
Jeremiah Tillman (University of Maryland, College Park), "The Aesthetic Role of Grief in Proust's In Search of Lost Time"
Nathan Allen (Virginia Tech University), "Puzzle About Creativity"

12:30-2:10 pm

American Society for Aesthetics
Environmental Aesthetics and Wonder
Chair: Sean T. Murphy (Southern Utah University)
Speakers: L. Brooke Rudow (University of Central Florida, "Aesthetic Injustice in Nature"
Tony Chackal (August University), "Ick and Inequity: Embedded Disgust and Environmental Aesthetic Injustice"
Eric MacTaggart (Independent Scholar), "Appropriate Wonder"

Thanks to Sean Murphy for organizing these sessions on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics.

2:30-4:10 pm

Uses of Philosophical Imagination
Chair: Julianne Chung (York University, Canada)
Panelists: Lindsay Brainard (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

5:00-6:40 pm

Applied Ontology
Speaker: Barbara Montero (University of Notre Dame), "Free Speech and the Mind-Body Problem"

Saturday, March 1

10:00-11:40 am

John Dewey Lecture
Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), "The Wages of Luck"

12:30-2:10 pm

International Association for the Philosophy of Humor
Speaker: Zoe Walker (Trinity College, Oxford), "Dark Comedy: Immorality, Perspectives, and Amusement"

2:30-4:10 pm

Book Symposium: Unshrinking by Kate Manne
Speakers: Celine Le Boeuf (Florida International University)
Cheryl Frazier (University of Southern Maryland)