Manuel Dries Senior Lecturer in Philosophy The Open University | Associate Faculty Member in Philosophy (Wolfson College)
James Grant Associate Professor William Kneale and Le Rossignol–Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Exeter College
16 Jan Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 1, HT23) David Collins (Oxford): 'Reformulating Virtue Aesthetics on the Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethical Model' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
10 Oct Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 1, MT22) James Lewis | Birmingham | 'Interpersonal Communion and Aesthetic Appreciation' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Oct Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 1, MT23) Thomas Adajian (James Madison University): 'Pluralism, Beauty, Artistic Value: Questions' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
24 Apr Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 1, TT23) Jason Gaiger (Oxford): 'What is a Detail?' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
30 Jan Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 3, HT23) Zoe Walker (Oxford): 'Blind Oedipus: Tragic Catharsis and Moral Bad Luck' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
24 Oct Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 3, MT22) Hans Maes (University of Kent): 'Aesthetic Melancholy' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
23 Oct Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 3, MT23) Stephen Mulhall (Oxford): 'The Proving Window: Inversion, Perfectionism, and the Unknown Woman in Christopher Nolan's Tenet' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
8 May Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 3, TT23) Sonia Sedivy (Toronto): 'Aesthetic Properties and Philosophy of Perception' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
13 Feb Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 5, HT23) Víctor Durà-Vilà (Leeds): 'The Appreciative Demands of Challenging Art: Originality, Epistemic Gains and Moral Seriousness' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
7 Nov Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 5, MT22) Derek Matravers (Open University): 'Representations and How We Access Them: Implications for Fiction' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
6 Nov Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 5, MT23) Claire Anscomb (De Montfort University): 'An Imaginative Aid? Creating Images with Generative AI' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
22 May Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 5, TT23) Dawn Wilson (Hull): 'Metavision, Machine Vision, and Machine-Generated Images' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
27 Feb Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 7, HT23) Vanessa Brassey (King's College London): 'Time for Twofoldedness' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
21 Nov Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 7, MT22) Karen Simecek (University of Warwick): 'Cultivating Intellectual Humility through Lyric Poetry' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
20 Nov Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 7, MT23) Diarmuid Costello (Warwick): 'Wrongful, Degrading, or Merely Indecent? Exploitation in Three Works by Santiago Sierra' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
5 Jun Aesthetics Seminar (Monday - Week 7, TT23) Andrew Huddleston (Warwick): 'Beyond Good and Evil: George Eliot and the Religion of Humanity in Middlemarch' Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
2 May Aesthetics Seminar (Thursday - Week 1, TT19) Stacie Friend | Birkbeck | ‘Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question’ Quarrell Room, Exeter College
28 Jan Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 2, HT20) Robert Hopkins | New York University | Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals Memorial Room, The Queen’s College
14 May Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 3, TT19) Eileen John | Warwick | ‘The Experience of Necessity in Poetry’ Quarrell Room, Exeter College
11 Feb Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 4, HT20) Keren Gorodeisky | Auburn University | ‘Why Must it be Either One or the Other?’ Reasons in Criticism. (Memorial Room, The Queen’s College)
28 May Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 5, TT19) Jason Gaiger | Oxford | ‘Parthood and Composition: A Mereological Approach to Installation Art’ (Quarrell Room, Exeter College)
25 Feb Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 6, HT20) James Shelley | Auburn University | What makes aesthetic value aesthetic? Memorial Room, The Queen’s College
11 Jun Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 7, TT19) Gwen Bradford | Rice | ‘Uniqueness and Intrinsic Value’ Quarrell Room, Exeter College
10 Mar Aesthetics Seminar (Tuesday - Week 8, HT20) Solveig Aasen | University of Oslo | What Is It for Music and Dance to Match? (Memorial Room, The Queen’s College)
