Paca Pérez-Carreño has been elected President of the European Society of Aesthetics. She was voted president by the assembly of the Society that gathered during the ESA Conference 2015, 11st-13rd of June, in Dublin. Part of the executive committee was also voted and Matilde Carrasco-Barranco was elected to continue as part of it for the … Read more
Stephen Davies, Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will give two seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy of Murcia. He will present ‘On the nature of human adornment’ and ‘On the evolutionary origins of music’, both at 11:30 on the 17th and 18th of April respectively. Venue: Room Taller de Estética (Luis Vives Building)
Next Wednesday 18th of March, Dominique Chateau, Professor in the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, will present his text entitled “Artistic values, aesthetic values and aestheticization”. After the presentation discussion will be open to those attending the seminar at 11:30 in the room Taller de Estética (Luis Vives Building. Faculty of Philosophy)
The 10th Workshop on Aesthetic Experience will take place in Murcia on the 14-15 May 2015. The topic will be Negative Aesthetic Experience and Artistic Value including Carole Talon-Hugon as main speaker. The program is available here.
The IX Workshop on Aesthetic Experience took place in San Sebastián between the 19th and the 20th of December 2014. The topic Mixed Feelings, Mixed Categories? gathered works from researchers from the Universities of Murcia, UPV-EHU, Autónoma de Barcelona, and Kent.
On the 10th of July this year, Alicia Bermejo Salar, former PhD student in the Area of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Department of Philosophy of The University of Murcia presented and defended her doctoral thesis “The Problem of Interpretation in Art: Intention and Meaning”, supervised by Francisca Pérez Carreño. Her work has … Read more
Mª José Alcaraz León leads a new research project, “Aesthetic value and its relationship to other values in appreciative practice”, funded by the Program Jóvenes Líderes en Investigación de la Fundación Séneca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia (18958/JLI/13). The project will last from 01/07/2014 until 30/06/2016. The members of this research group … Read more
Estética has just been published by Tecnos (Madrid). The book is comprised of eight essays on central questions in philosophical aesthetics with articles by Mª José Alcaraz, Matilde Carrasco, Robert Hopkins, Derek Matravers, Paca Pérez Carreño, Salvador Rubio, Marta Tafalla and Gerard Vilar. More information: http://www.tecnos.es/ficha.php?id=2907502&id_clase=
Mª José Alcaraz has won the VIII edition of the Awards with which Fundación Séneca distinguishes young researchers of Murcia. In 2012, the award was given for research in Humanities and Social Sciences and, from the 26 candidates, the tribunal chose María José Alcaraz due to her exceptional career studying “the Philosophy of Art and, … Read more
Mª José Alcaraz’s PhD dissertation Arthur Danto’s definition of art: from indiscernible objects to embodied meanings has been the most downloaded one in the University of Murcia during the academic year 2011-2012. For this reason, Mª José Alcaraz and her tutor Paca Pérez Carreño were awarded at a ceremony that took place the 19th of … Read more