Programme & Papers
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All times are in Western European Time (Lisbon/London)
Monday 4 April, 2022
09.00 Opening remarks
João Constâncio (Director of IFILNOVA), António Marques, João Lemos, and Rachel Siow Robertson
João Constâncio (Director of IFILNOVA), António Marques, João Lemos, and Rachel Siow Robertson
9.30-11.00 Keynote Lecture
Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge), ‘Aesthetics and cognition in Kant’
9.30-10.15 Lecture
10.15-11.00 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge), ‘Aesthetics and cognition in Kant’
9.30-10.15 Lecture
10.15-11.00 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-12:45 Session One
11.15-11.45 Selda Salman (Istanbul Kultur University), ‘Conceptual and nonconceptual contents and the fate of the imagination’ abstract
11.45-12.15 Robert Clewis (Gwynedd Mercy University), ‘How to Distinguish and Reconcile Sensitive and Conceptual Taste’ handout
12.15-12.45 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
11.15-11.45 Selda Salman (Istanbul Kultur University), ‘Conceptual and nonconceptual contents and the fate of the imagination’ abstract
11.45-12.15 Robert Clewis (Gwynedd Mercy University), ‘How to Distinguish and Reconcile Sensitive and Conceptual Taste’ handout
12.15-12.45 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session Two
14.00-14.30 Luigi Filieri (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), ‘The Free Lawfulness of Kant’s Aesthetic Schematism’ handout
14.30-15.00 Senthuran Bhuvanendra (University of Cambridge), ‘Exercising free lawful imagination through the dynamic feeling of life’
15.00-15.30 Discussion Chair: Francisco Lisboa
14.00-14.30 Luigi Filieri (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), ‘The Free Lawfulness of Kant’s Aesthetic Schematism’ handout
14.30-15.00 Senthuran Bhuvanendra (University of Cambridge), ‘Exercising free lawful imagination through the dynamic feeling of life’
15.00-15.30 Discussion Chair: Francisco Lisboa
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.15 Session Three
15.45-16.15 Lyra Ekström Lindbäck (University of Pardubice), ‘The Non-Conceptuality of the Aesthetic Judgement and the Conceptual Art of Literature’
16.15-16.45 Rachel Siow Robertson (University of Cambridge/ Faraday Institute for Science and Religion), ‘Kant on Embodiment and Aesthetic Appreciation’
16.45-17.15 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
15.45-16.15 Lyra Ekström Lindbäck (University of Pardubice), ‘The Non-Conceptuality of the Aesthetic Judgement and the Conceptual Art of Literature’
16.15-16.45 Rachel Siow Robertson (University of Cambridge/ Faraday Institute for Science and Religion), ‘Kant on Embodiment and Aesthetic Appreciation’
16.45-17.15 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-19.00 Session Four
17.30-18.00 Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University), ‘The Cognitive Basis of Disinterested Pleasure in Kant: How and Why Works of Art Help with Mental Growth’
18.00-18.30 Lou Agosta (Ross Medical University), ‘A Rumor of Empathy in Kant’s Aesthetics and Critique of Judgment’ handout
18.30-19.00 Discussion Chair: Francisco Maia
17.30-18.00 Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University), ‘The Cognitive Basis of Disinterested Pleasure in Kant: How and Why Works of Art Help with Mental Growth’
18.00-18.30 Lou Agosta (Ross Medical University), ‘A Rumor of Empathy in Kant’s Aesthetics and Critique of Judgment’ handout
18.30-19.00 Discussion Chair: Francisco Maia
Tuesday 5 April, 2022
09.00-10.30 Session One
09.00-09.30 Moran Godess-Riccitelli (Bar-Ilan University / University of Potsdam), ‘The Figurative Language of Nature. How to Represent Natural Beauty as Meaningful?’ abstract
09.30-10.00 Aviv Reiter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) & Ido Geiger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), ‘Kant’s Analytic of the Beautiful and the Question of its Application to Fine Art’
10.00-10.30 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
09.00-09.30 Moran Godess-Riccitelli (Bar-Ilan University / University of Potsdam), ‘The Figurative Language of Nature. How to Represent Natural Beauty as Meaningful?’ abstract
09.30-10.00 Aviv Reiter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) & Ido Geiger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), ‘Kant’s Analytic of the Beautiful and the Question of its Application to Fine Art’
10.00-10.30 Discussion Chair: João Lemos
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.15 Session Two
10.45-11.15 Tiago Sousa (University of Minho), ‘Is Kant a musical formalist? The problematic relationship between form, representation and expression in the Kantian musical aesthetic judgment’
11.15-11.45 João Lemos (Nova University of Lisbon), ‘Unpacking 5: 327 using Kant's lectures’ abstract
11.45-12.15 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
10.45-11.15 Tiago Sousa (University of Minho), ‘Is Kant a musical formalist? The problematic relationship between form, representation and expression in the Kantian musical aesthetic judgment’
11.15-11.45 João Lemos (Nova University of Lisbon), ‘Unpacking 5: 327 using Kant's lectures’ abstract
11.45-12.15 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session Three
13.30-14.00 Elena Romano (Freie Universität Berlin), ‘Can everything be beautiful? A Kantian puzzle’
14.00-14.30 Larissa Berger (Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research / Massachusetts Institute of Technology), ‘Why there must be a Kantian conception of ugliness, and why there cannot be one’
14.30-15.00 Discussion Chair: Francisco Lisboa
13.30-14.00 Elena Romano (Freie Universität Berlin), ‘Can everything be beautiful? A Kantian puzzle’
14.00-14.30 Larissa Berger (Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research / Massachusetts Institute of Technology), ‘Why there must be a Kantian conception of ugliness, and why there cannot be one’
14.30-15.00 Discussion Chair: Francisco Lisboa
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16:45 Session Four
15.15-15.45 Fernando Silva (University of Lisbon), ‘“All inventions are the offspring of poetry”. Kant on the singularity of imaginative creation’
15.45-16.15 Júlia Vernet (University of Barcelona), ‘The Gemüt in the third Critique of Kant as a key to understand the relation between imagination and freedom’
16.15-16.45 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
15.15-15.45 Fernando Silva (University of Lisbon), ‘“All inventions are the offspring of poetry”. Kant on the singularity of imaginative creation’
15.45-16.15 Júlia Vernet (University of Barcelona), ‘The Gemüt in the third Critique of Kant as a key to understand the relation between imagination and freedom’
16.15-16.45 Discussion Chair: Rachel Siow Robertson
16.45-17.00 Break
17.00-18.30 Session Five
17.00-17.30 Inês Salgueiro (University of Coimbra / Nova University of Lisbon), ‘A Kantian Defence of Environmental Concern'
17.30-18.00 Semyon Reshenin (University of Tartu), ‘Aesthetic experience as a condition for the moral practice’ handout
18.00-18.30 Discussion Chair: Francisco Maia
17.00-17.30 Inês Salgueiro (University of Coimbra / Nova University of Lisbon), ‘A Kantian Defence of Environmental Concern'
17.30-18.00 Semyon Reshenin (University of Tartu), ‘Aesthetic experience as a condition for the moral practice’ handout
18.00-18.30 Discussion Chair: Francisco Maia
18.30 Closing Remarks João Lemos & Rachel Siow Robertson