SCRUTON’S AESTHETICS CONFERENCE

The Castle, University College, Durham University

Programme

Tuesday 22^nd July 2008

Lunch

·         2.15-3.30 p.m.  Main session: Senate Lounge

Greg Currie (Nottingham):

“Ironic Pictures”.

(CHAIR: Andy Hamilton)

·         3.30-4.30 p.m.  Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Cain Todd (Lancaster):

"Scruton on Wine: Outlining the Normative Terroir of Tastes and Smells" (CHAIR: Jason Gaiger)

West Courtyard: Deniz Peters (Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz):

"Musical Understanding, Leib, and Intersubjectivity" (CHAIR: Nic McKay)

Tea

·         5.00-6.00 p.m.  Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Ed Winters (Department of Fine Art, West Dean College):

"Street Life, Street Furniture, Graffiti, Junkyards and Being Drunk: An urbane Response to Rusticity" (CHAIR: Rob van Gerwen)

West Courtyard: Chris Stevens (Maryland):

"Aesthetics, Culture, and Conservative Perfectionist Politics: are Liberal Aestheticians Unwittingly Committed to Scrutonian Cultural Perfectionism?" (CHAIR: Mark Dooley)

·         6.00- 7.15 p.m.  Main session; Senate Lounge

Jerrold Levinson (Maryland):

“The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music”.

(CHAIR: Max Paddison)

Reception 7.15 p.m.  

Wednesday 22^nd July 2008

Breakfast

·         9.15-10.00 a.m. Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Katrina Mitcheson (Warwick):

“Representation in Photography” (CHAIR: Dawn Phillips)

West Courtyard: Rob van Gerwen (Utrecht):

"Expression as Success: The Psychological Reality of Musical Performance" (CHAIR: Franz Knappik)

·         10.00-11.15 a.m. Main session: Senate Lounge

Kathleen Stock (Sussex):

“Fantasy, Imagination and Art”

(CHAIR: Greg Currie)

Tea

·         11.45-12.45 p.m.  Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Rafael De Clercq (Leuven),

"Scruton's Philosophy of Architecture" (CHAIR: Ed Winters)

West Courtyard: Mark Dooley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth):

"Saving the Sacred: Scruton and Rorty on Religion" (CHAIR: Chris Stevens)

Lunch

·         2.00- 3.00 p.m.  Main session: Senate Lounge

Peter Lamarque (York):

"The Disintegration of Aesthetics".

(CHAIR: Aaron Meskin)

·         3.00-4.00 p.m.  Main session: Senate Lounge

Andy Hamilton (Durham):

“Scruton's Philosophy of Culture: Elitism, Populism and Classic Art”.

(CHAIR: Jason Gaiger)

Tea

·         4.30-5.15 p.m.  Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Dawn Phillips (Warwick):

"Photography and Causation: Responding to Scruton’s Scepticism" (CHAIR: Daniel Gallagher)

West Courtyard: Hannah McKeown (Chicago):

“Atonality and Meaning” (CHAIR: Zeynep Bulut)

·         5.15-6. 45 p.m.  Main session: Senate Lounge

Senate Lounge: Roger Scruton (Wiltshire):

“Imagination and its Discontents”.

(CHAIR: Nick Zangwill)

Conference Dinner 8 pm (Senate Lounge.)

Thursday 24^th July 2008

·         9.15-10.00 a.m. Parallel sessions

Senate Lounge: Martin Holt (Film Department, City University London):

"Metaphorical Moment, versus Movement as Metamorphosis: A response to Scruton on Musical Movement" (CHAIR: Anthony Gritten)

West Courtyard: Michael Funk Deckard (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Lenoir-Rhyne College, North Carolina):

"Delicacy of Taste and the Imagination: Aesthetic Concepts in Sibley and the Early Scruton Revisited" (CHAIR: Cain Todd)

·       10.00-11.30 a.m. Main session – Philosophy of Music Round Table: Senate Lounge

Michael Spitzer (Music, Durham), 'Scruton's "hearing as" and musical metaphor'.

Franz Knappik (Munich): "Scruton and Wittgenstein on expression in music"

Daniel Gallagher (Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit): "Representational theory: the true Phantom of the Opera"

Nick Zangwill (Durham): “Scruton’s Musical Experiences”.

(CHAIR: Jerrold Levinson)

Tea

·       12.00-1.15 p.m.   Main session: Senate Lounge

David Davies (McGill):

"Scruton on the Inscrutability of Photographs".

(CHAIR: Jonathan Friday)

Lunch: END of conference