An International Interdisciplinary Conference
California State University
Fullerton
June 22-23, 2006
Sponsored By:
CSU Fullerton
The American Society for Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics
speakers
in alphabetical order
Heather Battaly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. She does research in ethics, epistemology, and virtue theory. Some of her recent publications include "Thin Concepts to the Rescue: Thinning the Concepts of Epistemic Justification and Intellectual Virtue," in Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski, eds. Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston , co-edited with Michael P. Lynch, ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Professor Battaly is also on the program committee of the American Philosophical Association and is a member of the executive board of the Society for Women in Philosophy.
http://hss.fullerton.edu/philosophy/Battaly.htm
Noel Carroll is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Temple University. He is the author of dozens of books and articles, including Engaging the Moving Image (Blackwell, 2003), Beyond Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999), Interpreting the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Theorizing the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990). As a journalist, he has written for The Chicago Reader, Artforum , In These Times , Dance Magazine Soho Weekly News, and The Village Voice . Professor Carroll is Past-President of the American Society for Aesthetics. In 2002, Professor Carroll received a Guggenheim fellowship to explore the relationship of philosophy and dance. He has also written five documentaries.
http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/fac_carroll.html
Amy Coplan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. Her current research interests include issues at the intersection of moral psychology and aesthetics, philosophy of emotion, and ancient Greek philosophy. Some of her recent publications include ""Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions" in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ( 2004), "Caring About Characters: Emotional Contagion Responses to Narrative Fiction Film" forthcoming in Film Studies: An International Review , and "Caring About Characters: Three Determinants of Emotional Engagement" forthcoming in Film and Philosophy . Professor Coplan is currently the executive secretary for the Society for Women in Philosophy.
http://hss.fullerton.edu/philosophy/Coplan.htm
Gregory Currie is Head of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham. He is an editor of Mind and Language , a Past Fellow of St John's College,Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, The London School of Economics, The Institute of Advanced Study, Australian National University, The University of Maryland and The University of St Andrews. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Arts and Minds (Oxford 2004), Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology , with Ian Ravenscroft, (Oxford, 2002), and Image and Mind: Philosophy, Film and Cognitive Science (Cambridge, 1995).
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/gregory-currie.htm
Peter Goldie is Samuel Hall Chair of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Philosophy and Conceptual Art , as co-editor, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), On Personality , (Routledge, 2004), Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals , as editor, (Ashgate Publishing, 2002), and The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration, (Clarendon Press, 2000).
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/goldie/goldie.htm
Stephen Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Philosophy of Art (Blackwell Publishing, 2006), Definitions of Art (Cornell University Press, 1991), Musical Meaning and Expression (Cornell University Press, 1994), Musical Works and Performances: A Philosophical Exploration (Clarendon Press, 2001), and Themes in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford University Press, 2003). Professor Davies is currently the Vice President of the American Society for Aesthetics.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/phi/staff/stephen_davies.htm
Paul L. Harris is Professor of Education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. He is the author of numerous articles and books in psychology, including The Work of the Imagination (Blackwell, 2000), Children and Emotion (Blackwell, 2000), and Imaging the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children , ed. with K. Rosenbren and C. Johnson (2000).
http://hugse9.harvard.edu/gsedata/Resource_pkg.profile?vperson_id=445
Martin L. Hoffman is Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at New York University. He is the author of dozens of articles and books on empathy and role of empathy in moral life, including Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2000), "A Comprehensive Theory of Prosocial Moral Development" (in Constructive and Destructive Behavior , 2001), and "How Automatic and Representational is Empathy and Why? ( Brain and Behavioral Sciences , in press).
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/hoffman/
E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English & Comparative Literature and founder and director of the Humanities Institute at SUNY Stony Brook. She is a leading researcher in feminist film theory, psychoanalysis and postmodernism, and cultural studies. She is the author of dozens of articles and books, including Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005, Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze (Routledge, 1997), and Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera (1983). Professor Kaplan is also past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/englishweb2.nsf/pages/kaplan
Derek Matravers is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University in the UK and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is author of several articles and books, including Art and the Emotions: A Defence of the Arousal Theory (Oxford, 1998), and Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy , (edited with Jon Pike), (Routledge, 2002).
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/philos/matravers.htm
Jesse Prinz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. His primary research is in the philosophy of
psychology, broadly construed. He is the author of dozens of books and
articles, including Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (MIT, 2002), Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion, which was a
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 (Oxford, 2004), The Emotional
Construction of Morals (Oxford, 2007), Beyond Human Nature (Penguin, 2007),
and The Conscious Brain (Oxford, forthcoming). During 2005-2006, Professor
Prinz is a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences. He has held visiting positions at the Ecole Normale Superieure in
Paris, the University of London, California Institute of Technology, and the
University of Maryland at College Park.
http://philosophy.unc.edu/prinz.html
Murray Smith is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Engaging Characters : Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Oxford, 1995). Film Theory and Philosophy, edited with Richard Allen, (Oxford, 1999), and Trainspotting (British Film Institute, 2002).
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/film/stafflist/msmith.htm
Kendall Walton is Charles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He is author of numerous articles and books, including Mimesis as Make Believe (Harvard University Press, Art and Value (Oxford, forthcoming), and In Other Shoes (Oxford, forthcoming). Professor Walton has held fellowships from the NEH, the ACLS, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Stanford Humanities Center. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/klwalton