ARC

Welcome

The Aesthetics Research Centre coordinates, enables and promotes research in philosophy of art and aesthetics at the University of Kent. ARC brings together faculty and postgraduate students from four different departments and three different schools and is characterised by a strong interdisciplinary ethos.

Spring 2018 Events

Tuesday 13^th February 2018 at 6pm in Keynes Seminar Room 11
Research seminar with Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of Southampton)
‘The Causal Theory of Photography and Anti-Empiricist Evaluations’

Tuesday 3^rd April 2018 at 5pm in Keynes Seminar Room 11

Research seminar with James McDowell
Title tbc

Wednesday 23^rd May 2018 at 5pm in Keynes Seminar Room 1

Research seminar with Vid Simoniti, Churchill College, Cambridge
Title tbc

Members

Director

Dr Michael Newall (History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent)

Members

- Dr Cecilia Sayad (Film, University of Kent)
- Dr Dominic Topp (Film, University of Kent)
- Dr Dieter Declercq (Film, School of Arts)
- Dr Edward Kanterian (Philosophy, University of Kent)
- Dr Graeme A. Forbes (Philosophy, University of Kent)
- Dr Hans Maes (History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent)
- Dr Jonathan Friday (History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent)
- Dr Lubomira Radoilska (Philosophy, University of Kent)
- Dr Margrethe Bruun Vaage (Film, University of Kent)
- Prof Murray Smith (Film, University of Kent)
- Dr Mark Windsor (History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent)
- Dr Simon Kirchin (Philosophy, University of Kent)
- Dr Sean Williams (School of Music and Fine Arts, Audio Electronics, University of Kent)

Our postgraduate members

- Alaina Piro Schempp (Phd Candidate Film, School of Arts)
- Claire Anscombe (Phd Candidate History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)
- Eleen M Deprez (Phd Candidate History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)
- Francesca Cavallo (Phd Candidate History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)
- Neil McCarthy (PhD Candidate Film, School of Arts)
- Jade Wackett (Phd Candidate History of Art, School of Arts)
- Sabina Sitoianu (Phd Candidate Film, School of Arts)
- Sara Janssen (Phd Candidate Film and History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)
- Shelby Moser (Phd Candidate History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)
- Tracey Falcon (Phd Candidate History and Philosophy of Art, School of Arts)

Advisory committee

Professor David Davies (McGill, Canada)
Professor Matthew Kieran (University of Leeds, UK)
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland, USA)
Professor Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
Associate Professor Jennifer McMahon (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Professor Alex Neill (Southampton University, UK)
Professor Elisabeth Schellekens (University of Uppsala & University of Durham)
Dr. Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex, UK)

Research expertise

The group has particular research expertise around visual art forms including painting, photography and film; depiction and representation; intersections between ethics and aesthetics; beauty, taste and the sublime in 18th century aesthetics; the aesthetics of popular music; the interrelations between art and science; and topics in the contemporary philosophy of art.

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