All meetings are 9:00 to 12:30 in Buchanan D324.
Monday July 9th Aesthetic Hedonism and Its Critics
Mothersill, Beauty Restored, ch. 11
Matthen, “New Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism”
Wollheim, “Public Support for the Arts”
Welcome Reception
Tuesday, July 10th
Levinson, “Hume’s Standard of Taste: The Real Problem”
Shelley, “Hume and the Value of the Beautiful”
Lopes, “From Feeling Well to Being Well”
Wednesday, July 11th
Silvers, “Aesthetic ‘Akrasia’: On Disliking Good Art”
Cross, “Art Criticism as Practical Reasoning”
McGonigal, “Aesthetic Reasons,” pp. 3–17, especially. 3–6 and 10–17
Thursday July 12th
Lead: Keren Gorodeiski
Moran, “Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty”
Monday, July 16th Beauty and Transcendence
Abhinavagupta, The New Dramatic Art, 1.272–80 (see chapter 4, section 2 of Pollock, The Rasa Reader)
Tuesday, July 17th Beauty to Autonomy
Lead: Samantha Matherne and Nick Riggle
Schiller, Letters on Aesthetic Education, selections 1-4, 8–9, 12, 14–15, 21, 23–5
Wednesday, July 18th Beauty and Virtue
Lead: James Shelley
Murdoch, “The Sovereignty of the Good over Other Concepts”
Goldie, “Virtues of Art and Human Well-Being”
Thursday, July 19th Beauty and Value
Wolf, “Good for Nothings”
Levinson, “Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life”
Tuesday, July 24th Aesthetic Personality
Ribeiro, “Aesthetic Luck”
Kubala, “Grounding Aesthetic Obligations”
Dialogue: Nick and Samantha
Wednesday, July 25th Beauty and Happiness
Leads: Anthony Cross and Sarah Hegenbart
Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness, chs 3 and 4
Thursday, July 26th Debunking Beauty
Lead: Jonathan Weinberg
Emerson, “Beauty” and “Nature”
Davies, The Artful Species, ch. 6
Closing Dinner
Friday, July 27th Wrap Up