British Journal of Aesthetics

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The Eastern Division Announces 2026 CFP and Special Speakers

We are pleased to announce that the CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2026 Eastern Division meeting is now available. We will be accepting submissions until November 15, 2025.

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Kant’s handling of the faked nature case is puzzling. The puzzle is understanding why faked natural beauty should elicit such a shift in the subject’s aesthetic judgment, given that the fake flowers and bird songs did initially please the lover of beautiful forms. Assuming one were never to realize the subterfuge, what difference should it make to the aesthetic appreciator that the flowers and bird songs are actually fakes?' - Corey A Beckford, Faked Nature? A Kantian Proto-Environmental Aesthetics

We're getting into the Third Critique's weeds (and hoping they're genuine) in this advance article. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

(psst... it's here: british-aesthetics.org)

Don't miss out on this year's annual conference!

We've got an awesome line-up of speakers and symposia for you on all things aesthetics.

Ticket discounts are available for society members and students.

Find out more and register over at our website.

JAAC 83.2 is Now Available Online - American Society For Aesthetics aesthetics-online.org/news/707451/...

ASA members have free access to all content via the Oxford site. Log into your account on the ASA web site. Print copies to regular ASA members have been mailed and should be arriving soon.

[I]f cognitive style consists in the ways in which individual brains organize, interpret, and give meaning to raw ocular data, the period eye is essentially a head-bound feature of individual agents. However, Baxandall also suggests that cognitive styles are culturally relative, which implies that the period eye might also be regarded as a distinctive feature of cultures rather than just individual mentation. - Jussi A Saarinen, From Period Eye to Niche Eye: Re-situating Renaissance Painting in a Landscape of Affordances

Baxandall's period eye meets enactivist philosophy of mind in this advance article. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

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In presenting his historically informed take on a phenomenology of images and media (or diaphenomenology), Alloa discusses Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Berkeley, Brentano, Husserl, Derrida, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Lyotard—employing them as resources for his alternative narrative and theory. - Robert R Clewis, Review of Emmanuel Alloa’s ‘Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media’

Robert Clewis reviews Emmanuel Alloa's recently translated monograph on the nature of images in our latest issue. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Grewal has arguments and an abundance of stories to tell: from masterful readings of the Greeks—the whole ensemble of philosophy, epic, tragedies, comedies, and art history—to Roman culture, and up the centuries all the way to contemporary literature, philosophy, and a few pearls; Fugees, Wu-Tang Clan, Pop Smoke, and more. It is a polymorphous and polysemic cast of examples and characters—but so is her book. - Laura T Di Summa, Review of Gwenda-Lin Grewal’s ‘Fashion Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion

Laura Di Summa reviews Gwenda-Lin Grewal's book on philosophy and fashion in our newest issue. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Although we can indeed describe the current critical scrutiny of drill as another iteration of the critical scrutiny of its predecessors, the scrutiny of drill is, as we will see, more severe. I show in the following sections how this has led to harsher levels of censorship and restriction. - Tareeq Omar Jalloh, Does the Critical Scrutiny of Drill Constitute an Epistemic Injustice?

The BSA's Postdoctoral Fellowship winner for this year is Tareeq Jalloh. Read his article from our October 2022 issue on the relationship between drill music and epistemic injustice. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philpapers

#philpapers? #philsky, of course.

Although we can indeed describe the current critical scrutiny of drill as another iteration of the critical scrutiny of its predecessors, the scrutiny of drill is, as we will see, more severe. I show in the following sections how this has led to harsher levels of censorship and restriction. - Tareeq Omar Jalloh, Does the Critical Scrutiny of Drill Constitute an Epistemic Injustice?

The BSA's Postdoctoral Fellowship winner for this year is Tareeq Jalloh. Read his article from our October 2022 issue on the relationship between drill music and epistemic injustice. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philpapers

Often, we are inclined to call things banal that we have heard several times before. If something is already widely known, then further attention to it can seem unlikely to further cognitive success. Sometimes this impression is right. However, sometimes, further attention to something can further our knowledge and understanding even if we have heard it several times, for example, if its full implications or full range of application are not widely understood, or if we do not habitually bring it to mind when we should. - Alice Harberd, Aesthetic Bias in Epistemic Evaluation and the Value of Art

Aesthetic properties can negatively bias our judgements of certain kinds of epistemic value. Or so argues Alice Harberd in our latest issue. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

We are pleased to announce that the preliminary program for the 83rd Annual Meeting to commence in Baltimore October 22-25, 2025 is now available: aesthetics-online.org/events/Event...

Commentator and chair slots are still needed - contact us at ASA83rdannualmeeting@gmail.com if you are interested.

In engaged musical performance, musicians assume or are taking on a certain commitment towards an immanent unity of emerging musical sense and let themselves be guided by the constant expectations that are evoked, modified, and transformed by the unfolding music. - Ståle Finke & Mattias Solli, The Normative Space of Musical Performance: Expertise and the Symbolic Body

Ståle Finke and Mattias Solli are talking musical performance in our new issue (and open access, too). doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

ASA Announces 85th Annual Meeting!

We are pleased to announce that the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics will be held in Providence, Rhode Island at the Omni Providence hotel.

SAVE THE DATES: October 20, 2027-October 23, 2027.

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Call for Proposals for Special Issue 2026 We invite proposals for a Guest-Edited Special issue to be published in the BJA in 2026. We welcome applications either for individual or for joint Guest Editor

The BJA's editors welcome proposals for Special Issues and Symposia. Details for each, here 👇

Special Issues: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...

Symposia: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...

Plato interrogates the association of beauty with class to expose the dangers of relying on cultural examples in inquiry into beauty. Socrates invokes the pot to contest an aristocratic conception of beauty presumed by Hippias. By beginning with this strategic series of examples, Plato illustrates the need to critique cultural norms that guide inquiry into beauty. - Jonathan Fine, On Pots and Plato’s Aesthetics

In our new issue, Jonathan Fine considers the significance of a pot in Plato's Hippias Major. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

[T]he painter is concerned with exposing and uncovering by figurative or expressive means the ways that particular dominant discourses structure our experience of the world with others. - William Bennett, In Sublimity’s Wake

William Bennett comparatively assesses Deleuze’s and Lyotard’s post-Kantian thought on the sublime in our new issue. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

ASA Recognizes 2025 Award Winners - American Society For Aesthetics The ASA is delighted to announce award winners for 2025!

ASA announces award 2025 winners. aesthetics-online.org/news/705730/... @amersocaesthetics.bsky.social #philsky

Volume 65 Issue 2 | The British Journal of Aesthetics | Oxford Academic The official journal of the British Society of Aesthetics. Publishes papers to promote the study and discussion of philosophical questions about aesthetic experience and the arts.

Excluding reviews, our new issue is 66.6...% open access...

...and 100% awesome.*

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*not legally binding.

[O]n the one hand, by far the longest-standing theories of beauty construed it as partly objective and dependent on form; on the other hand, many of late think that there is little we can say about what makes objects beautiful, other than that they please us. - Panos Paris, On Beauty and Wellformedness

In our new issue, Panos Paris argues for an account on which one of three types of wellformedness are necessary for the instantiation of beauty. Open access, people, open access. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Volume 65 Issue 2 | The British Journal of Aesthetics | Oxford Academic The official journal of the British Society of Aesthetics. Publishes papers to promote the study and discussion of philosophical questions about aesthetic experience and the arts.

Excluding reviews, our new issue is 66.6...% open access...

...and 100% awesome.*

academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky

*not legally binding.

[O]n the one hand, by far the longest-standing theories of beauty construed it as partly objective and dependent on form; on the other hand, many of late think that there is little we can say about what makes objects beautiful, other than that they please us. - Panos Paris, On Beauty and Wellformedness

In our new issue, Panos Paris argues for an account on which one of three types of wellformedness are necessary for the instantiation of beauty. Open access, people, open access. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

[M]y claim here is not that the moral disvalue of Triumph of the Will or #nyc does not contribute to or detract from their artistic value. My claim is just that it is not trivially true […]. Figuring out whether this is true or not requires careful examination and debate, including the debate as to what this contributing or detracting relation amounts to. - Moonyoung Song, The Qua Problem in the Value Interaction Debate

Moonyoung Song looks into whether an artwork's ethical value ever determines its aesthetic value and what sort of relation has to obtain to make such a value interaction interesting. Open access in our brand new issue 🔓. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

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Open access, BTW.

[M]y claim here is not that the moral disvalue of Triumph of the Will or #nyc does not contribute to or detract from their artistic value. My claim is just that it is not trivially true […]. Figuring out whether this is true or not requires careful examination and debate, including the debate as to what this contributing or detracting relation amounts to. - Moonyoung Song, The Qua Problem in the Value Interaction Debate

Moonyoung Song looks into whether an artwork's ethical value ever determines its aesthetic value and what sort of relation has to obtain to make such a value interaction interesting. Open access in our brand new issue 🔓. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

The appeal of the grotesque can be explained in reference to the abundance of meaning, originality, and novelty produced by the exaggerated freedom of the imagination: despite their displeasing and ugly forms, grotesque things can be and often are perceived as profound, fascinating, and thought-provoking. - Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues, The Offences of the Imagination: The Grotesque in Kant’s Aesthetics

Kant says ‘the English taste in gardens or the baroque taste in furniture pushes the freedom of the imagination almost to the point of the grotesque’. What does he mean by that? Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues tackles just this question in our brand new issue. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky