Workshop: Imagination, Expression, and Depiction

The main aim of the workshop is to present and discuss current and on-going research on issues surrounding the topic of how we experience pictures and their emotional expressiveness, and whether the imagination is involved in one way or another in this experience.

The meeting is meant to prepare the publication of a collection of essays with the intention to set a new standard of discussion in the field of philosophy concerned, parts of which - notably the issue of pictorial expression - have unfortunately been largely neglected in contemporary aesthetics.

The conference constitutes the final part of a SNF-funded research project based at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary Philosophy of Prof. Gianfranco Soldati at the University of Fribourg, which has investigated the relationship between our conscious experience and the normativity of values and, in particular, has dealt with the role of imagining in the appreciation of art.

Time & Place: 04. - 06.10.2007, Room xxxx

Speakers:
- Clotilde Calabi (Milano)
- David Harris (Glasgow)
- Robert Hopkins (Sheffield)
- Derek Matravers (Open University)
- Patrick Maynard (Western Ontario)
- Dominic McIver Lopes (British Columbia)
- Kathleen Stock (Sussex)
- Saam Trivedi (City University New York)
- Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg)