Aesthetics Research Group - Archive
Audio, video and photos:
Kendall Walton and The Aesthetics of Photography and Film (2007)
- Photos from the Symposium
- Interview with Kendal Walton (pdf)
- Videos of all lectures (flash format)
Jerrold Levinson: Key Concepts in Aesthetics (2008-09)
- Photos from the lecture series
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Aesthetic' (mp3 - 1hr 36s)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Beauty' (mp3 - 1hr 14mins)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Art' (mp3 - 1hr 13s)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'The Artwork' (mp3 - 1 hr 12m
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artform' (mp3 - 1hr 14m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic form' (mp3 - 1hr 20m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic expression' (mp3 - 1hr 04m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Interpretation' (mp3 - 1 hr 25m)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson - 'Artistic Value' (mp3 - 1hr 28m)
Research Seminars (ongoing)
- Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Kinds of Multiples' (mp3 - 53mins 39secs)
- Audio - Howard Caygill: ‘Sun Pictures - Photography And The Astronomic Image’ (mp3 - 56mins 24secs)
- Audio - Noël Carroll: ‘The Problem with Movie Stars’ (Introduction by Murray Smith) (mp3 - 57mins 09secs)
This paper is published in Scott Walden (ed.), Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, New York: Blackwell, 2008. - Audio - Andrew Kania: ‘The Death of the Narrator: Fiction and Narrative in Literature and Film’ (mp3 - 1hr 33 secs)
- Audio - Jerrold Levinson: 'Defending Hypothetical Intentionalism' (excerpt - mp3 - 19m 28s)
- Audio - Jennifer McMahon: 'Aesthetic Autonomy: the Expression of Freedom (a Pragmatist Reading of Adorno) (mp3 - 1hr 4min 39s)
- Audio - Aaron Meskin: 'Authenticity in the Hybrid and Digital Arts' (mp3 - 50m 35s)
Art, Aesthetics and the Sexual (2009)
- Photos from the conference
- Video - Cain Todd (University of Lancaster): ‘Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire: the aesthetic and the pornographic attitude’
Respondent: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland) - Video - Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex): ‘What Pornography Can Tell Us About Imaginative Responses to Fiction’
Respondent: Murray Smith (University of Kent) - Video - David Davies (McGill University): ‘Is Pornography in the (Intended) Eye of the Beholder?’
Respondent: Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University) - Audio - Rob van Gerwen: ‘How to do Things with Pictures: Pornography and Real Sexuality’ (mp3 52m 40s)
Response by Ted Nannicelli (mp3 19m 53s) - Audio - Susan Dwyer: ‘Docusex: Display and Desire in Internet Pornography’ (mp3 45m 40s)
Response by Elizabeth Cowie (mp3 19m 01s) - Audio - Alex Neill: ‘The Pornographic, the Erotic, and the Charming: remarks on a Schopenhauerian theme’ (mp3 45m 36s)
Response by Jerrold Levinson (mp3 12m 28s)