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PLACING ART AND MUSIC IN NATURE: KNEW 2015
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August, 10th to 14th, 2015
Extended deadline for submissions: July 15!
Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of these phenomena. Individual studies, such as attempts to explain aesthetic responses in terms of some aspect of human neurology, have at times been deemed reductionist. Quite apart from such ‘accusations’ often being wholehearted accepted by researchers, the overall picture of art that science is revealing is anything from simplistic. Instead, research coming out of a variety of disciplines is presenting philosophy with ever new challenges if it is to provide anything like an integrated understanding of art and music. Thus, among others, ecological approaches provide a novel perspective upon meaning in music, embodied approaches explore the role of the specific played by the body in experiencing music and evolutionary approaches examine the significance of human evolutionary history for art and music. (…)
Invited Key-speakers
Ian Cross (University of Cambridge)
Ellen Dissanayake (University of Washington)
Piotr Przybysz (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Sample Questions
- To what extent recent neuroscientific findings explain the nature of our interactions with art and music?
- How can we relate empirical data from empirical musicology to evolutionary theories of music?
- What is the role of computational modelling of music cognition in our understanding of music (in evolutionary context)?
- To what degree can current neuroaesthetics explain the meaning of art and aesthetic pleasure?
- In what ways current naturalistic philosophy of science can inform recent debates on art and music?
Call for Papers
300 word abstracts are invited no later than July 15th (extended deadline). Accepted speakers will have 40 minutes for their presentations, including discussion time. Preference will be given to presentations directly connected to the work carried out by the key speakers. Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair.