Officers and Trustees of the ASA

President: Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
Vice President: Dom Lopes, University of British
Columbia
Secretary-Treasurer: Dabney Townsend
JAAC Editor: Susan Feagin, Temple University
Past President: Jenefer Robinson, University of
Cincinnati
Sondra Bacharach, Victoria University of Wellington
James Hamilton, Kansas State University
Jennifer Judkings, UCLA
Andrew Kania, Trinity University
James Shelley, Auburn University
Alex Neill, University of Southampton
Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex

2012 Program Committee
Rachel Zuckert, Chair , Northwestern Univ.
Saam Trivedi, Brooklyn College
Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary
Allen Carlson, University of Alberta
Jane Forsey, University of Winnipeg
Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn University
Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex
Chris Williams, University of Nevada-Reno
Dabney Townsend, ASA Secretary/Treasurer, (ex officio)

Local Arrangements
Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri-St.
Louis


The
American

Society
for

Aesthetics




St. Louis Waterfront

70
th
Annual
Meeting

October 24-27,
2012


The Millennium Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri


Support from Wiley/Blackwell Publishing
Registration


Wednesday
5:30-10:00,
Thursday and
Friday 8:30-4:30,
Marble Room







Book Display


Thursday and
Friday 8:30-4:30,
Saturday 8:30-
12:00
Chouteau
Room
Wednesday
October 24


Morning





Finance
Committee
Meeting
Wednesday 9-12
Board Room
Wednesday
October 24


Afternoon
and
Evening



Board of Trustees
Meetings, Board
Room
Wednesday 1:00-
5:30, Wednesday
6:00-8:30
(dinner)
Friday
11:45-1:00
(Lunch)



Opening
Reception
Wednesday
8:30-11:00
Meramac
Room
Thursday
October 25


Morning

Coffee Break
10:50-11:10










ST. LOUIS WEST

9:00-10:50

Colloquium: Schopenhauer’s

Aesthetics

Chair: Wiebke Deimling,
University of Pennsylvania

Speakers: Sandra Shapshay,
Indiana University,
Bloomington and Alex Neill,
University of Southampton,
“The Role of Transcendental
Freedom in Schopenhauer’s
Aesthetics”

Commentator: Jennifer Uleman,
Purchase College (SUNY)

Speaker: Guy Elgat,
Northwestern University,
“Nietzsche’s Critique of
Schopenhauer on the Value of
Aesthetics Experience”

Commentator: Andrew
Huddleston, Oxford University




LACLEDE


9:00-10-50

Colloquium: Music I
(Ontology)

Chair: Vladimir Konečni,
University of California, San
Diego

Speaker: Brock Rough,
University of Maryland,
“Defending Fundamentalist
Musical Ontology”

Commentator: Christopher
Bartel, Appalachian State
University

Speaker: Dan Burkett, Victoria
University of Wellington, “One
Song, Many Works: A Pluralist
Ontology of Rock”

Commentator: Alexey Aliyev,
University of Maryland







FIELD

9:00-10:50

Colloquium: Morality,
Literature, and the Emotions

Chair: Kevin Sweeney, University
of Tampa

Speaker: Michael Ducey,
University of Cincinnati,
“Responses to Fiction: Appeals to
Low-Level Reactions as Evidence
for Authenticity”

Commentator: Susan Feagin,
Temple University

Speaker: Katherine Tullmann,
Graduate Center (CUNY), “Do
we make real moral judgments
about fictions?”

Commentator: Darren Hick,
Susquehanna University
Thursday
October 25



Morning










ST. LOUIS WEST

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: German
Philosophical Aesthetics

Chair: John Carvalho, Villanova
University

Speaker: Robin James,
University of North Carolina,
Charlotte, “Ariadne from
Naxos?: Race, Gender, and
Aesthetic Receptivity in
Nietzsche and Beyond”

Commentator: Robert Gooding-

Williams, University of Chicago

Speaker: Ingvild Torsen, Florida
International University,
“Disinterest and Truth: On
Kant’s Place in Heidegger’s
History of Aesthetics”

Commentator: Katalin Makkai,
ECLA of Bard



LACLEDE

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: Music II
(Performance)

Chair: Peg Brand, University of
Oregon

Speaker: Alessandro Bertinetto,
University of Udine,
“Improvisational Listening?”

Commentator: David Clowney,
Rowan University


Speakers: Cynthia Grund,
University of Southern
Denmark, and William Westney,
Texas Tech University, “From
Music to Sport and Back Again:
A Continuum Hypothesis”

Commentator: Arnold Berleant,
Long Island University



FIELD

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: Morality and
Literature

Chair: Stephanie Patridge,
Otterbein University

Speaker: Eva Dadlez, University
of Central Oklahoma, “Literature,
Ethical Thought Experiments, and
Moral Knowledge”

Commentator: Sarah Worth,
Furman University


Speaker: Allison Hepola, Samford
University, “Fictional Realism: A
Threat to Literary Cognitivism”

Commentator: Scott Clifton,
University of Washingtoton







Thursday
October 25

Afternoon
Lunch
1:00-2:30



Plenary Session:
5:15-6:45 p.m.
Meramac Room
Arianna Quartet

Reception
7:00-8:30
Meramac Room


JAAC Editorial
Board Meeting
8:00
TBA



ST. LOUIS WEST

2:30-5:00

Panel: Art, Religion, and the
Sublime

Chair: Gordon Graham,
Princeton Theological Seminary

Speaker: Matthew Haltemann,
Calvin College, “Art, Religion,
and the Sublime”

Commentator: Anne Eaton,
University of Illinois at Chicago

Commentator: Lambert
Zuidevaart, Institute of Christian
Studies, Toronto





LACLEDE

2:30-5:00

Panel: Participatory Art

Chair: Gregg Horowitz, Pratt
Institute

Speaker: Tom Finkelpearl,
Queens Museum of Art, “The
Art of Participation”

Speaker: Michael Kelly,
University of North Carolina,
Charlotte, “Artistic Agency”

Speaker: Jonathan Neufeld,
College of Charleston,
“Aesthetic Disobedience”


FIELD

2:30-5:00

Panel: Thomas Leddy, The
Extraordinary in the Ordinary:

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Chair: Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island
School of Design

Critic: Donald Keefer, Rhode
Island School of Design

Critic: Ronald Moore, University
of Washington

Critic: Glenn Parsons, Ryerson
University

Author: Thomas Leddy, San Jose
State University

Friday
October 26


ST. LOUIS WEST

9:00-10:50

LACLEDE

9:00-10:50
FIELD


9:00-10:50



Morning


2013 Program
Committee
Meeting
8:00
(breakfast)

Coffee Break
10:50-11:10



Colloquium: Hegel’s
Aesthetics

Chair: C. Allen Speight, Boston
University

Speaker: Martin Donougho,
University of South Carolina at
Columbia, “Hegelian Comedy”

Commentator: Mark Alznauer,
Northwestern University


Speaker: Stephan Hammel,
University of Pennsylvania,
“Religion, Art, and the
Knowing of Forgiveness: Hegel
on Failure and Love

Commentator: Jason Miller,
Rice University
Colloquium: Aesthetics and
Comparison

Chair: Carol S. Gould, Florida
Atlantic University

Speaker: Henry Pratt, Marist
College, “Uniqueness,
Incomparability, and the Primary
Aspect of Art”

Commentator: Brian Soucek,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit

Speaker: Christy Mag Uidhir,
University of Houston,
“Aesthetic Properties and
Gradability”

Commentator: Robert Stecker,

Central Michigan University
Colloquium: Philosophy of
Literature

Chair: David Goldblatt, Denison
University

Speaker: David Davies, McGill
University, “Fictional Utterance,
Fictional Narratives, and Fictional
Works”

Commentator: John Gibson,
University of Louisville

Speaker: Derek Matravers, Open
University, “Style and Substance”

Commentator: Ira Newman,
Mansfield University
Friday
October 26


Morning

Coffee Break
10:50-11:10








ST. LOUIS WEST

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: Danto’s
Philosophy of Art

Chair: Lydia Goehr, Columbia
University

Speaker: Georg Bertram, Free
University of Berlin,
“Experience or Reflection? The
Question of Modern Art”

Commentator: Jonathan
Gilmore, Columbia University

Speaker: Sonia Sedivy,
University of Toronto, “The
End of Art and the Loss of
Beauty: A Shared Premise”

Commentator: Stephen Snyder,
Fatih University







LACLEDE

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: Aura,
Authenticity, and Artistic
Reproduction

Chair: Ivan Gaskell, Bard
Graduate Center

Speaker: Nick Stang, University
of Miami, “Artistic Aura and
Artistic Value”

Commentator: Louise Hanson,
Oxford University

Speaker: Dobin Choi, University
at Buffalo (SUNY), “The
Minimal Condition of
Authenticity”

Commentator: Elizabeth

Scarbrough, University of
Washington








FIELD

11:10-1:00

Colloquium: Art and Suffering

Chair: Nickolas Pappas, City
College of New York

Speaker: Anna Christina Ribeiro,
Texas Tech University, “The
Enjoyment of Sad Poetry”

Commentator: Richard Eldridge,
Swarthmore College

Speaker: Aaron Smuts, Rhode
Island College, “Merely Fictional
Suffering”


Commentator: Sheila Lintott,
Bucknell University
Friday
October 26

ST. LOUIS WEST

2:30-5:00
LACLEDE

2:30-5:00
FIELD

2:30-5:00
Afternoon


Lunch
1:00-2:30



Trustees Lunch
Board Room



Presidential
Address


5:30-6:30
Meramac Room
Paul Guyer
“Separatism and
Syncretism in the
History of
Aesthetics”


Presidential
Reception

7:00-8:30
Meramac
Room

Panel: Expression:Historical
and Contemporary
Perspectives

Chair: Christopher Williams,
University of Nevada, Reno

Speaker: Laurent Jaffro,
University of Paris,
“Expression in Shaftesbury”

Speaker: Timothy Costelloe,
College of William and Mary,
“Fry, Collingwood, and the

Aesthetic Imagination”

Speaker: Robert Hopkins,
University of Sheffield and
New York University,
"Expression As Bringing To
Consciousness"

Panel: Dance and
Performance: Exploring
Embodiment

Chair: Karen Gover, Bennington
College

Speaker: Aili Bresnahan,
University of Dayton,
"Improvisational Artistry and
Style in Live Dance Performance
as Evidence of Embodied and
Extended Mind"

Speaker: James R. Hamilton,
Kansas State University, “Does
Understanding Live Performance
Require Appeal to Theories of
Embodied Cognition?”

Speaker: Kristin Boyce, Johns
Hopkins University, “Thought in

Dance from an Anscombian
Perspective”

Commentator: Renee Conroy,
Purdue University at Calumet

Panel: Peter Goldie, The Mess
Inside
In Memoriam

Chair: Kathleen Stock, University
of Sussex

Speaker: Jesse Prinz, City
University of New York

Speaker: Edward Harcourt,
Oxford University

Speaker: Lisa Jones, University of
St. Andrews
Saturday
October 27

Morning

Coffee Break
10:50-11:10











ST. LOUIS WEST

9:00 – 10:50

Colloquium: Issues in the
Contemporary Arts

Chair: Roger Shiner, UBC
Okanagan

Speaker: Sondra Bacharach and
Isobel Cairns, Victoria
University of Wellington, “Street
Art”

Commentator: Nola Semczyszyn,
Franklin and Marshall College

Speaker: Katherine Thomson-
Jones, Oberlin College, “How
Movies Move in the Digital Age”


Commentator: Angela Curran,
Carleton College


LACLEDE

9:00 – 10:50

Colloquium: Literary Genre
and History

Chair: Jon M. Mikkelsen,
Missouri Western State
University

Speaker: David Conter, Western
University, “Farce, History, and
the Ontology of Genre”

Commentator: Deborah Knight,
Queen's University

Speaker: Alex Robins, Emory
University, “The Priority of
History in Art: Wilhelm
Dilthey’s Rejection of Aristotle’s
Poetics”

Commentator: Timothy Gould,
Metropolitan State University



FIELD

9:00 – 10:50

Colloquium: Differences in
Aesthetic Judgment

Chair: Cynthia Freeland,
University of Houston

Speaker: Belinda Piercy,
University of Toronto, “Peer
Disagreement and Aesthetic
Claims”

Commentator: Brian Watkins,
Duke University

Speaker: Michael Rings, Indiana
University, Bloomington,
“Conversation, Appreciation, and
the Aesthetic Cosmopolitan
Project”

Commentator: Wojtek Chojna,
Urbana University

Saturday

October 27

Morning

Coffee Break
10:50-11:10














ST. LOUIS WEST

11:10 – 1:00

Colloquium: Visual and Plastic
Art

Chair: Kathleen Desmond,
University of Central Missouri


Speaker: Saul Fisher, Mercy
College, “Architectural Objects
as Abstracta: An Argument from
Models”

Commentator: Joseph Moore,
Amherst College

Speaker: John Brown, University
of Maryland, “The Allure of Free
Brushstrokes in Figurative
Painting: The Case of Frans
Hals”

Commentator: Rebecca Bensen
Cain, Oklahoma State University


LACLEDE

11:10 – 1:00

Colloquium: Music III
(Aesthetics)

Chair: Garry Hagberg, Bard
College

Speaker: Bryan Parkhurst,
University of Michigan, “Toward

an Expressivist Meta-Music-
Theory”

Commentator: Jennifer Judkins,
UCLA

Speaker: Tiger Roholt, Montclair
State University, “A
Methodological Distinction
between Analytic and
Continental Philosophy of
Music”

Commentator: Erum Naqvi,
Temple University


FIELD

11:10 – 1:00

Colloquium: Definitions of Art
or the Aesthetic

Chair: Curtis Carter, Marquette
University

Speaker: Annelies Monseré,
Ghent University, “Art and Its
Borderlines”


Commentator: Aaron Meskin,
University of Leeds

Speaker: Remei Capdevila-
Werning, Autonomous University
of Barcelona, “Reflective
Equilibrium in Aesthetics: A
Theoretical Ground for Nelson
Goodman’s Symptoms of the
Aesthetic”

Commentator: Nicholas Wong,
University of Chicago

Saturday
October 27

Afternoon





1:00-2:30
Business Meeting
(Open to all
members)
Illinois
Room

Lunch Included

Walking Tours
Saturday
Afternoon and
Sunday Morning





ST. LOUIS WEST

2:30-5:00

Panel: Classical Chinese
Aesthetic Thought

Chair: Mary Wiseman, Brooklyn
College and CUNY Graduate
Center

Speaker: James Harold, Mount
Holyoke College, “Taste and
Reason in Mengzi”

Speaker: Kathleen Higgins,
University of Texas at Austin,
“Musical Conservatism in
Ancient Confucianism”


Speaker: Eva Kit Wah Man,
Hong Kong Baptist University,
“The Meaning of an Author in
Liu Xie's Wenxindiaolong”

Commentator: P.J. Ivanhoe,
City University of Hong Kong


LACLEDE

2:30-5:00

Panel: Theodore Gracyk and
Andrew Kania (eds.), The
Routledge Companion to
Philosophy and Music

Chair: Saam Trivedi, Brooklyn
College, City University of New
York

Speakers:

Theodore Gracyk, Minnesota
State University, Moorhead,
and Andrew Kania, Trinity
University


Jeanette Bicknell, Independent
Scholar

Justin London, Carleton
College

Jerrold Levinson, University of
Maryland


FIELD

2:30-5:00

Panel: Aesthetic Cognitivism

Chair: Keren Gorodeisky,
Auburn University

Speaker: Carolyn Richardson,
College of the Holy Cross,
“Getting Metaphor”

Speaker: Eileen John, University
of Warwick, “Failures of
Argument and Literary Value”

Speaker: James Shelley, Auburn
University, “What You Should
Know”