My review of Michel Chaouli’s book, Thinking with Kant’s Critique of Judgment is out! You can find it in the latest issue of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

 

KANT, NORMATIVITY AND RELIGION

The workshop will take place at Boğaziçi University, on Friday June 29th from 1pm until 6.30pm in JF507. Everyone is welcome.

Schedule:

1.00 – 2.15:    Martin Sticker (Dublin) “Kant on Beneficence”

2.15 – 3.30     Emine Hande Tuna (Brown) “Objective Purposiveness and Value”

4.00 – 5.15     Taylan Susam (Brown) “Upon this rock: Kant on the Churches Visible and Invisible”

5.15 – 6.30     Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent) “Kant on Miracles”

The conference is organised a part of the joint Boğaziçi -Southampton Newton-Katip Çelebi project “Agency and Autonomy: Kant and the Normative Foundations of Republican Self-Government”, run by Lucas Thorpe (Boğaziçi) and Andrew Stephenson (Southampton).

Talk by Hande Tuna at Bosphorus

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This week at the Junkyard: a post by Emine Hande Tuna

https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2018/2/11/imaginative-resistance-and-disgust

I will be giving a talk on imaginative resistance at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting in San Diego, on March 29, Thursday @ 5pm. In this paper, I criticize some of the recent trends in imaginative resistance research and put forward a positive account.

The phenomenon of imaginative resistance refers to the inability or unwillingness to engage with the particular imaginative activities prompted by works of fiction. For instance, suppose that Crime and Punishment were modified so that the narrator told us that Raskolnikov’s crime was the morally right thing to do. Even though we would then have no problem imagining the rest of the story as it is and accepting the author’s authority in telling us what is true in the story, there seems to be a problem imagining that Raskolnikov would be morally justified.

In the first part of my paper, I criticize some of the recent positions on imaginative resistance (Shen-yi Liao, Nina Strohminger, and Chandra Sekhar Sripada (2014) and Shen-yi Liao (forthcoming)), which I believe are contributing to the trend of straying away from the original promise of imaginative resistance research. But also, I want to acknowledge some of their strengths as well, particularly a compelling diagnosis they make (i.e. genre makes a difference). In the second part, I provide my own interpretation of the phenomenon and show that my interpretation also provides the theoretical framework to account for this compelling diagnosis. I argue that the reason why we find it almost impossible to engage in the imaginative activity prompted by a fictional work is grounded not only in moral disapprobation it creates but also in the emotion of disgust that mingles with and amplifies the disapprobation.

I will be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University between 2017 and 2019. My project, “Historical and contemporary approaches to imaginative resistance,” received $81,000 from Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the winning essay for the 2017 John Fisher Memorial Prize, an award for an original essay in aesthetics, created in memory of the late John Fisher, editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from 1973 to 1988.

The Prize is intended to foster the development of new talent in the field of aesthetics. The competition is limited to those persons who have completed the terminal degree in their field and are in the early stages of participation in their profession.

The winning essay is “Kant on Informed Pure Judgments of Taste,” by Emine Hande Tuna.   Dr. Tuna recently completed her doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Alberta. The amount of the Prize is $1,000, and the winning essay will be published in  The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. The author will also be invited to read the paper at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in November 2017.

The next Fisher Prize will be awarded in 2019, with a submission deadline of January 15, 2019. Complete guidelines are here: https://aesthetics-online.site-ym.com/?page=fisherprize

Source: Emine Hande Tuna Wins the John Fisher Prize – American Society For Aesthetics

The American Society for Aesthetics announced the winners of four prizes at the Business Meeting at the 74th Annual Meeting in Seattle:

MONOGRAPH PRIZE: Peter Kivy (Rutgers University) for his book, De Gustibus: Arguing about Taste and Why We Do It (Oxford University Press, 2015)

TED COHEN PRIZE: Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro (Texas Tech University) for her article, “The Spoken and the Written–An Ontology of Poems,” in The Philosophy of Poetry, John Gibson, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 127-148.

SELMA JEANNE COHEN PRIZE IN DANCE AESTHETICS: Chantal Frankenbach (CSU Sacramento) for her article, “Dancing the Redemption of French Literature: Riviere, Mallarme, and Le Sacre du Printemps,” Dance Chronicle 38:2 (2015), 134-160.

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER PRIZE: Emine Hande Tuna (University of Alberta): “Kantian Hybrid Theory of Art Criticism: A Particularist Appeal to the Generalists”

For information on prizes to be awarded in 2017, please see the ASA web site (News==>Grants and Prizes)

http://aesthetics-online.org/?page=grantsprizes

Source: ASA Announces Prize Winners at Annual Meeting – American Society For Aesthetics

My Kantian art criticism paper is out! If you want to read about the dependency relation between aesthetic assessments and nonaesthetic properties of objects, this is what you’ve been looking for your whole life. Here is the link.

I will be presenting my paper “Art as a Social Kind” in a Panel titled “Sex, Art, and Essentialism: New Perspectives on HPC Kinds” at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting in Calgary on May 27. My fellow presenters are Esther Rosario and Justin Bzovy.

Here is the abstract of my paper: It is hard to categorize art under either natural or social kinds because there are no necessary conditions for calling something art but only sufficient conditions and it is not at all clear whether these conditions are natural facts. is has been the main rationale for defending anti-essentialism. However, some attempts have been made to meet the challenge of anti-essentialism by construing art as a natural kind (Davies 2003, Gaut 2000, and Dutton 2009). Unfortunately, all these accounts fail to provide reasons as to why one should accept either of their open-ended lists of sufficient non-necessary properties for identifying something as art. Another more promising suggestion comes from Adajian (2012) who thinks that the right motivation can be found in adopting Boyd’s Homeostatic Property-Cluster theory. While I agree with Adajian’s desiderata for constructing a successful theory of art, I argue that these desiderata cannot be met even if we use HPC-kind theory because art is a social rather than natural kind. My claim is that, even though we cannot appeal to standard theories of social kinds, because they take social kinds to be mind-dependent and less real, a more naturalized theory of social kinds will serve the purpose. By applying this theory which is developed by Mason (2015) to the domain of art, I propose that social facts such as “x is an artwork” or “y is not an artwork” are not grounded in mental facts involving rules we accept, but instead grounded in behavioural and relational facts.