The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science, the Research Group for Moral and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, and the Hungarian Academy of Arts cordially invite you to their upcoming conference:

Art, Truth and Knowledge

Programme:

17. February:

10:00 - Conference opening (Tamás Kucsera, Andrew Huddleston, Ferenc Hörcher)

10:10 - 11:25 - Elisabeth Schellekens: On the Relation between Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Value

11:25 - 12:40 - James Grant: Understanding and Artistic Value

12:40 - 13:00 - Coffee Break

13:00 - 14:15 - Errol Lord: Learning about Morality through Art

14:15 - 15:30 - Lunch Break

15:30 - 16:45 - Ferenc Hörcher: How to Learn through Catharsis: Once again about the Cognitive Value of Poetry in Aristotle

16:45 - 18:00 - Vid Simoniti: Art and Minor Philosophical Genres

18. February:

11:15 - 12:30 - Stacie Friend: Learning from Stories

12:30 - 12:45 - Coffee Break

12:45 - 14:00 - Deodáth Zuh: Framing the Philosophy of Art History. Arnold Hauser's Take on the Cognitive Value of Art

14:00 - Closing Lunch

Date of the conference: 17-18th February, 2017.
Venue of the conference: Pesti Vigadó, 1051 Budapest V., Vigadó tér 2., 4th floor, Imre Sinkovits Chamber Theatre

Abstracts of the conference talks are available here.