INTERNATIONALWORKSHOP

Epistemologyofaesthetics:facts,modelsandtheories

20thOctober2016,9:30-18:30

IMéRA,Aix-MarseilleUniversity2placeLeVerrier–Marseille

ENTRÉELIBREDOCTORANTS:InscriptionsurlesiteduCollègedoctoralAMU–ADUM

OrganizedbyLorenzoBartalesi(IMéRAFellow2015-2016;MarieCurieFellow-EHESS)IncollaborationwithCEPERC-Centred’Epistémologieetd’ErgologieComparatives(UMR7304)

Aestheticknowledgeisafundamentaldimensionofthehumancultureandithasbeencrucialinthe development of a scientific understanding of the natural world. However, a study of theanthropological meaning of aesthetic behaviours faces currently with countless problems.Philosophicalaestheticstraditionallyoscillatesbetweenatheoryofknowledgeandatheoryofart.Asaresult,allattemptsofconceptualframingofaestheticshavefailedandsofar,thereisn'tanaccepteddefinitionofaestheticbehaviour.Nevertheless,humanscienceslikearchaeology,socialanthropology,psychologyorneurobiologyadopttheaesthetictheoriesproposedintheoccidentalphilosophical tradition in order to analyse the complexity of the aesthetic dimension. This factcauses several conceptual andepistemologicalproblems for the scientific approach toaestheticdomain.Whatweneedisanepistemologyofaesthetics–atheoryofhowweknow(andwhatweknowabout)theworldthroughanaestheticexperience.Theaimoftheworkshopisanepistemologicalclarificationoftheaestheticsasamodeofknowledgeculturallydiversifiedandanchoredinourcognitive architecture: What is aesthetic knowledge? Which kind of epistemology for theaesthetic knowledge?What is the place of the knowledge through art?What lesson from thehistoricaltiebetweenaestheticandscientifictheorycanbeappliedtoday?

The topic could be developed through the main categories of epistemology: fact,model andtheory.Followingaresometopicswewouldliketoapproach:

Fact:Whatisanaestheticfact?Isitaperceptualfact?Canwespeakoftheaestheticfactsina descriptiveway?What does itmean that aesthetic is an intrinsically normative notion?Whatistheepistemicobjectofaesthetics?Model: Could we model aesthetic knowledge? Which kind of model should beimplemented?Anaestheticmodeldoesalwaysinvolveaformofreductionism?What’stherelationshipbetweenmodelandtheoryinaesthetics?Theory:Whichkindoftheoryforaestheticknowledge?Canwereduceaesthetictheorytoperceptual theory? What's the relationship between aesthetic theory and art criticism?Despite themodernsegregationofscientificandaestheticknowledge,couldepistemologyofsciencebeamodelforaesthetics?

Theconferencewillbesplit intwosessionsofthree45minutesspeeches, followedbyanopendiscussion.EnglishandFrenchwillbetheofficiallanguagesoftheconference.

PROGRAMME

09.30-09.45 OpeningoftheConference.Welcome.MorningSession–Chair:GabriellaCrocco(CEPERC,AMU/CNRS)

09.45-10.45 GiuseppeDiLiberti(CEPERC,AMU/CNRS)Lesfaitsesthétiquesentremonde,langageetperception.Problèmesdedéfinition

10.45 Coffeebreak

11.00-12.00 GregoryCurrie(UniversityofYork)Aestheticsforarchaeologists

12.00-13.00 FabrizioDesideri(UniversityofFirenze)

The aestheticmatrix of the cognitivity. First sketch of a new epistemicmodel foraesthetics

AfternoonSession–Chair:PierreLivet(CEPERC,AMU/CNRS)14.30-15.30 JérômeDokic(InstitutNicod,EHESSParis)

Lerôledesémotionsetsentimentsépistémiquesdansl'expérienceesthétique15.30-16.30 BenceNanay(AntwerpUniversity)

Mentalimageryandtop-downinfluencesontheperceptionofartworks16.30-16.45 Coffebreak16.45-17.45 Jean-MarieSchaeffer(CRAL,EHESSParis)

Somethoughtsaboutaestheticallyorientedexperiences