Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be on Tuesday 17th February, when Professor Julian Dodd (Manchester) will give a talk entitled 'The ontology of conceptual art: against the *idea* idea'.
The talk will be held from 2.30-4.15pm, in the *Barbara White Room*, Newnham College (a map can be found here: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.newnham.local/uploads/files/About-Newnham/college_map_08.pdf). As always, attendees are welcome to join us for tea and coffee in the philosophy faculty after the talk. There is a small charge for attendance at a single meeting (£2 for students; £3 for faculty); alternatively, those wishing to become members of the club may purchase an annual subscription (for the remainder of this academic year) for £7.50 (students) or £15 (faculty). We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Abstract: In their book, *Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?, *Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens elaborate and defend what they call 'the *idea *idea': a view most succinctly formulated as the thesis that conceptual artworks are ideas. In this talk I'll criticise the *idea* idea. I claim that it is under-motivated, subject to convincing criticism and, in its assumption that all conceptual artworks fall into the same ontological category, methodologically suspect. We should disentangle the many insightful things that Goldie and Schellekens say about our appreciation of conceptual art from the thesis they present as a corollary of these insights. -- Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
