The two-day workshop „Art & The City: New Cultural Maps“ explores intuitions, approaches, views and actions from different perspectives and cultures, facing questions and dilemmas related to heritage management and governance in multi-cultural urban and metropolitan frameworks.
The discussion will focus upon the radical change affecting society and the economy, and transforming the cultural paradigm from a competitive and dimensional struggle into a participative and synergic challenge, with new needs to cross-fertilise tradition and innovation.
Economists, urbanists, jurists, architects, philosophers and artists will perform an intensive and nonprejudicial exchange aimed at crafting sharp questions and drawing credible trails to our future, in the awareness of the growing importance of art and culture in social dynamics.
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Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the relationship between color and physical reality.
Chirimuuta offers an overview of philosophy’s approach to the problem of color, finds the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the assumptions that have shaped contemporary philosophy of color. She then reviews recent work in perceptual science that challenges philosophers’ accounts of color experience. Finally, she offers a pragmatic alternative whereby perceptual states are understood primarily as action-guiding interactions between a perceiver and the environment. The fact that perceptual states are shaped in idiosyncratic ways by the needs and interests of the perceiver does not render the states illusory. Colors are perceiver-dependent properties, and yet our awareness of them does not mislead us about the world. Colors force us to reconsider what we mean by accurately presenting external reality, and, as this book demonstrates, thinking about color has important consequences for the philosophy of perception and, more generally, for the philosophy of mind.
About the Author
M. Chirimuuta is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Philosophical interest in design and design research is increasing in both philosophy and design research, offering the possibility of the emergence of the new scholarly field of philosophy of design. The first steps towards this possibility have been made by work by individual authors and with volumes containing reflective research on design. With thisnew edited volume we plan to make a further step by bringing together essays that survey philosophy of design either through research papers on specific topics or by explorations of issues this field could or should take up.
Given the past naturalistic and empirical turns in philosophy, outcomes and practices in design research can immediate inform philosophy of design, and philosophy heritage can strongly fertilize design practices and design research models. For facilitating this process, the volume is planned to also include essays co-authored by design researchers and philosophers.
All topics in the large range of design disciplines are welcome, e.g., topics in the applied arts, industrial design, engineering design and all new types of design practices (ecodesign, user-centered design, interaction design, UX design, service design, design thinking, social design…).
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We therefore solicit: • proposals for research papers on topics within philosophy of design • candidates from design research and philosophy for co-authoring papers Responses to the call for co-authoring will be used to create and propose matching pairs of design researchers and philosophers for co-authoring contributions to the volumes.
Topics for papers could be but are not restricted to: • phenomenology of design: the use of hermeneutics in design processes and in design projects considered as lived experiences • epistemology of design: the specificity of design research as compared to scientific research or considered as a new kind of scientific research • ethics of design and responsible innovation • design knowledge and ‘designerly ways of knowing’ • esthetics of/in design • modelling and mapping design processes • validation of design research
Important dates: • June 2015, 1st: abstracts (500 words) • December 2015, 1st: full papers (between 6000 and 12000 words) • February 2016, 1st: decisions and feedback to authors • March 2016, 1st: revised papers • April 2016, 1st: submission to reviewers • June 2016, 1st : reviewers feedback • July 2016, 1st: final revised papers • September 2016: release
Abstracts must be sent to: • Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology, p.e.vermaas@tudelft.nl • Stéphane Vial, University of Nîmes / Sorbonne Paris 1 University, stephane.vial@unimes.fr http://british-aesthetics.org/cfp-philosophy-of-design-an-exploration/
„Naturbilder/Images of Nature“ examines the role of nature in art history and in the history of images, with a particular emphasis on Early Modern Europe. Central to this are the structural traits of the ‘natural’ and their imitation, emulation, and transformation into the arts, e.g. enlivenment, force, form, expression, or even quality.
What are the roles of pictures and diagrams in mathematical proofs, in formal reasoning, and in epistemic justification more broadly?
Can pictures by themselves serve as rigorous argumentation insofar as they can be persuasive and even convey a sense of demonstrative certainty?
from Allan Marquand, “A Machine for Producing Syllogistic Variations” —In C. S. Peirce (ed.),Studies in Logic by Members of the John Hopkins University, 12–15. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1883.
For the most part, these questions have been discussed separately. We want to bring them together and take them in new directions. These are philosophical questions that are addressed by many different disciplines: STS, history of science, mathematics, engineering, media studies, and the visual arts. They draw attention to technologies of picturing, the contexts of practice in which proofs and procedures of formal reasoning are employed, and problems and methods of teaching and communication.
We invite submissions on any aspect of the relation between pictures and proofs, and especially in these three thematic areas:
The role of pictures in logical or mathematical reasoning: What is the role of diagrams as objects of reasoning or as parts of the language of reasoning?
Compelling imagery and the power of visual evidence: Do pictures afford evidence and certainty such that they can serve as proofs?
Handling proofs and putting them to work: How have mechanical models, graphic procedures, visual and haptic manipulation contributed to mathematical reasoning in a wide variety of disciplines and applications?
