PJA Spring, April 2010

The British Society of Aesthetics’ Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/pja.aspx

The PJA invites contributions from postgraduate students for its
Spring/April 2010 issue (vol. 7 no. 1).

Submissions may be on any topic in aesthetics and the philosophy art.
The PJA welcomes papers from diverse perspectives (including analytic,
continental and historical ones). Submissions should be accessible,
concise and have recognisably philosophical content. They should be
roughly 3,000 words in length, but not longer than 3,500. On issues of
formatting (referencing style, etc.) authors should consult the
current issue of the journal at:
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/pjacurrent.aspx.

Papers should be submitted by April 1st 2010 in Rich Text Format
(.rtf) via email to pgjeditor@british-aesthetics.org with ‘PJA
submission’ in the subject line.

Submissions will be refereed blind by a member of the editorial board,
comprised of Dr. Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Dr. Alex Neill (Southampton),
Dr. Ben Saunders (Oxford) and Dr. Kathleen Stock (Sussex).

The PJA is pleased to announce that this issue will feature an invited
contribution, “Aesthetic Relativism”, by Dr. Derek Matravers
(Cambridge/OU).

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The PJA has a wide readership and has published papers by graduate
students from all over the world, including ones from the universities
of Manchester, New School, Toronto, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Boston, Oxford,
Southampton, Helsinki, St. Andrews, McGill and Cape Town, to name but
a few. Recently published papers have tackled a wide range of issues
including: the paradox of fiction, aesthetics of nature,
Schopenhauer’s aesthetics, definitions of art, architecture, the
ontological status of stories, realism and metaphor, problems of
sentimental art, musical experience, gaining knowledge from
literature, and photographs as perceptual prostheses.

Past contributors of invited articles include: Peter Goldie, Kathleen
Stock, Robert Hopkins, Peter Lamarque, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer
Robinson, Stephen Davies, Gregory Currie, Emily Brady, David Davies,
Michael Morris and Dawn Phillips.

For more information, please visit: http://www.british-aesthetics.org/pja.aspx