https://sites.google.com/site/aestheticsandtheembodiedmind/

The aim of this Summer School is to bring together and integrate the multiple and complementary ways of investigating, analyzing and discussing the refutation of the Cartesian mind-body dichotomy and its consequences for aesthetics beyond art theory.

It provides a unique opportunity for Master students, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and senior academic researchers to take part in a lively exhange of ideas within an international and interdisciplinary community of experts in aesthetics and the embodied mind thesis.

The School will present and discuss cutting-edge research that highlights the link of the following research fields to the embodied mind thesis in aesthetics:
pragmatist aesthetics
neuroaesthetics
phenomenological aesthetics
empirical study of literary aesthetics
experimental aesthetics
psychology of aesthetics
analytical aesthetics
computational aesthetics
robotics and aesthetics
HCI and aesthetics
Embodied emotions and aesthetics

Prospective participants are invited to send their abstract (max. 300 words), a short CV indicating their publications (where possible) and the main achievements, their affiliation and a motivation letter to the following address: aestheticsandtheembodiedmind1[at]gmail.com

Deadline for abstract submission: 15th December 2012