Christopher Earley
@christopherearley.bsky.social
Philosopher – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and co-editor of Debates in Aesthetics – Researching why artists are so weird, why we let them be so weird, and what we can learn from them
Excited to be in Cardiff this week to present at the Welsh Aesthetics Forum. I'll be talking about how we can aesthetically appreciate our own epistemic agency, how artworks can help us do this, and how this might (or might not!) boost our cognitive powers. @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social #philsky
Chris Earley defends a collaborative account of an artwork's epistemic value in our brand new issue. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky
![[E]ven if Shakespeare could not intend to tell us anything specific about the 2016 election, he has tried and non-accidentally succeeded in providing us with prompts that can be applied to topics that, by their very nature, resonate widely in subjects far beyond those his plays address. In order to work out just what the magnitude of Shakespeare’s cognitive achievement is with respect to these themes, we have to test just how far this resonance goes, which involves exploring specific political subjects in the wider world.
- Christopher Earley, Co-Producing Art's Cognitive Value](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreibikdwiit5rjbj72ywxotdwtnvsegx4x5avz7tp764edjldn5er54)
This article has now been published! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... My paper argues that to learn from art, audiences often have to collaborate with artists and that responding to art in epistemically creative ways reveals what makes an artwork artistically valuable. #philsky #philosophy 🧵:
Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value
Abstract. After viewing a painting, reading a novel, or seeing a film, audiences often feel that they improve their cognitive standing on the world beyond
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Heading to @ox.ac.uk for the British Society of Aesthetics annual conference. I’ll be talking about how aesthetics can help us grasp the meaning (or meaninglessness) of our place in the history. @britaesthetics.bsky.social #philsky #philosophyofhistory #philosophy
📣 CFP – DEBATES IN AESTHETICS GENERAL ISSUE 📣 We are currently accepting articles (3,000-3,500 words) on any topic in philosophical aesthetics, proposals for interviews with people working in aesthetics (500 words), and book reviews (1,000-1,500) words. debatesinaesthetics.org/news/ #philsky
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The BSA's Postdoctoral Fellowship winner for this year is Tareeq Jalloh. Read his article from our October 2022 issue on the relationship between drill music and epistemic injustice. doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philpapers
New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky
Had a wonderful time in Barcelona presenting this paper co-authored with Hans Maes. It's the first part of a larger project we're working on in which we're trying to work out what philosophers can do to help artists create art. #philsky
In this advance article, Chris Earley defends the collaborative cognitive achievements that artworks make possible. #philsky doi.org/10.1093/aest...
![[W]hen an artist confronts us with a prompt that makes a decisive contribution to an audience’s ability to achieve insight in their shared project of enquiry, they are also due a share of credit for co-producing this cognitive achievement.
- Christopher Earley, Co-Producing Art’s Cognitive Value](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chsp27b6x6v5fyeqzazfpspx/bafkreicvpvmklwdiongicufr7yvgt35d4hs6kgrgdk6ullj3pmhkupl6om)
Happy to say that, as of September, I will be joining the University of Edinburgh as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. I will be investigating what social epistemology can tell us about art and what art can reveal about social epistemology. @leverhulme.ac.uk @schoolofppls.bsky.social #philsky
Great day of talks at the Crossroads between Arts and Politics conference at Università del Piedmonte Orientale. I presented some work on why the arts are great place to try out weird approaches to inquiry. It was weird and wild.
Kicking off here with a few recent pieces of writing. 🧐 First, an article forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics @britjaesth.bsky.social in which I argue that learning from art often takes the form of collaborative inquiry between artist and audience: philpapers.org/rec/EARCAC-7 #philsky
Christopher Earley, Co-Producing Art's Cognitive Value - PhilPapers
After viewing a painting, reading a novel, or seeing a film, audiences often feel that they improve their cognitive standing on the world beyond the canvas, page, or screen. To learn ...
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