The next annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics is taking place on 16-18 June 2025 in Athens, Greece.
The conference is co-organised by the ESA and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The conference will be in person only.
Conference fee is €50 for students and unwaged, and €100 for academics.
The confirmed keynote speakers are:
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will take place in the lecture rooms of the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (https://www.philosophy.uoa.gr/). The lecture rooms are located in the building of the School of Philosophy, shown on this map (red pin).
ACCOMMODATION
The areas which are relatively close to the location of the conference are Kaisariani, Zografou, Ilisia and Pagrati.
You can find a place to stay via https://www.airbnb.gr or https://www.booking.com/
Hotels at the area of Evangelismos would be convenient for transportation to the conference venue by bus. For example:
If you wish to stay somewhere close to the city center, we suggest the area around Syntagma, Kolonaki and Exarchia, with relatively easy transportation to the conference area.
CONFERENCE DINNER – June 17, Tuesday
Kapodistriako Restaurant at the center of Athens, here
TRAVEL INFORMATION
We recommend to visit these sites:
Getting from the Airport to the center of Athens
There is a metro station at the airport (blue line) and it can take you to Athen’s center (ticket costs 9 euros and the trip is approx. 35 min). https://www.airport-athens.com/metro.php
You can also take a taxi from the airport (this shouldn’t cost more than 40 euros during the day).
Getting from the center of Athens to the School of Philosophy
1. Bus no. 608
The 608 bus stops at Academia (near the Panepistimio metro station on Line 2), at the Kipos bus stop (near Syntagma) or at the Evangelismos bus stop in the centre. Get off at the last stop, Nekrotafio Zografou. A short walk takes you to the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. See the two maps below for the route.
Map 1: From Syntagma Square to the Campus Entrance from the final bus stop at Nekrotafio Zografou
Map 2: From Panepistimio metro station to the Campus Entrance from the final bus stop at Nekrotafio Zografou
2. Bus no. 235
The 235 bus stops at the Akademia bus stop, near the Panepistimio metro station on Line 2), at the Kipos bus stop (near Syntagma Square) and at the Evangelismos bus stop in the centre of Athens. Get off at the last stop, Zografou. A short walk takes you to the School of Philosophy. See the map below for the route.
Map 3: From Panepistimio metro station to the School of Philosophy main entrance
3. Bus no. 230
The 230 bus stops at the Acropolis bus stop, near the Acropolis Museum in the city center. Get off at the stop 10 Zografou or at the last stop. A short walk takes you to the School of Philosophy of. See the map below for the route.
Map 4: From the Acropolis bus stop to the bus stop at Zografou at the campus entrance
4. Buses no. 220, 221
Buses 220 and 221 stop at the bus stop at Akadimia (near the Panepistimio metro station on Line 2). Get off at the last stop, Nekrotafio Zografou. A short walk takes you to the School of Philosophy. See the map below for the route.
Map 5: From the bus stop at Akadimia (near the Panepistimio metro station) to the main entrance of the School of Philosophy
Keynote speakers
Alva Noë: Enacting Value
Stacie Friend: Fact, Fiction and Understanding
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Bence Nanay: Aesthetic Experience as Achievement
David Davies: Explananda for an Ontology of Multiple Artworks
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Transformative Aesthetics
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Hanne Appelqvist: What Can Mere Musical Form Show Us about Reality?
Ruth Sonderegger: Emancipation, normalization, or coercion? Aesthetic education from Kant to Spivak
Lydia Goehr: Painting in Waiting: Prelude to a Critical Philosophy of History and Art
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Giovanni Matteucci: The (Aesthetic) Extended Mind: From Experience-of to Experience-with
Robert Hopkins: The Sculpted Image
Catrin Misselhorn: Conceptual Knowledge in Literature
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Hagi Kenaan: Photography: The Visual as an Existential
Dominique Chateau: Art, otherwise than art
Eileen John: Artistic Differences: Disliking and Disagreeing about Art
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Lev Kreft: Dandy Socialism
Christoph Menke: The Paradox of Ability and the Value of Beauty
Elisabeth Schellekens: What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects?
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Paul Crowther: The Need for Art: Substantial Freedom and the Aesthetics of Self-Consciousness
Carole Talon-Hugon: Artialisation of Emotions
Francisca Perez Carreño: Keep reading. Aesthetic experience and literary interpretation
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Martin Seel: Active Passivity: On the Aesthetic Variant of Freedom
Berys Gaut: Culture and Creativity
Maarten Doorman: The Romantic Order and the Unabatable Belief in Autonomy
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Tomáš Hlobil: 250 Years of Aesthetics at Prague University: How the History of the Teaching of Aesthetics Has Evaded Its Historians
Paolo D’Angelo: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Experience
Maria Elisabeth Reicher- Marek: Actual meaning objectivism
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Krystyna Wilkoszewska: Transcultural Studies in Aesthetics: The Ups and Downs
Noël Carroll: The Creative Audience: Some Ways in which Readers, Viewers, and/or Listeners Use their Imaginations to Engage Fictional Artworks
Mário Jorge de Carvalho: A Further Point of View on Points of View
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Roger Pouivet: Modal Aesthetics
Josef Füchtl: Produced and Nevertheless True: On Heroes, Stars, and an Aesthetics of Presence
Christel Fricke: Aesthetic Ways of Worldmaking
Gerard Vilar: Some Paradoxes of De-Artification and Rancière’s Art Philosophy
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Sergio Givone: About a narrative way of thinking
Lambert Wiesing: Pause of participation. On the function of artificial presence
John Hyman: Is resemblance a relation?
Thierry de Duve: On negativity in Kant’s Third Critique
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