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Interdisciplinary Conventions: Literature and Philosophy

Session 7 - Sunday 1:00-2:30pm
Henry Hall 102
Presiding Officer: 
Jonathan Lee
  1. Metacritical Ethics. Matthew Sussman, Harvard University

    This paper argues that literary critics should engage with metaethical views about the nature of moral language to gain insight into what is "ethical" about "ethical criticism," especially by adopting a virtue-theoretic approach that emphasizes the centrality of "character" in literary judgment.

  2. lines on water. Jeffner Allen, Binghamton University, SUNY

    Touching lightly, rather than delimit or expel, “lines on water” performs transdisciplinary narratives. Neither one tale nor two, a wriggling entanglement, the floating lines dive through conversations ‘about’ disciplines to drift among the coral reefs’ sensual, conceptual contours.

  3. Thinking Philosophy through Poetry. Brenda Machosky, University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu

    Since Plato, aesthetics has operated as a primarily philosophical doctrine that takes “art” as its object. I propose a way to think art and literature by means of the works of art themselves. Further, I suggest that the very philosophy that claims to “know” art is itself a work of art.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed