conference - The International Association for Philosophy and ...

Matthew Coate (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA)
Belief, and Non-being
5 JUNE 2013 | WEDNESDAY MORNING
Aaron Krempa (Philosophy, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA)
Image-making and Poetic Visibility: Gadamerian Reflections on Plato’s Conception of Paideia
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[PS-03] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR11
HOSPITALITY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Organized by Ingrid Hoofd (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore,
SINGAPORE)
Introduced and Chaired by Jeremy Fernando (Philosophy and Literature, National University of
Singapore, SINGAPORE)
This session attempts to think the problem of hospitality—its tensions between structure,
authority, and openness—in relation to contemporary visual and cybernetic technologies. It will
focus especially on the ambiguities around the potential for the other’s emancipation through
representing or engaging with the other via such technologies.
Ingrid Hoofd (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE)
Feminist Media Representation, Or the Mechanization of Oppressive Hospitality
Sorelle Henricus (English, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE)
The Gift of Science: Truth as Fact Laid Bare
Margaret Tan (Information Studies, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE)
The Smart Apron and Feminist Politics: Performing the Hospitable
Joel Gn (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE)
The Code of Eros: Writing, Affect and the Dating Game
TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL
12:00-14:00
LUNCH
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TEMBUSU COLLEGE
14:00-17:00
ORGANIZED SESSIONS-I (x1)
GENERAL SESSIONS-IV (x1)
[OS-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-2
EASING OFF THE EASEL: PICTORIALITY AND PARADIGMS
OF PICTURING
Organized, Introduced, and Chaired by John Holbo (Philosophy, National University of Singapore,
SINGAPORE)
In contemporary philosophy, the study of pictures—pictoriality, depiction—is typically treated,
presumptively, as a branch of aesthetics. This is like making philosophy of language a branch of
aesthetics because Hamlet is written in English. The error is so obvious no one can be making it, in
a considered way. Nevertheless, to see what we can see, it seems worthwhile wrenching ourselves
out of this rut, even if it is only due to path dependence in modes and manners of framing the
topic. Pictures are tools—technology. What implications of this truistic thought are obscured by
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