The first Einstein Workshop was planned as a first meeting for the fellows with each of them giving a presentation about their work related to the workshop's core topics, aesthetics and
morality.
Monday
15:30 Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen): On the Possibility of Empirical Aesthetics
16:30 Joerg Fingerhut (Berlin): Levels of Engagement with Works of Art
19:30 Jesse Prinz (New York): Is Art an Evolutionary Adaptation or a Recent Invention?
Introduction by Horst Bredekamp & Michael Pauen
Tuesday
10:30 Martin Troendle (Friedrichshafen): Affordances in the Museum Environment
11:30 Ana Tajadura-Jiménez (London): TBA
13:30 Helmut Leder (Vienna): Nature of the Aesthetic Experience: Theory and Data
15:00 Bence Nanay (Antwerp): Aesthetic Attention and Aesthetic Imagery
16:00 Eva Weber-Guskar (Berlin): Awe as an Aesthetic Emotion in the Experience of Contemporary Art
17:30 Art Event & Guided Tour: Boros Bunker (1.5h)
Wednesday
09:30 Maureen Sie (Rotterdam): Moral Hypocrisy, Affect and the Mechanisms of our Conscience
11:00 Lara Pourabdolrahim (Berlin): The Doctrine of Double-Effect in Theory and Practice
12:00 Katharina Anna Helming (Trier): Sleeping With the Enemy: Moral Identity and Social Distance
14:30 Art Event and Discussion with Tino Sehgal (Martin Gropius
Bau)