What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects? Protecting Cultural Heritage and Aesthetic Obligations

The lecture of Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala) will argue against the standard empiricist conception of aesthetic value. Focusing on non-perceptual objects of aesthetic appreciation, such as scientific demonstrations and philosophical analyses, opens up for a
revised understanding of the distinction between the aesthetic and the cognitive. On Schellekens’s account, aesthetic experience can be epistemically motivated without succumbing to the “conflation problem”.