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2022 in Tallinn
The ESA Conference 2022 is to be held on 28–30 June 2022 at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The keynote speakers are Emmanuel Alloa, Jacques Rancière, and Virve Sarapik.
Call for Abstracts 2022
The European Society for Aesthetics invites you to submit an abstract of a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference. You can submit panel proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2022.
Essay Prize Competition
Submit your paper to the ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers. The prize was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics.
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Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize: The Latest Winner

The 2025 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize was awarded to Artur Harris (University of Oxford) for his essay titled: “Aesthetic properties are not kinds of aesthetic value”. His essay addresses a question of foundational importance in philosophical aesthetics, namely, the relationship between aesthetic properties and aesthetic value. In the essay, Harris develops, in admirably clear and concise prose, novel arguments against a view that is both widely supported and comes with a high level of intuitive plausibility. In doing so, he not only demonstrates confidence and originality, but also, in the way that much good philosophy does, effectively draws the reader in to puzzle over what they may otherwise have easily taken for granted

The prize consists of a stipend of 500€ and the winning essay will be considered for publication in the journal Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. The essay, invited comments, and author’s replies will be presented in the essay prize panel during the ESA conference in Athens in June 2025.

The ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics. Its former winners include Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues (2024), David Collins (2023), Alex Fisher (2022), Nemesio García-Carril Puy (2021), Jeremy Page (2020), Irene Martínez Marín (2019), Mark Windsor (2018), and Servaas van der Berg (2017).

The European Society for Aesthetics was founded in 2008 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where it has been based ever since

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