(Apologies for cross-postings.)
Making Sense of Emotion: Philosophies of Art, Ethics and Mind
This is a final announcement for Southampton University's annual
postgraduate philosophy conference, which takes place this Saturday,
February 16th.
Simon Blackburn will begin proceedings with a talk entitled 'Hot
Judgements and Cold Emotions'.
The conference is free. For further details and to register in advance,
please visit www.soton.ac.uk/~philosop/latest.htm
A full programme of the conference follows:
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 PROFESSOR SIMON BLACKBURN (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
Hot Judgements Cold Emotions
Chair: Denis McManus
11.15 BREAK
11.30 FIRST PARALLEL SESSION
Russell Downham (Monash University)
Good Grief: Emotional Attachments and the Meaning of Life
Chair: David Pugmire
Lisa Hague (University of Reading)
Morality and Manners: Are Manners a Lesser Morality?
Chair: Alex Neill
Andrew McGonigal (University of Glasgow)
Metaphor and the Description of Emotion
Chair: Aaron Ridley
12.30 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS)
2.00 SECOND PARALLEL SESSION
Dorothea Debus (University of Oxford)
Emotional Memories
Chair: Geoff Eavy
Fran Speed (University of Lancaster)
Moral Perception: The Ethico-aesthetic Equation in
Environmental Philosophy
Chair: Pete McCarthy
Marina Tsoulou (University of Warwick)
Dance as Expression
Chair: Genia Schoenbaumsfeld
3.00 BREAK
3.15 THIRD PARALLEL SESSION
Elisa Hurley (University of Georgetown)
Apt Affect: Moral Concept Mastery and the Phenomenology
of Emotions
Chair: Graham Stevens
Tomoko Kinoshiro (University of Kent)
The Reliability of Motivation by Altruistic Emotion
Chair: Mike Smithurst
Havi Carel (University of Essex)
Ethics and Emotion: The Case of Heidegger and Freud
Chair: Lambert Stepanich
4.15 BREAK
4.30 FOURTH PARALLEL SESSION
Marek McGann (DBS School of Arts, Dublin)
Feeling of Purpose: Emotions, Goals and the Philosophy of Mind
Chair: Martin Ladbury
Michael Weinman (New School for Social Research, New York)
Doing Justice to Pleasure: Ethical Excellence and
the Impossibility of Simplicity
Chair: TBC
5.30 CLOSE
For further information, please contact:
Melenia Arouh: [log in to unmask] or
James Cuthbert: [log in to unmask]
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James Cuthbert
Department of Philosophy
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
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