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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T080000
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SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Tennessee Value and Agency Conference: Pleasure and Pain
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LOCATION:Knoxville\, United States\, 37996
DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstracts of 300-500 words\, prepared for blind review\, are due by June 1\, 2016 to this email address: utk.tva.2016@gmail.com.&nbsp\; Any questions may be directed to Clerk Shaw (jshaw15@utk.edu).</p>\n<p>The organizers of this year's TVA invite abstracts for papers on pleasure and pain\, broadly construed to include positive and negative affect in general.&nbsp\; We seek submissions across a maximally wide range of topics\, including but not limited to:</p>\n<p><u>the nature of pleasure\, pain\, emotion\, and mood&nbsp\;</u></p>\n<p>Do these have an intentional structure?&nbsp\; How do they relate to brain states and bodily states more generally?&nbsp\; Can animals experience emotions and moods?&nbsp\; Can social groups?&nbsp\; To what extent are these experiences conditioned by upbringing and belief\, and to what extent are they invariant across time and cultural context?</p>\n<p><u>the ethical significance of pleasure\, pain\, emotion\, and mood</u></p>\n<p>How do these influence our beliefs about what is good and bad\, right and wrong?&nbsp\; Should they influence those beliefs?&nbsp\; Might they even constitute our ethical beliefs?&nbsp\; Can emotions come into conflict with ethical beliefs\, and if so\, does that reflect on one's character?&nbsp\; How do these states influence our actions\, especially our morally significant actions?</p>\n<p><u>the aesthetic significance of pleasure\, pain\, emotion\, and mood</u></p>\n<p>Why do we respond affectively to art?&nbsp\; Is art's ability to provoke an affective response relevant to its quality\, and if so how?&nbsp\; Why do we often enjoy tragedy\, horror\, and other forms of painful art?</p>\n<p>We are open to submissions that address any period or figure in the history of philosophy\, work within any philosophical tradition (including non-Western philosophy)\, and employ any methodology (including empirically-informed and other interdisciplinary approaches).</p>\n<p>We aim to notify authors of selected abstracts by July 1\, 2016.</p>\n<p>We expect to be able to arrange onsite childcare\, and we invite those needing other accommodations to contact us.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jon Garthoff;CN=Kristina Gehrman;CN=Clerk Shaw:
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