BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T001316Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20120420T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20120421T230000 SUMMARY:Psychology\, Emotion\, and the Human Sciences UID:20240329T001316Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Windsor\, Canada DESCRIPTION:
In Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions (Cambridge\, 1999)\, Jon Elster argues that "with an important subset of \nthe emotions (for example\, regret\, relief\, envy\, malice\, pity\, \nindignation\, ...) we can learn more from moralists\,\n novelists\, and playwrights than from the cumulative findings of \nscientific psychology."  \;Elster then explores the work of both ancient \nand early modern moral philosophers in order to substantiate his \nargument.  \;
\nThis symposium will explore Elster's assertions: what \ncan contemporary 'scientific psychology\,' barely 150 years old\, teach us\n about the emotions that early modern literary and philosophical inquiry\n cannot? Does psychology [of various sorts]\n deserve its status as the discipline of feeling? What can contemporary\n philosophical work teach us about feeling and emotion? Are there viable\n ways of bringing historical and contemporary emotional inquiry into \ncontact?  \;What insight can various forms of\n inquiry bring to the increasingly prominent issue of affective \neducation (the education of emotions\, dispositions\, and values)?  \;What \nis the status of emotional inquiry across disciplines?
\nFor more information\, contact Stephen Pender\, spender@uwindsor.ca.
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