Suffering and Cognition
April 25, 2014
Institut Jean Nicod
Maison de la Recherche
Paris
France
Sponsor(s):
- Sciences, Normes, Désicion group, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- The Value of Suffering Project
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The Value of Suffering Project, in collaboration with the Institut Jean Nicod and the Sciences, Normes, Désicion group, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), is pleased to open registration for a one day workshop on Suffering and Cognition.
What is suffering’s place in our cognitive lives? Suffering is traditionally taken to be an impediment to reason, but what roles might suffering play in supporting and assisting cognition? In complex ways, our emotions respond to beliefs and other cognitive states. And empirical evidence shows that even physical suffering—its intensity and unpleasantness—can be thus influenced. What are the causal or normative relationships between hedonics and cognition? Our aim at this workshop is to explore how suffering and cognition interact and how those interactions might illuminate our understanding of both.
The day will be organized around the research of the following presenters:
Michael Brady (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
Marcel Brass (Psychology, Universiteit Ghent)
Jennifer Corns (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience, University of Southern California)
Stéphane Lemaire (Philosophy, Université de Rennes)
The workshop is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and is part of the larger project: The Value of Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Nature, Meaning, and Role of Affective Experiences. The Value of Suffering Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project whose aim is to foster multidisciplinary exploration of the roles that affective experiences—suffering in particular—play in our lives.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.valueofsuffering.co.uk/
Registration is free, but please register to secure a place.
The workshop will be held on 25 April 2014 at the Maison de la Recherche.
What is suffering’s place in our cognitive lives? Suffering is traditionally taken to be an impediment to reason, but what roles might suffering play in supporting and assisting cognition? In complex ways, our emotions respond to beliefs and other cognitive states. And empirical evidence shows that even physical suffering—its intensity and unpleasantness—can be thus influenced. What are the causal or normative relationships between hedonics and cognition? Our aim at this workshop is to explore how suffering and cognition interact and how those interactions might illuminate our understanding of both.
The day will be organized around the research of the following presenters:
Michael Brady (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
Marcel Brass (Psychology, Universiteit Ghent)
Jennifer Corns (Philosophy, University of Glasgow)
Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience, University of Southern California)
Stéphane Lemaire (Philosophy, Université de Rennes)
The workshop is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and is part of the larger project: The Value of Suffering: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Nature, Meaning, and Role of Affective Experiences. The Value of Suffering Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project whose aim is to foster multidisciplinary exploration of the roles that affective experiences—suffering in particular—play in our lives.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.valueofsuffering.co.uk/
Registration is free, but please register to secure a place.
To register or for further inquiries please email Abraham Sapién-Córdoba at:[email protected]
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