The Philosophy of Anxiety

About the Workshop:

While emotions are often studied in relation to individual experience, this annual workshop series focuses on how they serve to shape political life. It asks after the social roles played by sentiments like fear, hope, resentment, anxiety, and empathy. And it addresses the nature of emotionally-mediated phenomena like forgiveness and apology with an eye to their function in public discourse, institutions, political movements, and social cohesion.

A different workshop theme is chosen each year, and leading scholars working in fields including moral psychology, political theory, and social epistemology are brought together to share new work. The theme for 2025 is Anxiety.

The workshop is open to all interested, but due to limited space we kindly ask those planning to attend to RSVP to the organizer.