5th Philosophy of Emotions Workshop & Book Symposium

June 5, 2026 - June 6, 2026
Zhejiang University

Hangzhou
China

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Zhejiang University

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June 5 Philosophy of Emotions Workshop on Grief

Chair: LI Zhongwei (Zhejiang University)

9:00-9:45

What Grief Tells Us About Structural Emotional Rationality

Michael CHOLBI (University of Edinburgh)

9:45-10:30

The Morally Transformative Attention(s) of Grief

YAO Ying (University of Oslo)

Chair: ZHONG Shiwen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

10:45-11:30

Good at Grieving: Some Thoughts on Grieving and Imagination

Serena GREGORIO (University of Giessen)

11:30-12:15

Love, Death, and the Extreme Difficulty of Grief

LIU Lepei(University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Chair: Kristjan LAASIK (Zhejiang University)

14:00-14:45

Fittingly Diminishing Backward-looking Emotions

Julius SCHOENHERR (Peking University)

14:45-15:30

Endless Grief as a Component of Flourishing: A Deflationary Response to the Successor Attitudes Problem

Alice KELLEY (University of Utah)

Chair: CHEN Yawen (Shenzhen University)

15:40-16:25

Grief as a Type of Constructed and Rational Emotion: An Investigation from the Perspective of Zhuangzi

LEI Muchun (University of Hong Kong)

Chair: TIAN Jie (Renmin University of China)

16:35-17:20

The Paradox of Grief and the Method of Self-Recognition: A Stoic Alternative

LI Zhiming (Peking University)

17:20-18:05

The Vocabulary and Normativity of Grief in Classic Antiquity

XIE Yuxuan (Peking University)


June 6 Book Symposium on Michael Cholbi’s Grief: A Philosophical Guide

Chair: AN Dong (Zhejiang University)

9:00-9:10

The Epistemic Value of Grief

ZHANG Lun (Shandong University)

9:10-9:20

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Grief as Wandering Inquiry

Kam-Ho CHAN (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

9:20-9:30

Good Grief!

Teresa BRUNO-NIÑO (Rice University)

9:30-9:40

Grief’s Formal Object Reconsidered: Relationship, Identity, and the Temporal Structure of Mourning

ZOU Hantong (Beijing Normal University)

9:40-9:50

Do We Owe the Deceased the Duty of Grief?

LI Yumeng (Wuhan University)

9:50-10:00

Between Self-Knowledge and Institutional Support: A Constructive Dialogue with Michael Cholbi’s Grief

CHEN Junlong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

15 minutes break

10:15-11:00

Author’s Responses & Discussion

Michael CHOLBI (University of Edinburgh)

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