CFP: Emotional and Physical Suffering: Roles and Values

Emotional and Physical Suffering: Roles and Values

Joint Workshop of the Value of Suffering Project with PIs David Bain and Michael Brady with partners Markus Werning and Kevin Reuter at the Ruhr University Bochum

Announcement and Call for Abstracts

16th - 17th April 2015

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

http://www.valueofsuffering.co.uk/events/

Suffering plays a complex role in people’s lives, having affective, motivational, and cognitive aspects. The ways in which one can suffer appear diverse: suffering experiences range from those with obvious physical components, e.g. bodily pain and nausea, to others with obvious emotional components, e.g. depression and grief. 

This workshop will focus on the respects in which emotional and physical suffering are similar and different, ethically, experientially, functionally and neurologically. We aim to foster interdisciplinary research in an area that is at an early stage.

We invite submissions from philosophy and empirical sciences for 30 minute presentations. Please submit an abstract of 500 words to [email protected]

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 20th, 2015. 

Notification of Acceptance: February 28th, 2015.

Exemplary topics:

- Differences and similarities between the affective component of physical and emotional suffering

- Differences and similarities between introspection and knowledge of physical and emotional suffering

- Differences and similarities between negative emotional and physical states

- Differences and similarities between pleasure and states of suffering

- Cognitive and neural mechanisms of states of suffering

- Ethical dimensions of states of suffering- 

- Placebo effects for states of suffering

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Ulrike Bingel (University of Duisburg-Essen, Neurology)

Michael Brady (University of Glasgow, Philosophy)

Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow, Philosophy)

Albert Newen (University of Bochum, Philosophy)

Kevin Reuter (University of Bochum, Philosophy)

Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State University, Philosophy)

Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke (University of Bochum, Neurology)

Markus Werning (University of Bochum, Philosophy)

For information concerning submissions and Ruhr University Bochum contact: [email protected]

For information concerning the Value of Suffering Project visit http://www.valueofsuffering.co.uk/ or contact: [email protected]