Workshop on the Phenomenology of Moral Emotions

The field of phenomenological research in recent decades has expanded beyond epistemological concerns to issues in ethical thinking. The questions of a possible phenomenology of moral experience—can there be such a study, what would its proper object be, and how do we isolate what is distinctively moral in our affective experience?—are still in dispute. The newly formed Centre for Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion at ACU will be hosting a workshop to explore the ongoing development of phenomenological perspectives on moral experience.

Programme

Friday, October 5

250 Victoria Parade

Level 5, Board Room 5.15

10.00am: Coffee and Tea on arrival

10:30am–11:30am: Anthony J. Steinbock, “Pride: Moral Resistance as Self-Limitation”

11:30am–12:30pm: Lunch

12:30pm–1:30pm: Michael R. Kelly (Boston College, USA): “A Phenomenological Alternative to Gabriele Taylor’s Moral Psychology of Envy”

1:30pm–2:30pm: Discussion 

3.00pm: Book Launch for Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought (Continuum, 2012), edited by Jeffrey Hanson and Michael R. Kelly 

Introduced by Antony J. Steinbock

For any other queries, please contact Dr. Nick Trakakis: [email protected], or phone: +61 3 9953 3263.