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SUMMARY:Despair and Diachronic Agency: Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans
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DESCRIPTION:<p>We are pleased to invite you to the next session of&nbsp\;the<strong>&nbsp\;Empirically&nbsp\;Informed&nbsp\;Philosophy of Mind online Seminar&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Who:</strong> Juliette Vazard (University of Z&uuml\;rich)<br><strong>When:</strong> Wednesday\, May 13th\, 2026 &mdash\; 5:30&ndash\;7 pm (CET)<br><strong>Where:</strong> Online via Zoom:<br><a target="_blank">https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/92782580594?pwd=a5p3WfunQQxJICrjJaUenFJFzmllbx.1</a><br><strong>What:</strong> <em>Despair and Diachronic Agency:&nbsp\;Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans</em></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>In this paper\, I add to the current debate regarding the nature and value of despair. I argue that despair should not be viewed strictly as a&nbsp\;form of sadness (Milona and Stockdale\, 2025)&nbsp\;but rather as an emotional reaction through which we&nbsp\;apprehend the loss of a future as likely. As such\, despair is not only valuable because it provides a&nbsp\;&ldquo\;reflective break&rdquo\; (Menges &amp\; Altehenger\, 2025). Instead\, it is a response of &ldquo\;restless apathy&rdquo\; which&nbsp\;prepares us both to retreat and renounce our commitments\, and to launch &lsquo\;last resort&rsquo\; &lsquo\;desperate&rsquo\; acts.&nbsp\;Despair is not only valuable as an antidote to &ldquo\;wishful hoping&rdquo\; (Huber\, 2024) but\, more fundamentally\, because it counteracts our resistance to reconsidering plans we are diachronically committed to. As beings with temporally extended agency\, we form intentions that guide\, monitor\, and rationally control&nbsp\;action across time (Mylopoulos &amp\; Pacherie\, 2019). Despair allows us to respond to the disheartening&nbsp\;lowering of chances of success by urgently reconsidering our plans\, in spite of our inherent resistance&nbsp\;to doing so.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>For any questions\, please contact:</strong><br>Sacha Behrend &mdash\; sachabehrend1991@gmail.com<br>Elodie Boissard &mdash\; Elodie.Boissard@univ-paris1.fr</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Program</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>17 Sept 2025:</strong> G&eacute\;raldine Carranante &mdash\; <em>Can we list what we can see?</em></li>\n<li><strong>1 Oct 2025:</strong> J&eacute\;r&ocirc\;me Dokic &mdash\; <em>Two levels of confusion between Imagination and Memory</em></li>\n<li><strong>12 Nov 2025:</strong> Margherita Arcangeli &mdash\; <em>Episodic Memory through the lens of Aphantasia</em></li>\n<li><strong>3 Dec 2025:</strong> James Grayot &mdash\; <em>How do embodied and extended minds internalize contents?</em></li>\n<li><strong>13 Jan 2026:</strong> Rapha&euml\;l K&uuml\;nstler &mdash\; <em>Is the human mind receptive to reasons? A confrontation with experimental social psychology</em></li>\n<li><strong>4 Feb 2026:</strong> Constant Bonard &mdash\; <em>Can a Belief&ndash\;Desire Theory Explain All Affective States?</em></li>\n<li><strong>12 March 2026:</strong>&nbsp\;Lucie Berkovitch&nbsp\;&mdash\;<em>&nbsp\;</em><em>Psychedelics and the therapeutic potential of altered states of consciousness</em></li>\n<li><strong>2 April 2026:</strong> Piotr Kozak &mdash\; <em>Attentional Templates\, Mental Imagery\, and Rigidity of Imaginative Content</em></li>\n<li><strong>13 May 2026:</strong><em></em>Juliette Vazard &mdash\; <em>Despair and Diachronic Agency:&nbsp\;Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans</em><em></em></li>\n<li><strong>4 June 2026:</strong><em></em>Francesco Iani &mdash\; <em>Mental simulation(s) as memory process(es)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Organizers:</strong><br><br></p>\n<p>Sacha Behrend &mdash\; Postdoctoral Researcher\, University of Hradec Kr&aacute\;lov&eacute\; (Czech Republic) / Affiliated Researcher\, Institut d&rsquo\;histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST)\, Universit&eacute\; Paris 1 Panth&eacute\;on-Sorbonne</p>\n\n<p>Elodie Boissard &mdash\; Postdoctoral Researcher\, Bordeaux Neurocampus Department / Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Int&eacute\;gratives d&rsquo\;Aquitaine (UMR 5287)\, Universit&eacute\; de Bordeaux\, CNRS</p>
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