FEELING REASONS. THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN REASONING
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
9.45 Jose M. Araya, University of Edinburgh, Predictive processing and emotion: integrating high-level knowledge and emotion
10:15 Maike Klein, University of Stuttgart, An enactive theory of emotions in artificial systems?
10:45 Discussants (Sam Wilkinson and Maria Neijzen, University of Edinburgh) and Q&A
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 Benedetta Romano, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Reasoning, or how emotion implements cognition
12:00 Valeria Bizzarri, University of Pisa, The Primacy of Emotions in Cognition. A case study from psychopathology.
12:30 Discussants Slawa Loev, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (Matilde Aliffi, University of Birmingham) and Q&A
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Kelly Epley, University of Oklahoma, Revisiting the question: Emotion-judgment conflicts and rational judgment revision.
14:15 Miguel Egler, University of St Andrews, Intuition, Noetic Feelings, and Philosophical Methodology.
14:45 Discussants (Michel Croce and Yu Ni, University of Edinburgh) and Q&A
15:30 Keynote talk (in partnership with the Epistemology Research Group) Michael Brady, University of Glasgow, Reasoning about the Feelings of Others
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – POSTER
THURSDAY 25 MAY
First Session. Chair: Jesper Kallestrup
9:15: Pascal Engel, UMR8566 EHESS/CNRS Paris, The rational role of epistemic emotions
10:00 Cecilea Mun, University of Nevada, How emotions know
10:45 Coffee Break
Second Session. Chair: Mog Stapleton
11:00: Raamy Majeed, University of Cambridge, When Emotions Misfire. Encapsulation as an Explanation of Irrational Emotions
11:45 Mary Carman, University of Geneva, Emotional Thinking
12:30 Lunch
Third Session. Chair: Michela Massimi
13:45 Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh, Happily Entangled: Emotions, Cognition, and the Predictive Mind (based upon joint work with Mark Miller)
14:30 Alison Duncan Kerr, University of St Andrews, Feeling in Reasoning: The Case of Emotional Acumen
15:15 Coffe Break
Fourth Session. Chair: Laura Candiotto
15:30 Dave Ward, University of Edinburgh, Sensorimotor Understanding
16:15 Tom Cochrane, University of Sheffield, Reason as an Extension of Affect
19:00 Conference dinner
FRIDAY 26 MAY
Fifth Session. Chair: Michael Brady
9:15: Sabine Roeser, TU Delft, Ethical Intuitions and Emotions as Doxastic States
10:00: Katherine Rickus, Marquette University, Emotions and obstacles to self-knowledge
10:45: Coffee Break
Sixt Session. Chair: Carrie Figdor
11:00 Philip Gerrans, University of Adelaide, Depersonalisation Disorder as a Window on Self-Awareness
11:45 Owen Earnshaw, Durham University, Disorientation and Cognitive Inquiry
12:30 Lunch
Seventh Session. Chair: Orestis Palermos
13:45 Roberta Dreon, University of Venice, Emotional exchanges. George Herbert Mead on the origins of language
14:30 Anja Berninger, University of Stuttgart, Thinking together, feeling together – What relevance do shared emotions have for group cognitions?
15:15 Coffee Break
Eight Session. Chair: Dory Scaltsas
15:30 Dina Mendonça & João Sàágua, University of Lisbon, The Role of Reflexivity and Meta-Emotions in Reasoning
16:15 Anthony Hatzimoysis, University of Athens, Moody Reasons
Local Convenor:
Dr. Laura Candiotto