Program

FEELING REASONS. THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN REASONING

 

WEDNESDAY 24 MAY

PHD SESSION – POSTER

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