The Role of Emotions in Epistemic Practices and Communities
Are emotions vehicles of knowledge, and if yes, in virtue of what features? What is the role of emotions in social epistemic practices? What is the impact of local affective arrangements on epistemic communities?
In this workshop we will discuss the epistemic value of emotions at the intersection of philosophy of emotion and social epistemology. The aim is to foster an understanding of the role played by emotions in epistemic life. Different philosophical approaches and methodologies are brought into critical conversation.
An online seminar over the month of March 2021
Free University Berlin
Here you can find the link for attending it online:
1. Thursday 4th of March 2021
The epistemic role of emotions
Chair: Jan Slaby
16:00 Moritz Müller, University of Bonn
Knowing value and engaging with value
17:00 Laura Candiotto, FU Berlin
Epistemic emotions and co-enquiry: Dialogical approaches to knowledge creation in organisations
18:00 Hichem Naar, University of Duisburg-Essen
Skepticism about Reasons for Emotions
19:00 General discussion (30 mins)
2. Thursday 11th of March 2021
Collective emotions and knowledge
Chair: Laura Candiotto
16:00 Christiana Werner, University of Göttingen
Can you feel my fear? Phenomenal knowledge of another person’s affective state
17:00 Gerhard Thonhauser, University ofDarmstadt
Collective emotions: mechanisms of convergence and types of experience
18:00 Valeria Bizzarri, University of Leuven
Feeling as knowing: a multilayered account of collective agency
19:00 General discussion (30 mins)
3. Thursday, 18th March 2021
Emotions, evaluation, and understanding
Chair: Jan Slaby
16:00 Joel Krueger and Lucy Osler, University of Exeter
Affective self-evaluation in the techno-social niche: eating disorders as a case study
17:00 Imke von Maur, University of Osnabrück
Emotions and understanding in socio-cultural practices: Being “affectively disruptable” as an epistemic ability
18:00 Michael Brady, University of Glasgow
Negative emotion and meaning-making
19:00 General discussion (30 mins)
4. Thursday, 25th March 2021
Emotions in the social world
Chair: Laura Candiotto
16:00 Millicent Churcher, FU Berlin
TBA
17:00 Jan Slaby, FU Berlin
Disclosure and denial: On the epistemic predicament of human affectivity
18:00 Gen Eickers, University of Ludwigsburg
Emotional expressions as social practices: How social scripts shape our emotion performance
19:00 General discussion (30 mins)
This workshop is organized by Jan Slaby and Laura Candiotto at FU Berlin as part of Laura Candiotto’s project “Bond. Positive Emotions for Group Cognition”, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, https://emotionsfirst.org/bond-2019-2021/, and by Jan Slaby’s subproject B05 “Changing Repertoires of Emotion II” at the CRC 1171 Affective Societies (see https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/en/index.html)
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