This is a one-day conference on the philosophy of the emotions on the 29th September 2004, to be held at the University of Edinburgh. There is no conference fee but please contact the organisers, Edoardo Zamuner and Jamie Dow, if you would like to attend.
Location:
Morning session: Kemp Smith Room, 3rd Floor, David Hume Tower
Afternoon session: Conference Room, Ground Floor, David Hume Tower
Programme:
10.00 -- 11.25
Thomas Johansen (Edinburgh)
Plato and Aristotle on the rationality of desires and the desires of rationality
Respondent: Andrew Mason
11.40 -- 1.00
Jamie Dow (St Andrews)
How do Emotions help in Persuasion? The prospects for Aristotle of a legitimate role for Emotions in Rhetoric.
Respondent: Tim Chappell
1.00 -- 3.00
Conference Lunch* / Own arrangements
3.00 -- 4.25
Peter Goldie (King's College London)
The Distorting Power of Emotion
Respondent:
Berys Gaut
4.40 -- 6.00
Edoardo Zamuner (Edinburgh)
Opaque Emotions, Second-Order Emotions, and Emotionally-Toned Beliefs
Respondent:
Anthony Hatzimoysis 6.00
Wine Reception, Kemp Smith Room
Abstracts: are available in a single .pdf file on-line.
*There will be a conference lunch provided for speakers & respondents, which other conference participants are also encouraged to attend at their own cost. (Inexpensive lunch buffet at a local well-established South-Indian Restuarant, c.£6/head.) Participants may of course make their own separate arrangements instead.
The organisers wish to thank University of Edinburgh Philosophy Dept, University of St Andrews Philosophy Dept , the MIND Association , and the Scots Philosophical Club for their support.
