Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Affects and Mental Agency (AMA)

The aim of this reading group (co-convened by Filippo Contesi, David Pineda and Josefa Toribio) is to discuss philosophical and empirically informed work concerning affects (emotions, moods, sentiments etc.), as well as implicit biases and other aspects of mental agency.



Convenor:

Sessions

  • "Emotions and Formal Objects"

    Fabrice Teroni, dialectica, 2007

    25 October 2019

    11:30, Seminari Ramon Llull (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "Are Emotions Perceptions of Value?"

    Jérôme Dokic and Stéphane Lemaire, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2013

    15 November 2019

    11:30, Seminari María Zambrano (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "Do Emotions Represent Values?"

    Laura Schroeter et al., dialectica, 2015

    20 December 2019

    11:30, Seminari María Zambrano (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "What Kind of Evaluative States are Emotions? The Attitudinal Theory vs. the Perceptual Theory of Emotions"

    Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2019

    17 January 2020

    11:30, Seminari María Zambrano (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "Implicit versus Explicit Attitudes: Differing Manifestations of the Same Representational Structures?"

    Peter Carruthers, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2018

    07 February 2020

    11:30, Seminari María Zambrano (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "Freedom and Resentment"

    P.F. Strawson, 1962

    06 March 2020

    11:30, Seminari María Zambrano (4th floor, Facultat de Filosofia, UB)

  • "Affective Representation and Affective Attitudes"

    Jonathan Mitchell, Synthese, 2019

    03 April 2020

    11:30, Online

  • "Standing Emotions"

    Sin Yee Chan, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1999

    08 May 2020

    11:30, Online

  • “In Defence of Aestheticism”

    Tom Cochrane (Flinders), AMA/AE Joint Session

    https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/tom.cochrane

    15 May 2020

    11:30, Online

  • Selection from “Modeling the Meanings of Pictures”

    John Kulvicki (Dartmouth), AMA/AE Joint Session

    https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/john-kulvicki

    01 June 2020

    15:00, Online

  • "Emotions as Standing Dispositional States"

    Edoardo Zamuner, Annales Philosophici, 2011

    05 June 2020

    11:30, Online

  • Selection from "Immaterial: The Rules of Contemporary Art"

    Sherri Irvin (Oklahoma), AMA/AE Joint Session

    http://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/sherri-irvin

    22 June 2020

    17:00, Online

  • "Skepticism About Reasons for Love"

    Hichem Naar (Duisburg-Essen), AMA/AE Joint Session

    http://www.hichemnaar.com/

    03 July 2020

    14:00, Online

  • "Navigating Recalcitrant Emotions"

    Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck), AMA/AE Joint Session

    http://alexgrzankowski.com/

    31 July 2020

    14:00, Online

  • "Love, Death and Life's Summum Bonum: The Before Trilogy as Memento Mori"

    Anna Christina Ribeiro (Texas Tech), AMA/AE Joint Session

    https://sites.google.com/site/annachristinaribeiro/

    24 August 2020

    17:00, Online

  • “Shiny Happy Zombies”

    Uriah Kriegel (Rice), AMA/AE Joint Session

    http://uriahkriegel.com/

    10 September 2020

    17:00, Online