Held in the CAPSTRANS Seminar Room 1003 (Building 19, Arts) on Tuesdays at 17.30, all are welcome. 20th October 2009 Dr. Jacqui Poltera (UWS) "Autonomy, ambivalence, and repression" Mainstream accounts of autonomy, such as Harry Frankfurt's, hinge on the claim that in order to be autonomous, we should aim to resolve ambivalence since it necessarily threatens autonomy. Recently, however, J. David Velleman has argued that a worrying implication of this aspect of Frankfurt's account is that it can promote repression. This paper argues that although there are cases where it is preferable to aim to resolve ambivalence as soon as possible, this is not always the case. Further, a desire to resolve ambivalence need not promote repression, nor is repression as Velleman understands it necessarily inimical to autonomy. An implication of this discussion is that the relationship between ambivalence, autonomy and repression is less clear than either Velleman or Frankfurt tend to assume. With best wishes, Richard Dr. Richard Menary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Philosophy Programme Convenor Philosophy Research Node Convenor The University of Wollongong Research Seminar <http://phil-gong.blogspot.com/> University <http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/philosophy/UOW025977.html> Webpage Google Webpage <http://sites.google.com/site/richardmenary> Phil <http://philpapers.org/profile/3332> Papers Profile Books: Cognitive Integration Available from: Palgrave <http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275285> Macmillan and Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Integration-Mind-Cognition-Unbounded/dp/140 398977X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212105196&sr=8-1> The Philosophy of Cognition from: Acumen <http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/results.asp?sf1=author&st1=Richard%20Mena ry&TAG=&CID=&SORT=sort_title> Radical Enactivism (ed.) Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Enactivism-Intentionality-Phenomenology-Consc iousness/dp/9027241511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212105514&sr=1-1>
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