Dear all,
You are warmly invited to the next MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP) seminar which will be given by *Laura Candiotto (Cagliari and Pardubice)* The details are as follows: Date: Tuesday 1st of September Time: 13:00-14:00 Room: 17WW 113 Zoom Link: *https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/86932261160?pwd=k5qDEdWLQa9hfux1D3bhduEaaNt3U5.1* <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmacquarie.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86932261160%3Fpwd%3Dk5qDEdWLQa9hfux1D3bhduEaaNt3U5.1&data=05%7C02%7Cemily.hughes%40mq.edu.au%7Cc21c5af0ac484298618d08defe9b35b6%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C639228139787680833%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i14tHIcNgLYYIQjgulvQUCj1euQ3FZmUns5kRmuLIBo%3D&reserved=0> *Title: *Emotional Friction: The ethical significance of affective sense-making *Abstract:* Colombetti (2005) has challenged the standard dichotomous conceptualisation of affective valence (pleasure/pain: Russell 1980, good/bad: Kahneman 1999) showing that emotional experience is much more complex than the classical contrasting of polarised hedonic feelings implies. Drawing on the enactive approach to embodied cognition, I expand the investigation into tensional valence as emotional friction. By emotional friction, I mean a tension between activity and passivity while facing a situation that does not reply to one’s values and existential commitments (Candiotto 2023a, forthcoming, Candiotto & Tempone-Wilthshire, forthcoming). Emotional friction has been introduced in the debate by José Medina (2019) in the context of racial violence and active ignorance. He argued that not just epistemic friction, i.e., disagreements about worldviews and conflicts about beliefs, but emotional friction can be catalysts for “epistemic activism”, i.e., challenging and transforming harmful knowledge practices, also by disrupting complacency. I maintain that to fully appreciate the transformative role of emotional friction, we need to further develop the discussion into its phenomenal character. By diving deeper into emotional friction as a felt sense of vulnerability, I shed light on the tensional valence that is immanent to bodily feelings. My claim is that emotional friction motivates and constitutes sense-making and, so, has a crucial ethical value in character revision responsibility. Further information about the seminar series including details on future talks can be found at the seminar webpage: *https://mqphilosophy.github.io/seminars/* <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmqphilosophy.github.io%2Fseminars%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cemily.hughes%40mq.edu.au%7Cc21c5af0ac484298618d08defe9b35b6%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C639228139787703352%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4DPwD8U2RmCxEVCWbKm7nx84I54Nsa3gUpxhI9V%2FUqU%3D&reserved=0> We look forward to seeing you there. *Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her) ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk Level 2, Room 233 Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country NSW 2109 Australia E: [email protected] W: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/emily-hughes *I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.* --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
