Society for Philosophy of Emotion Affiliated Group Session (G7E)
2019 Central American Philosophical Association
Friday, February 22, 2019, 7:30 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. Session Title: “Author Meets Critics: Rick Anthony Furtak, Knowing Emotions” Chair: Daniel R. Herbert (University of Sheffield) 7:30 p.m. – 7:40 p.m.: Book Synopsis, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College) (10 minutes) 7:40 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.: First Commentary, “Not taking the middle path, recalcitrant emotions, and Furtak’s phenomenal intentionality theory of emotional content,” Cecilea Mun (Independent Scholar, Founding Director, Society for Philosophy of Emotion, and Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Philosophy of Emotion) (20 minutes) 8:00 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.: Second Commentary, David Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “An inferentialist response that cognitivism does not need to traffic in notions of truth, reference, or representation” (20 minutes) 8:20 p.m. – 8:40 p.m.: Third Commentary, “Emotional knowing, a priori, perspectivism, temperament, and objectivity,” Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto) (20 minutes) 8:40 p.m. – 8:50 p.m.: Short Break 8:50 p.m. – 9:10 p.m.: Fourth Commentary, “The Importance of Moods,” Francisco T. Gallegos (Wake Forest University) (20 minutes) 9:10 p.m. – 9:40 p.m.: Response to Comments, Rick Anthony Furtak (30 minutes) 9:50 p.m. – 10:10 p.m.: Audience Questions for Author and Panel of Critics (20 minutes)