2022
APA conferences
(January)
Society for Philosophy of Emotion Affiliated Group Session Thursday, January 6, 2022, 7:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. (3 hours total) (Eastern Time)
COLLOQUIUM
"Anger in Ethics and Epistemology"
Location: Session G9L, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, MD
Colloquium Schedule:
1st Presenter
07:00 – 07:20: "Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice," Kevin Timpe (Calvin College, MI)
07:20 – 07:30: Commentary, Trystan Goetze (Harvard University, MA)
07:30 – 07:35: Author's reply
07:35 – 08:25: Audience Q&A
08:25 - 08:35: Short Break
2nd Presenter
08:35 – 09:55: "Anger, Rebuke, and Epistemic Blame," Trystan Goetze (Harvard University, MA)
09:55 – 10:05: Commentary, Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University, MI)
10:05 – 10:10: Author's reply
10:10 – 11:00: Audience Q&A
Note to Authors and Commentators: Authors, please email your papers to your commentators by October 1, 2021. Commentators, please email your comments to the authors by November 30, 2021. Authors, please also make sure to email your reply to your commentator by December 31, 2021. All authors and commentators should also make sure that they are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that they also register for the 2022 Eastern APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member). Finally, we will be using the APA format and rules for colloquium papers. So please refer to those rules if you have any questions: APA Guide for Meeting Participants.
1st Presenter
07:00 – 07:20: "Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice," Kevin Timpe (Calvin College, MI)
07:20 – 07:30: Commentary, Trystan Goetze (Harvard University, MA)
07:30 – 07:35: Author's reply
07:35 – 08:25: Audience Q&A
08:25 - 08:35: Short Break
2nd Presenter
08:35 – 09:55: "Anger, Rebuke, and Epistemic Blame," Trystan Goetze (Harvard University, MA)
09:55 – 10:05: Commentary, Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University, MI)
10:05 – 10:10: Author's reply
10:10 – 11:00: Audience Q&A
Note to Authors and Commentators: Authors, please email your papers to your commentators by October 1, 2021. Commentators, please email your comments to the authors by November 30, 2021. Authors, please also make sure to email your reply to your commentator by December 31, 2021. All authors and commentators should also make sure that they are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that they also register for the 2022 Eastern APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member). Finally, we will be using the APA format and rules for colloquium papers. So please refer to those rules if you have any questions: APA Guide for Meeting Participants.
(January)
Society for Philosophy of Emotion Affiliated Group Session Thursday, January 13, 2022, 2:00 -5:00 p.m. (3 hours total) (Eastern Time)
BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Expressiveness: Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects
Marta Benenti
Location: Session G19E, Virtual APA, Baltimore MD
Abstract: A natural landscape can look serene, a shade of colour cheerful and a piece of music might sound heartrending. Why do we ascribe affective qualities to objects that can't entertain psychological states? The capacity that objects, and especially artworks, have to express affective states is a bizarre phenomenon that needs to be clarified in numerous respects. Philosophers are still struggling with the phenomenon of expressiveness being a matter of imagination, perception, or mnemonic association, and usually do not agree on the role that emotions and human bodily expressions play in it. Benenti questions the main theories that populate the aesthetics domain using the tools of philosophy of mind. This study deals with crucial debates concerning seeing-in, cognitive penetration, the relation between phenomenal character and representational content and between emotions and expressions. It aims at providing a viable account of the experience we have of expressive properties by casting light on its fundamentally perceptual nature. The outcome is an empirically informed and critical overview of a topic which has been rather neglected in the philosophy of mind. The book will be of interest to scholars of the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, the cognitive sciences, and psychology.
Book Symposium Schedule:
Chair: Kevin Timpe (Calvin College, MI)
2:00 – 2:15: Book Synopsis, Marta Benenti (San Raffaele University, Italy)
2:15 – 2:30: First Commentary, Becko Copnehaven (Washington University in St. Louis, MO) and Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College, OR)
2:30 – 2:45: Second Commentary, María José Alcaraz León (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
2:45 – 3:00: Third Commentary, Matteo Ravasio (Peking University, China)
3:00 – 3:15: Fourth Commentary, Yujia Song (Salisbury University, MD)
3:15 – 3:20: Short Break
3:20 – 4:00: Author’s Response, Marta Benenti (San Raffaele University, Italy)
04:00 – 5:00: Audience Questions for Author and Panel of Commentators
Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by November 30, 2021 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than February 29, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Marta Benenti's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by December 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than February 29, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Eastern APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).
Book Symposium Schedule:
Chair: Kevin Timpe (Calvin College, MI)
2:00 – 2:15: Book Synopsis, Marta Benenti (San Raffaele University, Italy)
2:15 – 2:30: First Commentary, Becko Copnehaven (Washington University in St. Louis, MO) and Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College, OR)
2:30 – 2:45: Second Commentary, María José Alcaraz León (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
2:45 – 3:00: Third Commentary, Matteo Ravasio (Peking University, China)
3:00 – 3:15: Fourth Commentary, Yujia Song (Salisbury University, MD)
3:15 – 3:20: Short Break
3:20 – 4:00: Author’s Response, Marta Benenti (San Raffaele University, Italy)
04:00 – 5:00: Audience Questions for Author and Panel of Commentators
Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by November 30, 2021 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than February 29, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Marta Benenti's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by December 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than February 29, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Eastern APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).
(February)
Society for Philosophy of Emotion Affiliated Group Session Friday, February 25, 2022, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (2 hours total) (Central Time)
BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Mind-Body Politics
Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna
Location: Session G4H, The Palmer House, Hilton, Chicago, IL
Abstract: Political philosophy of mind integrates work in philosophy of mind and emancipatory political theory. On the philosophy of mind side, The Mind-Body Politic draws from existing research on the essential embodiment theory and enactivism, together with work from Jan Slaby, John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and J.J. Gibson. On the emancipatory political theory side, it draws from the work of Kant, Schiller, Frankfurt, and Foucault. The authors begin with the claims that human minds are necessarily and completely embodied, enactive, social, and environmentally embedded. Their central thesis is that social institutions partially determine and shape our essentially embodied minds, and thereby fundamentally affect our lives. To illustrate and support this thesis, they examine social institutions in contemporary neoliberal societies, specifically higher education and mental health practice. Although these social institutions shape our essentially embodied minds in a destructive way, it is possible to create social institutions that are more constructive and liberating. According to the authors’ proposed enactive-transformative principle, enacting salient changes in the structure and complex dynamics of a social institution produces corresponding salient changes in the structure and complex dynamics of the essentially embodied minds of the participants.
Mason Cash
University of Central Florida
Michelle Maiese
Emmanuel College in Boston, MA
Alan Jurgens
Independent Scholar/
University of Wollongong, Australia
Book Symposium Schedule:
Chair: Cecilea Mun (University of Louisville, KY)
7:00 – 7:10: Book Synopsis, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College in Boston, MA) and Robert Hanna (Independent Scholar)
7:10 – 7:25: First Commentary, Mason Cash (University of Central Florida)
7:25 – 7:40: Second Commentary, Alan Jurgens (Independent Scholar/University of Wollongong, Australia)
7:40 – 7:55: Third Commentary, Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College, PA)
7:55 – 7:10: Fourth Commentary, Ali Teymoori (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)
7:10 – 7:25: Fifth Commentary, Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge, England)
7:30 – 9:00: Author’s Response and Audience Q&A, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College in Boston, MA) and Robert Hanna (Independent Scholar)
Possible social event after the session: Please speak with Cecilea Mun after the session to find out about the SPE social event that has been planned for after the session. Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by December 31, 2021 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than March 31, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Michell and Bob's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by January 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than April 30, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Central APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).
Chair: Cecilea Mun (University of Louisville, KY)
7:00 – 7:10: Book Synopsis, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College in Boston, MA) and Robert Hanna (Independent Scholar)
7:10 – 7:25: First Commentary, Mason Cash (University of Central Florida)
7:25 – 7:40: Second Commentary, Alan Jurgens (Independent Scholar/University of Wollongong, Australia)
7:40 – 7:55: Third Commentary, Joseph Shieber (Lafayette College, PA)
7:55 – 7:10: Fourth Commentary, Ali Teymoori (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)
7:10 – 7:25: Fifth Commentary, Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge, England)
7:30 – 9:00: Author’s Response and Audience Q&A, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College in Boston, MA) and Robert Hanna (Independent Scholar)
Possible social event after the session: Please speak with Cecilea Mun after the session to find out about the SPE social event that has been planned for after the session. Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by December 31, 2021 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than March 31, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Michell and Bob's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by January 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than April 30, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Central APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).
(April)
Society for Philosophy of Emotion Affiliated Group Session Saturday, April 16, 2022, 6:00 -9:00 p.m. (3 hours total) (Pacific Time)
Session G10D: BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Eco-Affectivity
Marjolein Oele
Location: The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia
Abstract: E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life's Material Interfaces is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird feathers, the ontogenesis of human life through the placenta, the bare interface of human skin, and the porous materiality of soil. Combining biology, phenomenology, Ancient Greek thought, new materialisms, environmental philosophy, and affect studies, Marjolein Oele thinks through the concrete, living places that show the receptive, responsive power of living beings to be affected and to affect. She focuses on these localized interfaces to explain how affectivity emerges in places that are always evolving, creative, porous, and fluid. Every interface is material, but is also “more” than its current materiality in cocreating place, time, and being. After extensively describing the effects of the milieu and community within which each example of affectivity takes place, in the final chapter Oele adds a prescriptive, ethical lens that formulates a new epoch beyond the Anthropocene, one that is sensitive to the larger ecological, communal concerns at stake.
Book Symposium Schedule:
Chair: Miguel José Paley (The New School for Social Research, NY)
6:00 – 6:10: Book Synopsis, Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco, CA)
6:10 – 6:25: First Commentary, Florian Grosser (University of California at Berkley, CA)
6:25 – 6:40: Second Commentary, Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University, PA)
6:40 – 6:55: Third Commentary, Shaila Wadhwani-Greenhalgh (Marquette University, WI)
6:55 – 7:10: Fourth Commentary, Shilo Whitney (Fordham University, NY)
7:10 – 7:20: Short Break
7:20 – 8:00: Author’s Response, Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco, CA)
8:00 – 9:00: Audience Questions for Author and Panel of Commentators
Possible social event after the session: Please speak with Miguel José Paley or Marjolein Oele after the session to find out about any SPE social event that might be occurring after the session. Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by February 28, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than May 31, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Marjolein's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by March 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than June 30, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Central APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).
Chair: Miguel José Paley (The New School for Social Research, NY)
6:00 – 6:10: Book Synopsis, Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco, CA)
6:10 – 6:25: First Commentary, Florian Grosser (University of California at Berkley, CA)
6:25 – 6:40: Second Commentary, Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University, PA)
6:40 – 6:55: Third Commentary, Shaila Wadhwani-Greenhalgh (Marquette University, WI)
6:55 – 7:10: Fourth Commentary, Shilo Whitney (Fordham University, NY)
7:10 – 7:20: Short Break
7:20 – 8:00: Author’s Response, Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco, CA)
8:00 – 9:00: Audience Questions for Author and Panel of Commentators
Possible social event after the session: Please speak with Miguel José Paley or Marjolein Oele after the session to find out about any SPE social event that might be occurring after the session. Note to Critics: Please note that the order of presenters may change depending on the comments that will be submitted, which should be emailed to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by February 28, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your comments to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than May 31, 2022. Your symposium paper should be approximately 3,000 words. Finally, please let Cecilea know if you will need a copy of Marjolein's book. She will be contacting the publisher to request review copies. Note to Author: We ask that you submit your response to your commentators to all the participants (just so we’re all on the same page) by March 31, 2022 using the group email thread set-up by Cecilea. We also ask that you submit the final drafts of your précis and response to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, to be peer reviewed and published as a part of a book symposium in the 2022 summer or winter issue, no later than June 30, 2022. Your symposium précis should be between 1,500-3,000 words, and we will leave it to you to determine the length of your response. Note to Presenters: You should make sure that you are a member of the SPE at the time of the conference and that you also register for the 2022 Central APA conference (which may be more cost effective if you are also a member).