CALL FOR PAPERS
EMOTIONS, OTHERS AND THE SELF
August 25-27, 2005
Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland.
The research group "Emotions and Understanding" at the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland, invites papers for an international conference on the theme "Emotions, others and the self", 25-27 August, 2005.
THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE
In recent years academic interest in emotions has increased in different fields such as psychology, cognitive science, education, and philosophy. In philosophy emotions are now considered to be important from many different angles, in moral philosophy as well as in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, social and political philosophy, etc. The focus of philosophical discussions of emotions has often been on
whether emotions are merely feelings or whether they involve rational thinking. These discussions tend to concentrate on how emotions concern us as individuals. Rather than discussing emotions as a matter of individual experience or as a matter of rational belief, the theme of this conference is to bring out the various roles emotions have from the perspective of a life shared with other people.
Themes that may be discussed from an interpersonal perspective are: Emotions and moral concern; Emotions and personal relations; How do we understand other people's emotions?; Emotions from a feminist perspective; Emotions and the body; The other as a condition for emotional maturity and growth; Emotions, health and madness; Emotions
and self-understanding; Interpersonal emotions such as love, envy, hate, jealousy, anger, sorrow, shame, guilt etc. Also other workshop themes may come up depending on the abstracts that are submitted.
The plenary speakers of the conference include:
Lilli Alanen, (Uppsala University), author of Descartes' Concept of Mind.
John Canfield, (University of Toronto), author of The Looking Glass Self, an examination of self-awareness.
Leila Haaparanta, (University of Tampere).
Phil Hutchinson, (Manchester Metropolitan University).
Camilla Kronqvist, (Åbo Akademi).
Brian Parkinson, (Christchurch College, Oxford) author of Ideas and Realities of Emotion and Emotion in Social Relations: Cultural, Group and Interpersonal Processes.
Robert C. Roberts, (Baylor University, Texas), author of Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology.
Robert C. Solomon, (University of Texas at Austin), author of The Passions and About Love: Reinventing Romance for our Time.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We hereby invite workshop contributions which address questions related to the theme of the conference. Each workshop session will be 45 minutes (20 minutes for presentation, 25 minutes for discussion).We plan to make the plenary papers and the workshop abstracts available in advance on the conference website.
Please submit a 500 word abstract of the paper you wish to present by email to: tom.kettunen@abo.fi preferably as a Word document or in RTF format. DEADLINE for abstracts is 15 April 2005! Accepted authors will be notified by 15 May 2005.
We also warmly welcome participants who do not wish to give a paper.
The conference fee will be 20 EUR. For undergraduate students the conference is free of charge. The optional conference dinner will cost around 25 EUR extra.
More information will be found at:
http://www.abo.fi/fak/hf/filosofi/Research/Emotions/eos
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the "Emotions and Understanding" research project at the Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland and financed by the Academy of Finland. More information about our project can be found at http://www.abo.fi/fak/hf/filosofi/Research/Emotions/emotions.php.
The members of the organizing committee are Ylva Gustafsson, Lars Hertzberg, Tom Kettunen, Camilla Kronqvist and Michael McEachrane.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Tom Kettunen
Department of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University
Fabriksgatan 2
FIN-20 500 Åbo
Finland
email: tom.kettunen@abo.fi
tel. +358 2 215 3611
http://www.abo.fi/fak/hf/filosofi/Research/Emotions/eos