On the 3rd of March, 2024, Laura Silva (Université Laval) will be giving a keynote talk at the Society for Affective Science’s annual conference. The talk is entitled: “Who’s Afraid of Philosophy of Emotion? Promises, Challenges, and a New Concern for Justice”

“In this talk I will introduce philosophy of emotion and outline what it has to offer the interdisciplinary study of emotion (spoiler: a lot!). I will also highlight challenges that may arise when psychologists and philosophers try to work together and make some suggestions as to how we might overcome them. I will focus on ‘traditional’ philosophy of emotion but also on the more recent feminist, or critical, approaches to the philosophy of emotion that I believe are particularly relevant to future work in the affective sciences.”

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