[SydPhil] Fwd: CAVE Seminar: 13 Oct, Jennifer Radden (Massachusetts, Boston): "Folly, Melancholy, Madnesse are but one disease: Feelings and Reasoning Norms in the Anatomy of Melancholy and today's Mind Sciences."

[Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics]

The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics
<http://cave.mq.edu.au/home/> (CAVE) has a research seminar coming up. We
are happy to host Jennifer Radden (Massachusetts, Boston), who will give
the following seminar:

*"Folly, Melancholy, Madnesse are but one disease: Feelings and Reasoning
Norms in the Anatomy of Melancholy and today's Mind Sciences."*

Abstract: Relying on Stoic philosophical ideas, *Burton’s Anatomy* (1621)
presents the case that the unavoidable sadness and sorrow we feel in
response to life’s vicissitudes are matched by, and tied to, unavoidably
errant and mistaken reasoning. In this respect, I show, the *Anatomy*
anticipates findings and debates in the mind sciences of today. Disputes
over distresses that are normal and adaptive rather than pathological
(“normal sadness,” not depression), are the focus of one of these; the
second involves the finding that bias and inaccuracy are built into the
structure of normal thought patterns. Using Stoic ideas, Burton links the
norms guiding feeling and reasoning, and the aim of this paper is to
critically evaluate that relationship and the Stoic claims in light of
contemporary discussions.

Date: Tuesday 13 October 2015
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Blackshield Room (W3A 501), Macquarie University

All welcome, no need to register!

Please email me if you have any questions: arts.cave at mq.edu.au

Kelly

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Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics
Department of Philosophy
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
cave.mq.edu.au
www.facebook.com/MQCAVE
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