[SydPhil] Research Talk: Dr Brandon Yip (SMU), March 4 at Macquarie University

[Bhanuraj Kashyap]

Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to attend a talk by Dr Brandon Yip (SMU) at Macquarie University. He will be presenting a paper from his current research.
When: Wednesday, March 4, 1:00–2:30 pm
Where: Room 224 (The Moot Court), 17 Wally's Walk, Macquarie University
Title: Wonder Upon Wonder

Abstract

I propose a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and explains and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The various species of wonder are unified as responses to a recurrent practical situation: that of recognising that our cognitive structures require alteration in order to cognitively accommodate some object. This recognition is momentous in its implication for the self, yet its evaluative implications can be indeterminate. Its momentousness and ambivalence provoke a variety of secondary appraisals and coping responses that are built up around wonder’s core appraisal. The heterogeneity of wonder therefore reflects the diversity of ways human beings grapple with the limits of understanding and the possibilities of transformation. The ethical drama of negotiating one’s relationship with the wonderful object explains how questions about the ethics of wonder emerge.

Please register here<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Vxx4CK1DvKTMK96QEcMfRI5nTIu?domain=eventbrite.com.au>.
Thank you, and please feel free to contact Bhanu at bhanuraj.kashyap at mq.edu.au<mailto:bhanuraj.kashyap at mq.edu.au> if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Bhanu