[SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP) seminar 1st September Laura Candiotto (Cagliari and Pardubice)

[Emily Hughes]

Dear all,


You are warmly invited to the next MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP)
seminar which will be given by *Laura Candiotto (Cagliari and Pardubice)*



The details are as follows:

Date: Tuesday 1st of September

Time:   13:00-14:00

Room: 17WW 113



Zoom Link:
*https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/7w2HC4QOPEi6JpY53uOfGlh4rTFt?domain=macquarie.zoom.us
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*Title: *Emotional Friction: The ethical significance of affective
sense-making



*Abstract:* Colombetti (2005) has challenged the standard dichotomous
conceptualisation of affective valence (pleasure/pain: Russell 1980,
good/bad: Kahneman 1999) showing that emotional experience is much more
complex than the classical contrasting of polarised hedonic feelings
implies. Drawing on the enactive approach to embodied cognition, I expand
the investigation into tensional valence as emotional friction. By
emotional friction, I mean a tension between activity and passivity while
facing a situation that does not reply to one’s values and existential
commitments (Candiotto 2023a, forthcoming, Candiotto & Tempone-Wilthshire,
forthcoming). Emotional friction has been introduced in the debate by José
Medina (2019) in the context of racial violence and active ignorance. He
argued that not just epistemic friction, i.e., disagreements about
worldviews and conflicts about beliefs, but emotional friction can be
catalysts for “epistemic activism”, i.e., challenging and transforming
harmful knowledge practices, also by disrupting complacency. I maintain
that to fully appreciate the transformative role of emotional friction, we
need to further develop the discussion into its phenomenal character. By
diving deeper into emotional friction as a felt sense of vulnerability,  I
shed light on the tensional valence that is immanent to bodily feelings. My
claim is that emotional friction motivates and constitutes sense-making
and, so, has a crucial ethical value in character revision responsibility.


Further information about the seminar series including details on future
talks can be found at the seminar webpage:
*https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/6MiKC6XQ4LfMonVm8Cmi7Xh5KDZH?domain=mqphilosophy.github.io
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We look forward to seeing you there.

*Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her)

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy

School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts

Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk

Level 2, Room 233

Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country

NSW 2109 Australia

E: emily.hughes at mq.edu.au

W: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/VGx2C81V0PTQj7OqLiotgwhykC55?domain=researchers.mq.edu.au



*I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug
Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug
people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always
was, always will be, Aboriginal land.*