Emotions and Emotion Concepts

Conference in Bern, 29th November - 1st December 2018

A three-day conference on Emotions and Emotion Concepts

This conference brings together philosophers, psychologist, and cognitive scientists to discuss and develop some avenues for successfully tackling issues regarding:

(1) the nature of emotion,

(2) the structure of emotion concepts,

(3) how folk understanding and scientific operationalization of emotion terms (should) relate to each other.

Conference Program

Thursday, 29^th November, Hauptgebäude Hochschulstrasse 4 (Main Building) Room 331

9.00 – 9.30 Registration & Introductory Remarks

9.30 – 10.10 Experimental philosophy of emotion, Rodrigo Díaz

10:10 - 10:40 Distinguishing the phenomenal from the cognitive, Kevin Reuter & Rodrigo Díaz

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.40 Scripted emotion concepts, Gina Eickers

11.40 – 12.20 Conceptual spaces and constructed emotions, Benjamin Genta

12.20 - 13.50 Lunch Break at Migros (Zähringerstrasse 43)

13.50 - 14.30 Suffering as a virtue, Michael Brady

15.10 - 15.40 Coffee Break

15.40 – 16.50 Measurement and training of emotional competence, Katja Schlegel

16.50 – 17.30 The role of folk-psychology in the emotion kinds debate, Juan R. Loaiza

19.00 Conference Dinner at Altes Tramdepot (Grosser Muristalden 6)

Friday, 30^th November, Unitobler Room F-121

9.30 – 10.40 How do emotions work? A constructionist perspective, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.40 Happiness as affective evaluation, Mauro Rossi

11.40 – 12.20 Is compersion a new emotion and when it is possible?, Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

12.20 - 13.50 Lunch Break at Ali Baba (Lerchenweg 35)

13.50 - 15.00 Emotions and the body – role of interoception and associations to alexithymia, Olga Pollatos

15.00 - 15.40 How do I feel? Alexithymia revisited, Viiktoria Kononova

15.40 - 16.10 Coffee break

16.10 – 17.20 The Intentional Structure of Emotions and the Phenomenology of Value, Fabrice Teroni

17.20 - 18.00 Emotions, Propositions and Content, Jonathan Mitchell

18.30 Dinner at Casa d'Italia (Bühlstrasse 57)

Saturday, 1^st December, Unitobler Room F-121

9.30 - 10.40 Are Emotions Cultural Constructions?, Jesse Prinz

10.40 – 11.10 Coffee Break

11.10 – 11.50 Non-standard emotions and aesthetic understanding, Irene Martínez

11.50 – 12.30 No hard feelings: A naturalistic, functionalist, psychological and relational account of emotion, Daniel Dukes & Eric Walle

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)

Olga Pollatos (University of Ulm)

Jesse Prinz (City University New York)

Katja Schlegel (University of Bern)

Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva)

Christine Wilson-Mendenhall (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This workshop is financed by the Swiss National Foundation.

Organization:

Rodrigo Díaz (University of Bern)

Kevin Reuter (University of Bern)