Nature and Culture Reading Group Michaelmas 2015
This term's reading group will focus on the topic of emotion. We will be discussing recent work on the emotions by philosophers, evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists, historians and cognitive scientists. Does it make sense to talk of basic emotions, or of emotions grounded in biology? On the other hand, do emotions vary between societies or over time? Can these two competing ideas be reconciled? If so, how? Meetings take place on Thursdays 1-2pm, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH. All are welcome to our events. In addition to philosophers and historians of science, we also hope to attract researchers from the biological sciences, psychology, and all branches of archaeology and anthropology. For details of the specific readings please see http://www.humannature.hps.cam.ac.uk/ReadingGroup. If you have any trouble finding the readings please email [email protected] 8 October Philosophers on What a Theory of Emotions Should Do Introduced by Christopher Clarke 15 October Evolutionary Psychologists on the Function of Emotions Introduced by Tim Lewens 22 October Neuroscientists and Developmental Psychologists on Basic Emotions Introduced by Adrian Boutel 29 October How Do Emotions Vary Between Places and Societies? Introduced by Riana Betzler 5 November How Do Emotions Vary Between Places and Societies? II 12 November Historians on Emotions in the Past 19 November Anthropologists on How to Write about Emotions 26 November Are Emotions a natural kind? Have Philosophers Anything to Contribute? _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
