About The Workshop

While emotions are often studied in relation to individual experience, this workshop focuses on how they serve to shape political life. It asks after the social roles played by sentiments like fear, hope, resentment, anxiety, and empathy. And it addresses the nature of emotionally-mediated phenomena like forgiveness and apology with an eye to their function in public discourse, institutions, political movements, and social cohesion.

A different workshop theme is chosen each year, and leading scholars working in fields including moral psychology, political theory, and social epistemology are brought together to share new work. The theme for 2025 is Anxiety.

Any questions about the workshop should be directed to the workshop organizer, Simone Gubler

Schedule

Location: PPE Center Seminar Room, Brown University, 25 George St, Providence, RI 02906

Friday, May 2nd 2025:

9:30AM – 11AM: Michael Brady

11:15AM-12:45PM: Heidi Lene Maibom

12:45PM – 2PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:30PM: Graduate Panel, A Danger Which We Do Not Know

3:45PM-5:15PM David Rondel

6:30PM Dinner

Saturday, May 3rd 2025:

9:30AM – 11AM: Sam Murray

11:15AM-12:45PM: Krista Thomason

12:45PM – 2PM Lunch

2PM-3:30PM:

This workshop receives generous support from Brown University’s Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.