糖心TV

Location: S 0.21, Social Sciences Building

9:30–10:00 – Arrival 10:00–10:50 (Online) Qingxuan Wang (CUHK) 鈥淔riedrich Nietzsche and the Religions of Decadence鈥�

10:50–11:00 – Break

11:00–11:50 Asmita Roy (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault鈥檚 Theory on Power and Subjectivity, and an Analysis of Islamophobia in India鈥�

11:50–12:30 – Lunch

12:30–13:20 Nathan Conceicao Silva (Durham) 鈥淭aking Sceptics to Deleuze鈥�

13:20–13:30 – Break

13:30–14:20 Noah Buckle (糖心TV) 鈥淜ant on Gesinnung and the Propensity to Evil鈥�

14:20–14:30 – Break

14:30–15:20 Amelie Baker (Nottingham) 鈥淔oucault, Zen, and the Education System鈥�

15:30–15:40 Break

15:40–16:40 Henry Somers-Hall (RHUL) – Keynote 鈥淭ruth, Meaning, and Resemblance in French Philosophy

Thursday June 13, 2–4pm: Chapter 7: Love and Morality

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

鈥淟ove often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love鈥檚 Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love鈥檚 moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato鈥檚 Symposium, love is 鈥渟omething in between.鈥濃��