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Trevor AdamsApr 23, 2022, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDTTrevor AdamsHope theorists say that if S’s hope is to be rational, it is a necessary condition on hope that their subsequent belief and desire be justified. I want argue that the belief component can sometimes be unjustified, and yet the hope will remain justified.
Michael R. SpicherApr 23, 2022, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AMMichael R. SpicherAesthetic experience is a basic motivation for human action, which in part leads to flourishing. It is still necessary (possibly more so) during dark times, as illustrated by people, like Primo Levi.
Leo LepianoApr 23, 2022, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDTLeo LepianoFacing multiple global crises, what room is there, if any, for optimism? Is it ontologically correct? Is it psychologically possible? Can we make room for happiness without relinquishing responsibility? And does philosophy harm or help our efforts to answer these questions?
coffee hour
8:30-9:30
PDT
newhope
Bella-Rose Kelly | comments by Joe GloverBella-Rose Kelly | comments by Joe GloverMicroaggression causes epistemic harm to marginalized subjects. They have cumulative effects that diminish the epistemic confidence of the subject. Communities, I argue, can help mitigate such harms by fostering the subject's epistemic confidence and providing her with hope.
Philip Schwarz | comments by Laura NelsonPhilip Schwarz | comments by Laura NelsonI outline a reading of Alasdair MacIntyre to show how relationships of dependence shape our lives. Under the right conditions, these relationships are transformative experiences. They become meaningful and therefore valuable to us. This constitutes special moral demands.
"apa-style"
9:45-10:45
PDT
Johnathan FlowersJohnathan FlowersI draw on John Dewey to understand hope as the felt sense of possibility in the world. To be hopeful, therefore, is to have a sense of positive possibility; hoplessness is a sense of restricted possibility or restricted capacity to make the possible actual.
colloquium
1:00-3:00
PDT
Many thanks to our 2022 Cogtweeto Sponsors Andrew Bridges, David Hoinski, Tim Kenyon, Klynton, Laura Nelson, Kristopher G. Philips, Sarah Wieten, Twitter user @mondilator and generous anonymous donors for making this workshop possible.
Thomas BonnApr 23, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDTThomas BonnIn some of Plato's myths, incurable people suffer endless torment. In others, they don't. The Neoplatonists rightly rejected the notion that Plato held anyone to be incurable. Plato's actual sketch of the soul's endless journey (given e.g. in the Myth of Er) is oddly comforting.
Blakely PhillipsApr 23, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDTBlakely PhillipsWhat is believing in yourself? Using Evans's theory of pretense I argue that believing in oneself is a pretense that when successful undergoes a 'game-to-reality shift': the belief held as a pretense becomes true in the real world.
Jonathan McKinneyApr 23, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDTJonathan McKinneyAs the global ecological, psychological, and economic crises worsen by the day, it would seem that hope for life on our planet is dimming. Luckily for us, human beings (& philosophers) are profoundly stupid. In this coffee hour, we will sacrifice our brains for a glimmer of hope?
coffee hour
11:00-12:00
PDT
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