Does anger impede political progress or is it essential for change? Does love make us biased or is it the foundation of ethical thinking? Might shame alter not merely our perception of the world, but the very world itself? Reason is often contrasted with emotion, but what if emotion is essential for understanding traditional philosophical ideas? And how did we end up thinking that reason could ever do without emotion?

SPEAKERS

Luke Brunning
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Luna Dolezal
Lecturer in Philosophy and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter

MM McCabe
Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, King’s College London


CHAIR

Clare Moriarty
Fellow, The Forum
Doctoral Researcher, King’s College London


More information: www.philosophy-forum.org


Recorded on 14 November 2017 at the LSE