Emotions, Feelings and Intuitions

11:00 am - 12:15 pm: Fabrice Teroni, How Do Emotions Relate to Bodily (Dis)Pleasures

Bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions are valenced, i.e. they are positive or negative. What is valence? How do bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions relate to one another? In this talk, my aim is to assess the prospects of two popular theses regarding the relation between bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions in light of what we can reasonably think about valence. According to the first thesis, the valence of bodily (dis)pleasures is explanatory prior vis-à-vis the valence of emotions. According to the second, emotions contain bodily (dis)pleasures. I argue that bodily (dis)pleasures are intentional states whose valence is to be understood in terms of evaluative experience, and bring to light the similarities and dissimilarities between their intentional structure and that of emotions. On this backdrop, I offer reasons to conclude that we should adopt neither of the two theses.

12:15pm - 2:00 pm: lunch

2:00 pm - 3:15pm: Bénédicte Veillet, TBA

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: coffee break


3:30 pm - 4:45 pm: John Bengson, Love at First Intuition

I explore the idea that love requires acquaintance with the beloved, and offer an intuition-based account of such acquaintance.

Organization: Jérôme Dokic, Slawa Loev & Élisabeth Pacherie