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Dirty Politics: The Role of Disgust in Political and Moral Judgment

In recent years a great deal of psychological research has highlighted the powerful role emotions play in shaping our attitudes and judgments. Evidence has been found that individuals who are more easily disgusted in everyday life tend to have different moral and political views than those who are less easily disgusted. This research helps shed light on how basic differences in emotion can give rise to differences in our judgement about the social world that surrounds us.

Monday April 7, 2014 6:00 PM Wells Fargo Auditorium (Beatty Center)

Pizarro Lecture

“Covers as Social Commentary: Dylan, The Monkees, and Tiffany” by Theodore Gracyk

Please join the First-Year Experience, Philosophy, and Music Departments at a lecture, “Covers as Social Commentary: Dylan, The Monkees, and Tiffany” by Theodore Gracyk on Friday, November 2nd at 3:15pm in Tate 202. Theodore Gracyk is a philosopher of music and culture at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, author of several books including Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock (1996); I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity (2001); Listening to Popular Music (2007); and On Music (forthcoming).

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2011 – 2012 Bachelor’s Essay Presentation – “Sentiment and Circuits: the Effects of Human-Robot Interaction on Ethical Intuitions” – Meredith Oliver

Please join the Department of Philosophy at the 2011 – 2012 Bachelor’s Essay presentation on Friday, 4/13/12 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm in ECTR 113. Meredith Oliver will be presenting her Bachelor’s Essay Sentiment and Circuits: the Effects of Human-Robot Interaction on Ethical Intuitions.

Aesthetics in Participatory, Socially Engaged Art

The Philosophy Department and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences present

“Aesthetics in Participatory, Socially Engaged Art”
Michael Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Contemporary art is increasingly participatory and socially engaged. What are the aspirations, operations, and effects of such art? What are its predecessors? How has aesthetics been an explicit partner in the development of participatory art when, by contrast, so much art since the 1960s has been committed to an anti-aesthetic stance? Is art still tied to aesthetics as it becomes ever more socially engaged?

Thursday, April 12, 3:15PM
Tate Center 202,
Reception to follow

For further information contact Professor Jonathan Neufeld, Department of Philosophy: neufeldja@cofc.edu