{"id":2092,"date":"2025-10-28T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:45:45","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2025-26: Session 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Puzzle Concerning Reason and the Emotions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">31 October 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Each of the following theses enjoys some support in recent philosophical discussions: (1) emotions, like judgments and resolutions, can be exercises of rational agency, and held in light of various considerations that seem to the agent to support them; (2) emotions, unlike judgments or resolutions, cannot constitute our drawing the conclusion of some reasoning; (3) any exercise of rational agency, held in light of considerations that seem to support it, can constitute our drawing the conclusion of reasoning from those same considerations. Proponents of thesis (1) (e.g., Olivia Bailey, Rachel Achs) have sought to argue against thesis (2). Proponents of thesis (2) (e.g., Conner Schultz, Nate Sharadin) have sought to argue against thesis (1). In this paper, I defend both theses (1) and (2), and give an explanation of why thesis (3) is false. This explanation will shed light on how inference differs from other forms of reasons-responsiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This activity is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT &#8211; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID\/00310\/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Puzzle Concerning Reason and the Emotions Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) &nbsp; 31 October 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0Each of the following theses enjoys some support in recent philosophical discussions: (1) emotions, like judgments and resolutions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}