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Friday, November 7, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
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Emily Berry
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Group: Philosophy Colloquium Series
Category: Academic
Title: Two Myths about Emotion
Abstract. An old myth once held that emotion and reason are fundamentally opposed. In this paper, I argue that a common philosophical strategy for overcoming this myth—defending an analogy between emotional rationality and propositional rationality—constitutes many philosophers’ “new myth” about emotion. I defend the alternative that emotions help frame agents’ outlooks in ways that precede and underlie the possibility of forming propositional attitudes in the first place. I conclude by considering the implications this has for an account of the rational assessment of emotions.