{"id":527,"date":"2017-02-13T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philsoc.eu\/?p=527"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:01:12","slug":"week-5-events-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euphilsoc.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/week-5-events-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
Please Note: This week’s Discussion Group will take place in Usher’s <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Reading and Film Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Monday, 13th\u00a0February; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0The New Amphion, Teviot Row House\u00a0(Map<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n
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Reading: Susan Bordo’s Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of
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\n(Next week’s film: “The Look of Silence”\u00a0(2014), Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer (IMDb<\/a>) )<\/div>\n
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Discussion Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Tuesday, 14th February<\/span><\/span>; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>, Usher’s, West Nicolson Street (Map<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Topic: Liberty<\/em><\/div>\n
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Academic Support Office Hours<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Wednesday, 15th February<\/span><\/span>; 3.00\u00a0pm until 5.00\u00a0pm<\/span><\/span>, Dugald Stewart Building (DSB), Room 3.01.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Guest Lecture<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday, 16th\u00a0February<\/span><\/span>; 6.15 pm<\/span><\/span>, David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaker: Prof. Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, University of Sheffield<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Title: “Being in love with Merleau-Ponty“<\/em><\/div>\n
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Abstract:\u00a0<\/em>What is love? One might be tempted by the view that love is a type of feeling, and to be in love is to feel a certain kind of way. If this were true, it seems to follow that no-one could be mistaken about whether or not they were in love. But this seems wrong. People are regularly confused about such matters. How, then, should we understand love? In this talk, I will explore Merleau-Ponty\u2019s account. Merleau-Ponty argues that love is a way of perceiving, and interacting with, the world. Perception, for him, does not present the perceiver with \u2018neutral\u2019 information about entities. It immerses her in a rich world of things that \u2018invite\u2019 her to act. It does this in part because it has an affective dimension \u2013 things literally look scary (inviting us to run away), foreboding (demanding that we avoid them), enticing (drawing us into them), and so on. To be in love, for Merleau-Ponty, is to perceive one\u2019s beloved as demanding certain kinds of loving behaviour. It also \u2018lights up\u2019 other parts of the world, so that the cafe where we always meet is infused with a welcoming glow, the noisy children invite affection rather than annoyance, and the time between the loved one\u2019s visits become an interminable wait when I lose interest in all my usual pursuits. It is also to act in ways that are in line with these perceptions of the world. On this view, love becomes a thread woven through the fabric of one\u2019s life; a certain \u2018style\u2019 of perceiving and acting. Merleau-Ponty then tells us that\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0love is one that concerns a person\u2019s whole being, whilst\u00a0illusory<\/em>\u00a0love is such that it only touches us at a superficial level. To the person concerned, they can sometimes appear the same. Sometimes, it is only when reflecting on the patterning of one\u2019s life that one can tell if one has really been in love.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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