Please join us on October 30th, 2026 for our Fall Colloquium with Matthew Congdon of Vanderbilt University, for a talk entitled “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.