Book Launch!
23 May 2019
The Emotional Mind: the Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
By Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel Synopsis: Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason than to our capacity to feel. Many accounts of the human mind concentrate on the brain’s computational power. Yet, in evolutionary terms, rational cognition emerged only recently. Many of the distinctive behaviors and social structures of our species are best discerned through the lens of emotions. Even the roots of so much that makes us uniquely human―art, mythology, religion―can be traced to feelings of caring, longing, fear, loneliness, awe, rage, lust, playfulness, and more. Using affective neuroscience and ecological psychology, Asma and Gabriel will argue that emotions have intentionality, and that the mind is neither a computer nor a collection of innate modules. Schedule: 15.00-16.00 Talk by Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel 16.00-17.00 Q&A 17.00-18.00 Pub with speakers. |
Venue: Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room. Use the 34 Gell Street entrance.
The Humanities Research Institute is two minutes walk from The University of Sheffield tram stop on the corner of Gell Street and Leavygreave Road. The area is well served by buses from the train station and city centre. There are bicycle stands for cyclists at the front of the building. The building is wheelchair accessible from the back (entry on 34 Gell Street). More information about the venue can be found here.
The Humanities Research Institute is two minutes walk from The University of Sheffield tram stop on the corner of Gell Street and Leavygreave Road. The area is well served by buses from the train station and city centre. There are bicycle stands for cyclists at the front of the building. The building is wheelchair accessible from the back (entry on 34 Gell Street). More information about the venue can be found here.