Colloquium Series Guest Speaker: Renee Rushing

Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024, 4–5:30 p.m.

Please join us Wednesday, April 17th.

Colloquium Speaker - Renee Rushing (Florida State University)

"Fitting Diminishment of Anger: A Permissivist Account"

Many philosophers hold the view that anger is an evaluative emotion. Specifically, anger is believed to be an appraisal that someone has done something morally unacceptable. If this is true, then anger is a backwards looking emotion, for it is directed at an event that has already occurred. But there is a puzzle posed by this backwards-looking nature of anger. Though our anger commonly diminishes over time, how can it diminish fittingly if it is an accurate appraisal of an event that is situated in the past?

Philosophy Department

530-898-6183

phil@csuchico.edu

https://www.csuchico.edu/hfa/departments/phil/