Political Emotions Workshop

2025: The Philosophy of Anxiety

May 2-3, 2025

Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Brown University

Workshop Schedule

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Schedule

Location: PPE Center Seminar Room, Brown University, 25 George St, Providence, RI 02906

Friday, May 2nd 2025:

9:15AM: Breakfast

9:30AM – 11AM: Michael Brady, Trauma, Anxiety, and Growth

11:15AM-12:45PM: Heidi Lene Maibom, Depression and Anxiety

12:45PM – 2PM: Lunch

2:00PM-3:30PM: Book Panel, A Danger Which We Do Not Know: Conrad Damstra, Kimberly Ramos, Evelyn Wang, Meredith Gilman

3:45PM-5:15PM David Rondel, Anxiety and the Past

6:30PM Dinner

Saturday, May 3rd 2025:

9:15AM: Breakfast

9:30AM – 11AM: Sam Murray, The Ideology of Affect: Toward a Rational Account of Partisan Animosity

11:15AM-12:45PM: Krista Thomason, Reasoning with Anxiety

12:45PM – 2PM Lunch

2PM-3:30PM: Bernard Reginster, Two Concepts of Anxiety

This workshop receives generous support from Brown University’s Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

About the Workshop:

While emotions are often studied in relation to individual experience, this workshop focuses on how they serve to shape political life. It asks after the social roles played by sentiments like fear, hope, resentment, anxiety, and empathy. And it addresses the nature of emotionally-mediated phenomena like forgiveness and apology with an eye to their function in public discourse, institutions, political movements, and social cohesion.

A different workshop theme is chosen each year, and leading scholars working in fields including moral psychology, political theory, and social epistemology are brought together to share new work. The theme for 2025 is Anxiety.

Any questions about the workshop should be directed to the workshop organizer, Simone Gubler.