Thursday Seminar -- Feb 26
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Joshua Pearson
Feb 22, 2026, 4:22:50 PMFeb 22
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Hello Everyone,
This week, the Thursday Seminar Series welcomes Brandon Yip (SMU), who will be presenting on February 26th, at 3:30pm, in the RSSS Auditorium (room 1.28). Title and abstract are below.
Other events in the day include:
Title: Wonder upon Wonder
Abstract: I propose a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and explains and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The various species of wonder are unified as responses to a recurrent practical situation: that of recognising that our cognitive structures require alteration in order to accommodate some object. This recognition is momentous in its implication for the self, yet its evaluative implications can be indeterminate. Its momentousness and ambivalence provoke a variety of secondary appraisals and coping responses that are built up around wonder’s core appraisal. The heterogeneity of wonder therefore reflects the diversity of ways human beings grapple with the limits of understanding and the possibilities of transformation. The ethical drama of negotiating one’s relationship with the wonderful object explains how questions about the ethics of wonder emerge.
Will surely be a wonderful talk,
This week, the Thursday Seminar Series welcomes Brandon Yip (SMU), who will be presenting on February 26th, at 3:30pm, in the RSSS Auditorium (room 1.28). Title and abstract are below.
Other events in the day include:
- A grads-only pre-talk session with the speaker in room 6.68 at 2:00pm;
- (Brandon sent around an optional, short reading for this. Let me know if you didn't receive it!)
- Tea in the School of Philosophy tearoom at 3:00pm;
- Drinks at Badger & Co at 5:00pm;
- Dinner at TBD (let me know if you have preferences!) at 6:30pm, half-subsidized for grad students (put your name down here if you would like to join).
- All visitors (faculty, graduate students, undergraduates) are welcome to join for dinner. Faculty dine at a rate of ~$30.00 AUD, and graduate students and undergraduates at a rate of roughly $15.00 AUD.
Title: Wonder upon Wonder
Abstract: I propose a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and explains and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The various species of wonder are unified as responses to a recurrent practical situation: that of recognising that our cognitive structures require alteration in order to accommodate some object. This recognition is momentous in its implication for the self, yet its evaluative implications can be indeterminate. Its momentousness and ambivalence provoke a variety of secondary appraisals and coping responses that are built up around wonder’s core appraisal. The heterogeneity of wonder therefore reflects the diversity of ways human beings grapple with the limits of understanding and the possibilities of transformation. The ethical drama of negotiating one’s relationship with the wonderful object explains how questions about the ethics of wonder emerge.
Will surely be a wonderful talk,
Josh
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