[PHILOS-L] Santiago Amaya - The emotion account of forgiveness (BGTMC Zoom talk, July 7, 12:15 CEST/18:15 Taiwan time)
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Juan F. Álvarez
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Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium, I am pleased to announce the talk “The emotion account of forgiveness” by Santiago Amaya (Rice University) on Tuesday, July 7th (12:15 CEST/18:15 Taiwan time).
Please join the Zoom meeting using the details below. Registration is not necessary.
On behalf of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium, I am pleased to announce the talk “The emotion account of forgiveness” by Santiago Amaya (Rice University) on Tuesday, July 7th (12:15 CEST/18:15 Taiwan time).
Please join the Zoom meeting using the details below. Registration is not necessary.
• Meeting ID: 988 5906 3721
• Password: 302355
Abstract: In this talk, I defend emotion-based accounts of forgiveness from other rival accounts. To do this, I focus on a version of them, the emotional distancing account (Amaya, 2019; Fernandez-Miranda et al, 2025). I argue that this kind of accounts describes forgiveness in ways that make them continuous with other well-known psychological phenomena, which makes them appealing to those who favor naturalistic approaches to moral psychology. Also, they provide an explanation of common perceptions of the value forgiveness that rival theories simply disregard as mistakes. Although these reasons might not be definitive in favor of the emotion account (or against its rivals), they offer a reconstruction of the phenomenon that helps explain some of the social dynamics behind it.
This virtual colloquium series focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory and related areas, and also reaches out to philosophically interested researchers in the cognitive sciences. The colloquium is organized by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes (Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin), the Ruhr University Bochum (Markus Werning and Juan F. Álvarez), and the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll).
• Password: 302355
Abstract: In this talk, I defend emotion-based accounts of forgiveness from other rival accounts. To do this, I focus on a version of them, the emotional distancing account (Amaya, 2019; Fernandez-Miranda et al, 2025). I argue that this kind of accounts describes forgiveness in ways that make them continuous with other well-known psychological phenomena, which makes them appealing to those who favor naturalistic approaches to moral psychology. Also, they provide an explanation of common perceptions of the value forgiveness that rival theories simply disregard as mistakes. Although these reasons might not be definitive in favor of the emotion account (or against its rivals), they offer a reconstruction of the phenomenon that helps explain some of the social dynamics behind it.
This virtual colloquium series focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory and related areas, and also reaches out to philosophically interested researchers in the cognitive sciences. The colloquium is organized by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes (Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin), the Ruhr University Bochum (Markus Werning and Juan F. Álvarez), and the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll).
For further details, see the colloquium webpages: https://phil-mem.org/seminars/bochum-grenoble-taipei.php and https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/MemoryColloquium.html#BGTMC_2025_2026
We look forward to seeing you.
On behalf of the organizers,
We look forward to seeing you.
On behalf of the organizers,
Juan
Juan F. Álvarez
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