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Sensing as Activity: Its Impact on the Structure of Perceptual and Emotional Experience

English title Sensing as Activity: Its Impact on the Structure of Perceptual and Emotional Experience
Applicant Deonna Julien Amos
Number 150265
Funding scheme Project funding (Div. I-III)
Research institution Département de Philosophie Université de Genève
Institution of higher education University of Geneva - GE
Main discipline Philosophy
Start/End 01.08.2014 - 30.09.2017
Approved amount 316'821.00
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Keywords (8)

Philosophy of perception; Affordances; Active perception; Perceptual reference; Emotions; Dispositions; Intentionality; Action tendencies

Responsible applicant and co-applicants

Employees

Collaboration

Group / person Country
Types of collaboration
Université de Fribourg, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Gianfranco Soldati Switzerland (Europe)
- Exchange of personnel
Centre de Recherche en Ethique de L'université de Montréal, Prof Christine Tappolet Canada (North America)
- Publication
- Exchange of personnel
International Network for Sensory Research, Prof. Mohan Matthen Canada (North America)
- Exchange of personnel
Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, Prof. Barry C. Smith Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Europe)
- Exchange of personnel

Scientific events

Active participation

Title Type of contribution Title of article or contribution Date Place Persons involved
Conference Emotion and Action Talk given at a conference The Epistemic Role of Emotional Experience 09.11.2017 Antwerp, Belgium Teroni Fabrice;
Colloque de recherche Talk given at a conference Emotion et justification 07.11.2017 Neuchâtel, Switzerland Deonna Julien Amos;
Workshop on Negative Emotions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Talk given at a conference Boredom 30.05.2017 Geneva, Switzerland Oliver Skuse Tristram;
Emotions in Politics Talk given at a conference Emotions and Evaluative Knowledge 11.05.2017 Vercelli, Italy Teroni Fabrice;
Phénoménologie des émotions Talk given at a conference Emotions and Consciousness 24.04.2017 Liège, Belgium Teroni Fabrice;
Cycle de conférences Talk given at a conference Les émotions sont-elles à la source de notre connaissance des valeurs ? 04.04.2017 Université de Lille 3, France Deonna Julien Amos;
Thumos Seminar Talk given at a conference Not Quite Neosentimentalism 02.03.2017 Geneva, Switzerland Oliver Skuse Tristram;
Ringvorlesung "Emotionen" Talk given at a conference Emotions and Values 27.02.2017 Zürich, Switzerland Teroni Fabrice;
Thumos Seminar Talk given at a conference Emotional Feeling and Proper Objects 24.11.2016 Geneva, Switzerland Oliver Skuse Tristram;
Experience, Values, and Justification Talk given at a conference Emotional Justification 02.06.2016 Geneva, Switzerland Echeverri Santiago; Deonna Julien Amos; Teroni Fabrice;
43rd Annual Philosophy of Science Conference Talk given at a conference Visual Reference and Iconic Content 11.04.2016 Dubrovnik, Croatia Echeverri Santiago;
Emotion and Experience Workshop Talk given at a conference Phenomenological Worries for the Attitudinal Theory of Emotion 17.02.2016 Warwick, Great Britain and Northern Ireland Deonna Julien Amos;
Taller "La experiencia perceptiva" Talk given at a conference Disyuntivismo epistemológico, ceguera modal y escepticismo 24.11.2015 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Echeverri Santiago;
La connaissance et ses raisons: Perspectives épistémologiques contemporaines Talk given at a conference Scepticisme radical, disjonctivisme et indiscriminabilité 14.09.2015 Paris, France Echeverri Santiago;
Master Seminar 2015: Chris Peacocke: Intentionality and the Primacy of Metaphysics Talk given at a conference Peacocke on Self-Reference and Rules 28.05.2015 Fribourg, Switzerland Echeverri Santiago;
4èmes journées de métaéthique Talk given at a conference Les attitudes appropriées verbatim 11.05.2015 Université de Rennes 1, France Teroni Fabrice;
Unconscious Mental Processes Series Talk given at a conference Emotional Attitudes 05.03.2015 Antwerp, Belgium Deonna Julien Amos;
Thumos Seminar Talk given at a conference Object Files, Properties, and Perceptual Content 25.09.2014 Genève, Switzerland Echeverri Santiago;


Awards

Title Year
Finalist at the Prize for Young Researchers: Sixth Edition (2015-2016) - Francophone Society for the Philosophy of Science (SPS) - University of Lausanne (Switzerland), June 29-July 1, 2016 2016

Associated projects

Number Title Start Funding scheme
157441 Modes and Contents 01.09.2015 SNSF Professorships
176364 Feel bad, live well! The value of negative emotions for well-being 01.09.2018 Project funding (Div. I-III)
152883 Emotions and the Understanding of Values 01.10.2014 SNSF Professorships

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