Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction
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The course is designed to cover a wide range of interests about the nature of emotional events. The biological emergence of emotional states, the relationship between emotions and consciousness, the deep interactions between cognitive and emotional processes,
the bodily location of emotions are, among others, some of the main topics covered by this course. The sources of the course come from several research fields such as Philosophy, Neurology, Psychology, Anthropology, Robotics, or AI, among others. Thanks to
a non-specialized use of vocabulary, the ideas explained will be easily assimilated by the audience. Anyhow general audiences from any academic specialization are welcome. At the end of the course, the student should be able to analyze critically and to synthesize
information on emotions obtained by reading academic papers or specialized monographs, as well as that valuable information distributed through the Internet.
At the end of the course:
a) the student should be able to contribute to daily-life debates making significant and precise conceptual contributions in contexts of emotional analysis;
b) the student should be able to relate concepts and knowledge among different areas of contemporary philosophical research related to the bonds between emotions, culture and nature. She/he must be able to observe epistemic, ethical and political implications
of these dependencies;
c) the student should be able to identify and describe relevant theoretical elements of contemporary research on emotions;
d) the student should be able to evaluate the implication for the human nature of the influence of emotional forces that operate intensively today in human societies.
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Professor Dr.
Philosophy Department
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jordi Vallverdú, Ph.D., M.Sci., B.Mus, B.Phil is Tenure Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia). His research is dedicated to the epistemological and cognitive aspects of Philosophy of Computing, Sciences and AI.
He is founder and Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE). He has written several books:
- (2007) Una ética de las emociones¸ (2009) Bioética computacional, México: FCE;
- (2009) Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, USA:
- IGI Global Group;
- (2010) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, USA: IGI Global Group;
- (2011) ¡Hasta la vista Baby! Un ensayo sobre los tecnopensamientos, BCN: Anthropos;
- (2012) Creating Synthetic Emotions through Technological and Robotic Advancements, USA: IGI Global Group;
- (2015) Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statistics, Springer, forthcoming;
- (2015) Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, USA: IGI, forthcoming.
In 2011 he won a prestigious Japanese JSPS fellowship to make his research on computational HRI interfaces at Kyoto University. He has been keynote at ECAP09 (TUM, München, Germany), EBICC2012 (UNESP, Brazil) and SLACTIONS 2013 (Portugal).