Philosophy Seminar - "Not in the mood for hedonic intentionalism"
Date | Thursday 23 September 2021 |
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Time | 4:10pm - 5:30pm |
Where | K.B.01 |
Presenter | Lorenzo Buscicchi |
Contact | Jeremy Wyatt |
Contact email | jeremy.wyatt@waikato.ac.nz |
Admission Cost | Free |
Lorenzo Buscicchi (Waikato) will be delivering a Philosophy Programme seminar entitled "Not in the mood for hedonic intentionalism."
Abstract: In my presentation, I advance an objection to hedonic intentionalism—the claim that all pleasures are intentional mental states. According to what I call the “cheerfulness objection”, the mood of cheerfulness lacks intentionality. The globalist strategy—the standard move to save the intentionality of moods—is rejected. This strategy seems phenomenologically implausible: it simply does not seem to respect our experience of cheerfulness. Thus, cheerfulness ends up being a damaging counter-example to hedonic intentionalism. More generally, assuming that pleasure is a mental state, if some pleasures are not intentional, Brentano’s thesis—the claim that all mental states are intentional—is false. This implication would be troubling for Representationalism about the mind.
Zoom link: https://waikato.zoom.us/j/86164870661