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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Philosophy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Hilla Jacobson
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof Hilla Jacobson
Course/Module description:
Consider the following experiences: a sharp headache, a gustatory experience of beer, a visual experience of desert landscape. The experience of pain involves an unpleasant feeling – hurtfulness. The phenomenal character of pains – the way it is like to undergo them – is "negative" (it involves "valence") and there is a sense in which pains are bad. Yet, what about gustatory and visual experiences? According to a recent hypothesis, the sensible world, with its colors, odors, tastes and shapes, is not given to us in an evaluatively neutral, inert manner; rather, our perceptual interactions with it are infused with valence. Thus, a subject can see (in the literal, visual sense of "seeing") something or someone in a positive or negative manner.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to carry out independent research on valenced perception
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
In the first part of the course, we will focus on the case-study of pain. Among the topics to be addressed:
Pain as a perception
The sensory dimension of pain and the valenced dimension of pain
Pain and motivation
The normative aspect of pains
Theories of pain (Evaluativism, Imperativism, First-order Desire Theory and Second-order Desire Theory, Mere-Feel Theory)
In the second part of the course, we will generalize the discussion to experiences of other sorts. Among the topics to be discussed:
The notion of Intrinsically Valenced Perception
Valenced (/Emotional) Perception vs. Perceptual Emotion
The relations between the Sensory and Valenced Aspects of Perception
Different sense-modalities: Gustatory, Olfactory, Auditory, Visual
Theories of Valenced Perception
The Role of Valence in Perception
Perceptual Valence and Decision-Making
Required Reading:
Aydede, M. (2019) "Pain." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query&eq;pain.
Aydede, M. and Fulkerson, M. (2014). "Affect: representationalists’ headache." Philosophical Studies, 170, pp. 175–198.
Bain, D. 2013. “What Makes Pains Unpleasant?” Philosophical Studies 166(1), pp. 69-89.
Bain, D. 2017a. "Why Take Painkillers?" Noûs 53(2): 462-490.
Bain, D. 2017b. "Evaluativist Accounts of Pain's Unpleasantness." In Jennifer Corns (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain. London: Routledge.
Benbaji, H. (Manuscript). “Evaluativism and the Disunity of Bodily and Mental Pains.”
Corns, J. "Unpleasantness, motivational oomph, and painfulness." Mind & Language 29, no. 2 (2014): 238-254.
Carruthers, P. 2018. "Valence and Value." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97(3): 658-680.
Carruthers, P. 2022. "On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Cutter, B. and Tye, M. 2011. “Tracking Representationalism and the Painfulness of Pain.” Philosophical Issues 21, pp. 90–109
Cutter, B. and Tye, M. 2014. “Pains and Reasons: Why is it Rational to Kill the Messenger.” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 256, pp. 423-433.
Fulkerson, Matthew. 2020. "Emotional Perception." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98(1): 16-30.
Jacobson, H. 2013. “Killing the Messenger: Representationalism and the Painfulness of Pain.” Philosophical Quarterly, 63, pp. 509-519.
Jacobson, H. 2017. "Not Only a Messenger: Towards an Attitudinal-Representational Theory of Pain." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Jacobson, H. 2021. ,The Role of Valence in Perception: An ARTistic Treatment." Philosophical Review.
Lebrecht, Sophie, Moshe Bar, Lisa F. Barrett, and Michael J. Tarr. 2012. "Micro-Valences: Perceiving Affective Valence in Everyday Objects." Frontiers in Psychology 3: 107.
De Vignemont, F. 2021. "Fifty Shades of Affective Colouring of Perception." Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Roberts, T. 2021. "Awful Noises: Evaluativism and the Affective Phenomenology of Unpleasant Auditory Experience." Philosophical Studies.
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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 25 %
Project work 75 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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