During our last class before break, we had a smaller size, leading to even more intimacy than usual. We started with our customary mood checks, in which we…
Chapter 4 In last week’s class we discussed Ahmed’s chapter 4 in The Promise of Happiness. Laura started the class off by presenting to us the idea of…
Summary of 11/14 We began class with the mood check, as usual, before moving on to a discussion of the final project. We talked through expectations for a…
We begin with talking about final project, and Hunter is going to take us to a Martial Art Workshop. We talk about the first Chapter, the Happy Object,…
Conversation Summary – 9/24: Barrett Ch. 2-3, 5 We began class with our usual mood checks. Subsequently, we spent quite a long time discussing our blogs: what topics…
We began our class with Mood Check, as is customary. Those that did not have the opportunity to give a brief one-sentence summary of their Second Blog post…
As is customary, we began the class with Mood Check. We then proceeded to discuss the assigned reading: the introduction to, and the first chapter of Down Girl,…
Philosophy of Emotions 10/8 Summary So, the first half of last class we talked about possible blog topics and Dr. Gallegos highlighted the importance of really finding something…
Here, I will summarize our discussion on the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Lisa Barrett’s book “How Emotions are Made.” In the introduction, Barrett describes the Classical View…