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DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed to a later date. Please check bac
 k soon for the updated date.\n\nThe Jarislowsky Chair will be hosting Virg
 inie Simoneau-Gilbert\, a PhD candidate from Oxford University for a WIP s
 ession on January 31 2025 from 3:30-5:00PM.\n\nPlease write to julia.houwe
 n [at] mcgill.ca to confirm attendance and to receive a copy of the draft 
 that will be discussed.\n\nVirginie will discuss a draft of an upcoming pa
 per titled 'Empathy in Animals: Its Epistemic Moral Relevance and Limitati
 ons'. See the abstract below:\n\nEmotional contagion\, which consists of c
 atching others’ emotions\, has been observed in infants and most species o
 f social mammals and birds. It is often considered a very primitive form o
 f empathy by psychologists and ethologists. In this paper\, I take up the 
 challenge of providing an account of its epistemic relevance to morality. 
 More precisely\, I argue that basic empathy like emotional contagion plays
  an epistemic role. Empathetic animals can have access to the badness of o
 thers’ suffering although they cannot entertain a moral proposition like “
 Suffering is bad” and directly evaluate the suffering of others as bad. A 
 creature’s emotional contagion is morally relevant in an epistemic way in 
 virtue of three components: (1) the intentional object of her empathy is a
 nother individual in a state of suffering\, (2) she suffers in tune with t
 he sufferer\, and (3) this feeling allows her to have access to the badnes
 s of others’ suffering. No other criterion\, like motivation to help\, is 
 needed to access this moral fact.\n
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DTEND:20250131T220000Z
LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: WIP session: Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert
URL:/philosophy/channels/event/postponed-wip-session-v
 irginie-simoneau-gilbert-361801
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