Published: 08.08.2025
(Not) Caring to Know: Vice Epistemology meets Situated Affectivity. This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted by the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice from September 3rd - 5th.
Encountering the world is not a dispassionate affair. Our emotions shape and condition how we gain knowledge and understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Our doubts can be laden with fear, our beliefs motivated by anger, our understanding may be tempered with love — more generally, our intellectual activities are molded by our embodied affective states.
What role do these states play in the lives of epistemically vicious agents? What role do fear, and anger, but possibly also hope and joy, play in the denial of evidence about climate change? How does hatred for marginalized social groups impact the prejudiced person’s testimonial practices and communicative exchanges, both offline and online? How can shame and envy enable and sustain echo-chambers and online bubbles?
To ensure that not only these questions are addressed, the present conference fosters a dialogue between scholars from a range of fields like virtue and vice epistemology, social epistemology, feminist and standpoint epistemology, situated affectivity, affect studies, 4E cognition, political philosophy of mind, phenomenology of emotions, environmental ethics, science communication, and more.
More Information: Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value
September 3rd — 5th, 2025
Main Venue: Room 03004, Historical building of UPCE, Czechoslovak Legion Square (nám. Cs. Legií 565, Pardubice)
