Our Angry Times: Can Philosophy Help?
Thursday, October 6, 2022
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CSU 253/4/5
From The Department of Philosophy Nadine B. Andreas Lectures:
Presenter: Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at Duke University.
We live in angry times, in an age of anger. Why is everyone so angry? What lessons can philosophy teach about the uses and misuses of anger?
About the presenter:
Professor Owen Flanagan’s work is in the Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Philosophy. He is the author of more than two dozen of monographs, including How to Do Things with Emotions: Anger and Shame Across Cultures (Princeton University Press 2021), The Geography of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (MIT Press 2011), The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them (Basic 2002). He also wrote many articles on moral psychology, the philosophy of mind, philosophy and addiction, and Chinese and Comparative Philosophy.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Dr. Sun Kyeong Yu
sun.yu@mnsu.edu
