Нов български университет - Semiotics and Philosophy

Anita Kasabova

1.Memory and Imagination

 

Aims:

 

Course requirements:

calculated on the base of participation in class, as well as on students’ written work and the exam.

 

Learning outcomes:

 

Course plan:

CLASS

1

Why study memory and the imagination? Course overview

lecture

2

 

2

Memory: the notion and its history. From classical Greek thinkers to recent memory research

 

lecture

 

2

3

Memory theaters: why ancient rhetoric is the art of memory

lecture

2

4

Memory systems in cognitive science

Memory and the imagination in humans and animals

lecture

2

5

Personal memory, episodic memory and eyewitness testimony

lecture

2

6

Memory distortions; from false memories to cognitive dissonance

lecture

2

 

7

Mental time travel: Michaelian’s (2016) theory of memory knowledge

 

lecture

 

2

 

 

8

Memory and time perception: how do we hear a melody? Do we experience temporal passage?

Deadline for papers on topics relating to

memory

 

 

lecture

 

 

2

 

9

Feedback and review of corrected papers Students’ feedback on first part of course. Discussion

 

seminar

 

2

10

Imagination: the notion and its history Classical Greek thinkers on phantasia

lecture

2

11

Mental imagery: from Descartes ‘mental imagination’ to debates in cognitive science

lecture

2

12

Divagations of the imagination: illusion, hallucination and delusion

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2

13

Imagination in young children: from monsters and imaginary friends to future thinking

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2

 

14

Mental time travel revisited: remembering and / or imagining the future

Deadline for papers on topics relating to the imagination

 

seminar

 

2

 

15

Feedback and review of corrected papers. General discussion. Students’ feedback on course.

 

seminar

 

2

 

Bibliography (relevant articles will be available on Moodle for each lecture, except free online resources)

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~scanlab/papers/2003_Schacter_SevenSinsSelf.pdf

B., 356, 1505-1515.

 

2.Moral Emotions

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Course requirements:

 

Learning outcomes:

 

Course plan:

CLASS

1

What are moral emotions? How are emotions related to morality? Course overview

lecture

2

2

‘Shame’ in Ancient Greece and Rome

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2

3

Shame and guilt: philosophical theories

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2

4

Shame and guilt: sociological perspectives

lecture

2

 

5

Shame & guilt as affects and emotions: views from psychoanalytic & clinical psychology

 

lecture

 

2

 

6

Shame & guilt as self-conscious emotions:

recent views from social & clinical psychology

 

lecture

 

2

7

Moral emotions in children and adolescents: developmental perspectives

lecture

2

8

Shame and guilt in cross-cultural & anthropological studies

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2

 

9

Moral emotions in cross-cultural & linguistic studies: Chinese conceptualizations of shame

Deadline for papers on shame and/or guilt

 

lecture

 

2

10

Shame and shaming: social dimensions of moral emotion

lecture

2

 

11

Analysing shame narratives in different cultures

 

workshop

 

2

12

Moral emotions in social media: how have expressions of emotions changed due to technology?

workshop

2

13

‘Positive’ moral emotions: respect, gratitude and well-being

lecture

2

14

Discussion of students’ blogs on moral emotion

workshop

2

 

15

Feedback and review of corrected papers. General discussion. Students’ feedback on course.

 

seminar

 

2

 

Bibliography (relevant articles will be available on Moodle for each lecture, except free online resources.)

<http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/march/andy-crouch-gospel-in-age-of-public shame.html?paging=off%22%20onClick=%22return%20trackclick_temp(event,’265810’,%20’T he+Return+of+Shame’);&start=3 >

Self-Evaluation: Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality. Springer: Dordrecht, 193-212

<http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167214540724>

<https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame/transcript?language=en>

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ddl/articlesCopy/LiWangFischerOrganiztnShame.CogEmotn2004.      P

<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bright-side-of-internet-shaming/      >

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar- jon-ronson>

 

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