Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

3 days ago

I feel bad for my friends at Adelaide University. Philosophy has been reduced to 8 generic topics that every student must now take. And because it's all laid down as recorded lectures, topics will be harder to update in the future to reflect new ideas or relevant issues.

Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social

3 days ago

People who haven't been in a classroom for a decade making a pretence of pedagogical innovation when it's just cynical cost cutting in the domain of teaching and learning. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adelaide University students and staff to stage sit-in over ‘travesty’ of fewer in-person lectures

Students unhappy about lack of course choice and flexibility, as they await clarification about which subjects will move online

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

3 days ago

The attitudinal approach to emotion is defended by Deonna and Teroni (2012), Jonathan Mitchell (2021) and myself to some extent. It's the latest iteration of a debate that's lasted more than a century about to reconcile the meaningful and bodily aspects of emotions.

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

3 days ago

What, besides government policies, do you think is causing the apparent decline in the numbers of humanities students?

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

I outline all this in 'The double intentionality of emotional experience' (EJP, 2017) philpapers.org/rec/COCTDI-2 and elaborate it a bit more in ch4 of The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states. 6/6

Tom Cochrane, The Double Intentionality of Emotional Experience - PhilPapers

I argue that while the feeling of bodily responses is not necessary to emotion, these feelings contribute significant meaningful content to everyday emotional experience. Emotional bodily feelings rep...

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

But most of all, we can refute the silly claim philosophers sometimes make that moods lack content. All moods present the overall condition or affordance pattern of your body. In this way we maintain the most important claim about the mind- that all mental states have content. 5/6

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

Meanwhile, bodily patterns/feelings can be generated in several ways. E.g. by unconscious appraisals, by depression, by drugs, by a series of emotions that leave a lingering trace. Given this, we can classify moods into a few sub-types. 4/6

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

Response patterns/feelings by themselves present to us a sense of affordances: How one is disposed to respond to things. This explains the generality of moods, or why moods can seem to be about everything. You feel vulnerable, ebullient, under pressure etc... 3/6

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

In emotions, our feeling of the response pattern allows us to judge coping potential (e.g. can I face this threat) which plays a major role in distinguishing emotions like sadness and anger. It's this feeling component that then explains moods... 2/6

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

4 days ago

quote-skeeting because this is an issue I've worked on a lot. Moods/emotions can be distinguished in a way that is in retrospect obvious. It comes down to the fact that most emotional episodes involve both a cognitive appraisal and a pattern of bodily responses... 1/6

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social

5 days ago

What's the difference between emotions & moods?

While old (1994), this book dives into it.

Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).

psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...

Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social

6 days ago

The related institute of art and ideas website also doesn't pay authors for its articles, while also charging people to read those articles via subscriptions.