Emotion, Self and Language Group
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The Emotion, Self and Language research group conducts philosophical research aimed at better understanding the nature of human experience and our place in the world as emotional, intelligent and self-aware agents. Through their work, its members explore a range of topics: the nature of emotions and their role in the pursuit of the good life; the effects of emotions on our perception of ourselves and the world; the use of concepts and mental representations in language and thought; the character of meaning in creative acts and projects; the influence of emotions on language; and how emotional and cultural influences inform our self-understanding. The group’s work invites interdisciplinary dialogue across many disciplines including philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, linguistics and cognitive science.
Key Research Areas
- Philosophy of the Self
- Negative emotions and their role in the good life
- Metaphor and fiction
- Embodied cognition and abstract concepts
- Philosophy of cognitive science
- Philosophy of language
- The rationality of emotion
- Politics, culture, and personal identity
- Agency and games
- Art and cognition
Current Projects
- Philosophy and moral psychology of boredom
- Meaning in the Arts and Criticism
- Stoicism and the good life
- Killjoy
- Experience, gender and sexual violability
Recent Publications
- Aavitsland, V.L. 2019. “The Failure of Judgment. Disgust in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Judgment.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33(3): 537-550
- Dove, G. O. (2022). Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind: Rethinking Grounded Cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Dove, G. O. (2023). Rethinking the role of Language in Embodied Cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 378, 1-9.
- Elpidorou, A. 2020. Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Can Lead Us to the Good Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Elpidorou, A. (Ed.) 2022. The Moral Psychology of Boredom. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Elpidorou, A. 2023. "Jadedness: A philosophical analysis." Philosophical Studies, 180: 567–590.
- Elpidorou, A., & J. Gibson. 2022. “Really Boring Art.” Ergo 8: 30.
- Elpidorou, A. 2021. “Boredom, Human Psychology, and Immortality.” American Philosophical Quarterly, 58 (4): 259-372.
- Gibson, J. and H.H. Kim 2021. “Lyric Self-Expression.” In Sonia Sedivy (ed.) Art, Representation, & Make-Believe. Routledge.
- Trujillo, G.M. Jr. forthcoming. “Ancient Cynics on Boredom: Only the Boring Are Bored,” in: The History of Philosophy of Boredom, eds. Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco, Routledge.
- Trujillo, G.M. Jr. Forthcoming “Inward Turn, Outward Spurn: Positive Psychology Undermines Stoicism,” Southwest Philosophical Studies.
Team
Andreas Elpidorou, Professor, Coordinator
andreas.elpidorou@louisville.edu | View Faculty Profile
Vilde Lid Aavitsland, Assistant Professor
vilde.aavitsland@louisville.edu
Guy Dove, Professor
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John Gibson, Professor
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Glenn “Boomer” Trujillo, Jr., Assistant Professor