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Source: Université de GenèveUniversité de Genève, 20-21 mai 2011This conference  forms part of the NCCR ‘Affective Dynamics’ project, the aim of which is  to study the temporal dynamics of emotions. In psychology and  philosophy, emotions are traditionally studied without paying much  attention to the relations they bear to the passage of time. This  conference hopes to remedy this lack of attention by presenting a range  of philosophical papers that explore the temporal dynamics of emotion  through studying various types of relations characterizing emotional  life — some essentially temporal in nature, some partially so: among  them explanatory, definitional, justificatory and narrative relations.  We hypothesize that describing these multifarious relations will prove  especially helpful for understanding the nature of single emotional  episodes, as well as the underexplored connections they bear to related  affective phenomena such as sentiments, moods, character traits and  affective dispositions in general. Some of the themes to be covered in  the conference will include:•Emotions and their (logical, temporal) parts•Relations (causal, epistemic, normative) between emotional episodes•Emotional evaluation and re-evaluation•Relations between emotions and emotional dispositions (temperaments, character traits, sentiments, cares, concerns, etc)•Emotions, emotional dispositions and the self (personality, identity)•Emotions, imagination, and mental time travel•Emotions and their place in the mental realm (including their relation to desires, intentions and judgement)•The affective life in general•Narrative and emotion: conceptions of self and self-evaluation in time; understanding emotions through narrative structureConference organisers:Julien Deonna (University of Geneva): julien.deonna@unige.chCain Todd (Lancaster University &#38; University of Fribourg): c.todd@lancaster.ac.ukProgramme:Friday, May 209.30 - 11          Michael Brady (University of Glasgow): “Emotion, attention and re-evaluation“11 - 11.15        Coffee11.15 - 12.45   Adam Morton (University of Alberta): “Emotions with multiple points of view“12.45 - 2          Lunch2 - 3.30            Greg Currie (University of Nottingham): “Emotions under the control of a fiction“3.30 - 3.45       Coffee3.45 - 5.15       Gianfranco Soldati (University of Fribourg): “Self-knowledge and rational unity“Saturday, May 219.30 - 11          Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University): “Virtue and accountability for emotions“11 - 11.15        Coffee11.15 - 12.45   Peter Goldie (University of Manchester): “Emotion as a process: the case of grief“12.45 - 2          Lunch2 - 3.30            Sabine Roeser (Delft University of Technology): “Emotions and moral knowledge“3.30 - 3.45       Coffee3.45 - 5.15       Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge): “Emotions: episodes, or dispositions?