Journal of Philosophy of Emotion
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Welcome to the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion (JPE) podcast. The JPE is a bi-annual academic journal that focuses on the philosophy of emotions, including interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. This podcast provides audio presentations of the articles published in the JPE. Please note that all works are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Deed. Please feel free to copy and paste our RSS feed link to your RSS reader to subscribe for updates on future releases.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Academic symposia make emotion legible through sustained arguments about knowledge, value, agency, trauma and romantic love.
Journal of Philosophy of Emotion Podcast turns academic exchange into a listening format, with book symposia moving through criticism, counterargument and author replies rather than conversational hosting.
Boredom gets a defense and a rebuttal; your restless finger may want to stay.
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A careful, readable account of how emotions, reasons, and norms meet in ethical judgment.
Emotions, Reasons, and Norms argues against treating reason and feeling as clean opposites. Evan Simpson uses fear, sympathy, respect, and cruelty to show that emotional responses can have a cognitive basis and still answer to wider standards.
A focused argument for treating contempt as defensible only in its narrower form.
Ronald de Souza frames the question well: can contempt be redeemed, or does it stay morally suspect no matter how carefully it is handled? The strongest part of the piece is the distinction between ordinary contempt and strong contempt, and the argument that the latter carries…
A careful symposium on whether emotions shape culture, cognition, and moral life.
This episode follows a symposium on The Emotional Mind and keeps its focus on how emotion shapes culture, cognition, and moral judgment. It stays with the central dispute over whether emotions should be tested for correctness or treated as part of human life through their…
A clear argument for anger as judgment and sanction, with apology as a path toward reasonable forgiveness.
The piece frames anger as more than heat or impulse: it becomes a judgment that wrong has been done, a way of saying guilt is due, and a sanction that keeps the wrong answerable.
A careful dispute over frustration, negative emotions, and boredom.
Andreas Elpidera is at his best when he keeps frustration as a worldly event separate from frustration as an emotional state, then uses that split to test what aversive phenomenology can actually prove.
A grave, exacting case for grief as duty, careful enough to keep its counterarguments in view.
The argument asks a narrow but consequential question: when, if ever, grief becomes something owed instead of merely felt. It draws the parallel with falling in love, then refuses to flatten the two into the same thing, which keeps the reasoning from sliding into sentiment.
A patient case for how unpleasantness, distance, and ambivalence can still propel the good life.
The episode frames boredom, frustration, and anticipation as part of a larger case for the good life. It is most persuasive when it sets the value of unpleasant experience in art against its value in ordinary life, and when it notes that some things only make sense in hindsight…
A careful, concept-heavy discussion of grief, duty, and self-knowledge.
Part 1 of the 2022 Summer Podcast Edition gives Michael Colby's Grief: A Philosophical Guide a steady, careful hearing. It moves through mortality, the duty to grieve, self-knowledge, and a comparison with falling in love, then closes by weighing pain's status without pretending…
Real photography work, coffee-chat pace.
Camera talk with creator-side chaos.
Photography advice for seeing again.
Practical photography advice with story in mind.
Warm shop talk for documentary photographers.
The Journal of Philosophy of Emotion Podcast opens with the 2021 Volume 3, Issue 1 Summer Podcast Edition and Michael Brady’s article, “Emotion, The Basics,” published June 15, 2025.
June 22, 2025, sets the scene.
The Journal of Philosophy of Emotion presents a book symposium around Rikke A.
Ronald de Souza asks whether contempt can ever be morally acceptable.
Part 1 opens the 2022 Volume 4, Issue 1 summer podcast edition with Michael Colby’s Grief: A Philosophical Guide.
Journal of Philosophy of Emotion Podcast: JPE Book Symposium on The Emotional Mind, The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition, Part 1, published June 22, 2025, opens with Stephen T.
This episode reviews Cheshire Calhoun's book 'Doing Valuable Time', exploring her arguments about meaningful living, the distinction between primary and entailed time spending, and the emotional dimensions of depression and hope.
The episode continues with grief treated as a philosophical problem of obligation.
This episode treats boredom, frustration, and anticipation as states that can move a life toward the good.
JPE Book Symposium: The Emotional Mind, Part 2, published June 22, 2025, centers on Stephen T.
Anger does more than judge wrongdoing.
Journal of Philosophy of Emotion Podcast: JPE Book Symposium, Part 2 centers on Alicia LaGuardia LoBianco's "Emotions Under Trauma" and Dina Mendonca's commentary on Michael S.
The frame is plainly textual.
The episode pushes back on a hard split between reason and emotion.
Part 2 is a reply, and a careful one.