“What am I doing when I laugh at others?”
Talk
Professor Lucy O’Brien, UCL and Editor of Mind
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Event date
Friday 18 March 2022, 6.15pm to 7.45pm
Location
In-person only
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture
Human beings are creatures of feeling that live in social relations with each other. Lucy O'Brien wants to bring into view kinds of social acts that are aimed at inducing feeling in others. In this talk she will focus on acts of laughing at others missteps or failures, and consider how we should think about such acts. Lucy will argue that many of our laughings at others are aimed at making others feel socially diminished, and will try better to understand how they can do that. However, Lucy will also explore a number of other things we do when we laugh at another.
About the speaker
Professor Lucy O’Brien is Richard Wollheim Chair of Philosophy, UCL and Editor of Mind