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DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. \n\nPlease check
  back soon for the updated date.\n\n \n\nThe Jarislowsky Chair will be hos
 ting Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert\, a PhD candidate from Oxford University fo
 r a WIP session on January 31 2025 from 3:30-5:00PM.\n\nPlease write to ju
 lia.houwen [at] mcgill.ca to confirm attendance and to receive a copy of t
 he draft that will be discussed.\n\nVirginie will discuss a draft of an up
 coming paper titled 'Empathy in Animals: Its Epistemic Moral Relevance and
  Limitations'. See the abstract below:\n\n\n	Emotional contagion\, which co
 nsists of catching others’ emotions\, has been observed in infants and mos
 t species of social mammals and birds. It is often considered a very primi
 tive form of empathy by psychologists and ethologists. In this paper\, I t
 ake up the challenge of providing an account of its epistemic relevance to
  morality. More precisely\, I argue that basic empathy like emotional cont
 agion plays an epistemic role. Empathetic animals can have access to the b
 adness of others’ suffering although they cannot entertain a moral proposi
 tion like “Suffering is bad” and directly evaluate the suffering of others
  as bad. A creature’s emotional contagion is morally relevant in an episte
 mic way in virtue of three components: (1) the intentional object of her e
 mpathy is another individual in a state of suffering\, (2) she suffers in 
 tune with the sufferer\, and (3) this feeling allows her to have access to
  the badness of others’ suffering. No other criterion\, like motivation to
  help\, is needed to access this moral fact\n\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250131
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LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855\,
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: WIP session: Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert- 'Empathy in Anim
 als: Its Epistemic Moral Relevance and Limitations'
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 ssion-virginie-simoneau-gilbert-empathy-animals-its-epistemic-moral-releva
 nce-and-361749
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