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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Philosophy @ UWS Seminars 2015</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dr Robert Sinnerbrink
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Title:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><em><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">Empathic
Ethics: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving Images</span></b></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Date/Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Wednesday May 20, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Abstract </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">Can movies ‘do ethics’? Some of the most innovative philosophical engagement with cinema and ethics has come from phenomenological and cognitivist perspectives in film theory. This
trend reflects a welcome re-engagement with cinema as a medium with the potential for ethical transformation, that is, with the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience. This challenges the sceptical view according to which cinema’s power of affective
and emotional engagement reproduces ideological biases through viewer manipulation. My paper explores the phenomenological turn in film theory (with its focus on affective, empathic, and embodied responses to cinema), emphasizing the ethical implications of
phenomenological approaches to affect and empathy, emotion and evaluation, care and responsibility. The oft-criticised ‘subjectivism’ of phenomenology, I argue, can be supplemented by recent cognitivist approaches that highlight the complex forms of affective
response, emotional engagement, and moral allegiance at work in our experience of moving images. At the same time, the cognitivist temptation towards reductionism or inadequate accounts of aesthetic experience can be avoided by way of ‘thick’ phenomenological
description and hermeneutic interpretation. I explore this exciting crossover between phenomenological and cognitivist approaches in regard to recent films that have attracted critical attention from both perspectives. My claim is that an ‘empathic ethics’
is at work in many films: film provides a powerful means of enacting the affective temporal dynamic between empathy and sympathy, emotional engagement and multiple perspective-taking. Taken together, these elements of cinematic ethics offer experientially
rich, context-sensitive, and ethically singular forms of imaginative engagement in social situations that reveal the complexities of a cultural-historical world. I elaborate this thesis by analysing a key sequence from Ashgar Farhadi’s
<i>A Separation</i> (2011), a film that offers a striking case study in cinematic ethics.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Bio</span></strong><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Robert Sinnerbrink is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of
<i>New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images</i> (Continuum, 2011), <i>Understanding Hegelianism</i> (Acumen, 2007), and is a member of the editorial board of the journal
<i>Film-Philosophy</i>. He has published numerous articles on the relationship between film and philosophy in journals such as
<i>Angelaki</i>, <i>Film-Philosophy</i>, <i>Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies</i>,
<i>Screen</i>, and <i>Screening the Past</i>. <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background:white">He is currently completing a book entitled
<i>Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film </i>(Routledge, 2015).</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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