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<div style="text-align: left;">Hello philosophers and friends of philosophy! </div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Next week (after Thanksgiving) we’ll be having TWO talks by Kaitlyn Creasy of CSU San Bernardino. The Thursday talk is meant for the general public, and will be in UC Merced on Main (1635 M Street) with free street and lot parking
nearby. Friday’s talk is for an academic audience (including students!) and will be on campus in COB 129. </div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">As usual, both talks are free and open to the public. If you’re a student at another school or community college faculty, contact me and I can subsidize your parking for the Friday talk. </div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Kaitlyn Creasy (CSU San Bernardino)</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5">How to be Lonely</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">UC Merced on Main: 1635 M Street</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Thursday, December 4, 6-7pm</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Everyone experiences loneliness at some time or other. Even so, some of the situations in which we find ourselves lonely can surprise us. While we might expect to feel lonely in a room full of strangers, for example, we typically
don't expect to feel lonely in the presence of loved ones. To make better sense of the wide variety of circumstances in which loneliness may arise, I begin by exploring several distinct causes of loneliness with the help of concrete (including real-life) examples.
Then, after reflecting on the features of human existence to which loneliness calls our attention, I will suggest that loneliness, although painful, may have positive potential. As an experience that can reveal what and who matters to us, loneliness may offer
opportunities for self-knowledge and meaningful personal transformation, depending on how we relate to it.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Kaitlyn Creasy (CSU San Bernardino)</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5">Loneliness and Emotional Resonance</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">COB 129</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Friday, December 5, 3:30-5pm</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Loneliness is a painful feeling that arises when our desires for recognition or connection are not fulfilled (or are perceived to be unfulfilled). But there are many forms of meaningful recognition and countless forms of connection
that we may need or desire, not all of which can be offered even by those who love and appreciate us.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Building on my work on the importance of particular recognition and affirmation for assuaging loneliness, in this talk I explore what I call deep forms of recognition, affirmation, and personal connection, forms that necessarily
involve emotional engagement or experiences of emotional resonance. I then contend that these deep forms of recognition, affirmation, and connection, when present, play a distinctive role in the amelioration of loneliness: they allow the individual to feel
more at home in her world, in part by allowing her to make (shared) sense of it. Finally, I show that attending to certain of the conditions that make these forms of recognition, affirmation, and connection possible-e.g., shared forms of life and complementary
sensibilities between individuals helps us make sense of cases of loneliness tied to the presence or absence of particular empirical others.</div>
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<div>Dan Hicks</div>
<div>Associate Professor and Chair</div>
<div>Department of Philosophy</div>
<div>University of California, Merced</div>
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