Sabine Döring

Sabine Döring

Sabine Döring is a German philosopher (with a focus on practical philosophy) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Her research interests are ethics and the theory of (practical) rationality with a focus on the theory of emotions, political philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of Robert Musil .

Life

Sabine Döring was born in 1997 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with the thesis Aesthetic Experience as Knowledge of the Ethical. The art theory of Robert Musil and the analytical philosophy doctorate.

In 1998 she was a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley , USA, at the invitation of Sir Professor Bernard Williams . From 1999 to 2004 she was a research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen , and in 2001 she was on leave for a research fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the University of St Andrews , Scotland. In 2005 she qualified as a professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen with the thesis reasons and feelings. To solve the problem of morality . In 2004 she left her assistant position ahead of time to move to King's College London , UK, as a research associate within the EU project HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions) . From 2005 to 2008 Döring was a Research Associate at the University of Manchester , and was on leave in 2007 for a substitute professorship for practical philosophy at the University of Hamburg .

In 2008 she was appointed professor to the chair for philosophy (with a focus on practical philosophy) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. There she was a board member of the Werner Reichart Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) from 2009 to 2019.

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Sabine Döring 2019 at the symposium "Learn to fight" of the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Sabine Döring advocates a cognitive theory of emotions, according to which emotions are indispensable affective evaluations for rational thinking. She coined the term “affective perception” for this analysis of emotions. This means that emotions are analogous to sensory perceptions in that they

• are immediate, i.e. structure complex situations directly with a view to relevant aspects;
• have a non-conceptual content;
• have a phenomenal content;
• Judgments for emotions are neither sufficient nor necessary.

In her work, Sabine Döring examines the implications of emotions as affective perceptions

• for (moral) motivation and justification as well as ability to act (agency) in general;
• for the expression of emotions in art;
• for the role of emotions in political discourse.

Sabine Döring is currently working on a book in which emotions (as affective perceptions) are to be integrated into a conception of rationality as coherence in order to establish a constitutivist metaethical approach.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Aesthetic experience as knowledge of the ethical: Robert Musil's art theory and analytical philosophy. mentis, Paderborn 1999.
• Philosophy of feelings. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009.
• with Thomas Sturm: Crying for Respect and Seduced by Populism? Nationalism as a challenge to the European Project. (expected 2020)

Articles in journals and edited volumes

• Explaining Action by Emotion. In: The Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 53, 2003, pp. 214-230.
• Seeing What to Do: Affective Perception and Rational Motivation. In: Dialectica. Volume 61, 2007, pp. 363-394.
• Why Be Emotional? In: Peter Goldie (Ed.): Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pp. 283-302.
• What is an emotion? Musil's Adverbial Theory. In: The Monist. Volume 97, 2014, 47-65.
• Why Recalcitrant Emotions Are Not Irrational. In: Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd (eds.): Emotion & Value. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, pp. 124-136.
• What's Wrong with Recalcitrant Emotions? From Irrationality to Challenge of Agential Identity. In: Dialectica. Volume 69, 2015, pp. 381-402.
• with Anika Lutz: Beyond Perceptualism. Special issue of the magazine Dialectica 2015.
• with Bahadir Eker: Desires without Guises: Why We Need Not Value What We Want. In: Julien Deonna and Federico Lauria (eds.): The Nature of Desire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
• What Is Expressed When Emotions Are Expressed in Art? In: Graz Philosophical Studies. Volume 96, 2019, pp. 361-380.
• National Pride in a Global World. In: Yearbook Practical Philosophy in a Global Perspective. Volume 4, 2020.
• How Safe Should We Feel? On the Ethics of Fear in the Public Sphere. In: Sebastian Schmidt and Gerhard Ernst (Eds.): Ethics of Belief and Beyond. Understanding Mental Normativity. Routledge, Oxford 2020.

Web links

• Sabine Döring at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen
• Sabine Döring on Twitter
• Crying for respect, seduced by populism? Nationalism as a challenge to the European Project (natcha.eu) , conference (2019)
• Dispute in politics: The time of the lukewarm middle is over , Interview in Deutschlandfunk (2019)
• Emotion and argument , keynote lecture as part of the conference "Learn to fight" of the Federal Agency for Political Education in Cologne (2019)
• Emotions in political discourse: inevitable and indispensable , lecture at the 14th Federal Congress for Civic Education (2019)
• Out of place? Emotions in Politics , Interview in Philosophisches Radio on WDR5 (2019)
• In a word: feelings , in conversation with Michel Friedman (2018)
• Scobel: Sleep of Reason? (2016)
• Night studio: sex or love: where are the feelings? (2009)
• Sternstunde philosophy: philosophy of feelings (2009)