Cycles de conférences de Catherine Rioux en Suisse

Catherine Rioux donnera un cycle de conférences en Suisse dans la semaine du 9 mars 2026 à l’invitation du groupe de recherche Thumos de l’Université de Genève et de l’Université de Neuchâtel. 

La professeure Rioux présentera 2 conférences ayant pour titre "Self-Respect at the Margins: When Hope Is All That Is Left.", s'inscrivant dans son programme de recherche sur les questions normatives liées à l'espoir.

Résumé:
Recognition self-respect is often defined as the respect we are owed simply in virtue of our humanity. Evaluative self-respect, by contrast, is thought to be earned by meeting our personal standards of what makes life worthwhile and rationally judging that we have done so. This latter sense of our worth as the particular person we are is especially valuable: it is closely tied to our identity and thus seems capable of shielding us from pernicious external influences. Because it engages our capacity for rational self-evaluation, it also helps direct our agential powers. Accepting these ideas on the value of self-respect, my aim in this paper is to cast doubt on the centrality of positive judgments or beliefs in evaluative self-respect. I argue, more specifically, that hope – and not belief – is the minimally positive attitude one can take toward meeting one’s standards while still enjoying the protection that evaluative self-respect affords. I further suggest that hope helps us avoid the twin pitfalls of complacency and excessive harshness toward ourselves, often described as ways of losing evaluative self-respect. The key idea is that the norms of rational hope determine the appropriate degree of demandingness in the standards a self-respecting person should endorse.

Thumos est un groupe de recherche de premier plan consacré à la philosophie des émotions et de la normativité. Son séminaire accueille régulièrement des figures internationales majeures; parmi les invités de cet hiver figurent notamment Gopal Sreenivasan et Ralf Bader.

Pour toute demande d’information, veuillez écrire à l’adresse suivante: catherine.rioux@fp.ulaval.ca.