{"id":8072,"date":"2017-11-03T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:24:26","slug":"lauren-ware-podcast-on-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/03\/lauren-ware-podcast-on-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Ware podcast on fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/ware.html\">Dr Lauren Ware<\/a>, Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, has been interviewed this week on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ian-olasov\">The Owl<\/a>, the postcast of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bkpp.tumblr.com\">Brooklyn Public Philosophers<\/a> forum, to discuss the philosophy of fear.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the Brooklyn area of the US to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\">Brooklyn Public Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, posted on 31 October 2017,\u00a0 explores the emotion of fear and how it shapes our understanding of risk and danger.<\/p>\n<p>The interview examines fear as a rational emotional response, and goes on to explore the cultural history behind Halloween as a celebrated holiday event.\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Negative emotions, like fear, get in the way of accurate risk assessment,&#8217; explains Lauren.\u00a0&#8216;When we\u2019re afraid, it makes fearsome events seem more likely to happen\u2026 fear makes us bad at imaginative tasks, [so] the ability to imagine possibilities is restricted.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The full episode is available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ian-olasov\/episode-9-halloween-2017-lauren-ware-on-fear-rationality-and-halloween\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ian-olasov\/episode-9-halloween-2017-lauren-ware-on-fear-rationality-and-halloween<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in Department of Philosophy, has been interviewed this week on The Owl, the postcast of the Brooklyn Public Philosophers forum, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/03\/lauren-ware-podcast-on-fear\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":8076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}