Dans le cadre des ateliers du GRIN, vous êtes convié.es à la conférence d’Emanuela Carta (Université technique de Graz, KU Leuven) intitulée « Rethinking Consent as Affective Approval ». La conférence aura lieu le 13 février 2026, de 10h00 à 12h00, dans la salle 422 du département de philosophie de l’Université de Montréal, située au 2910, boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, à Montréal, au Québec.

La conférence sera également diffusée sur Zoom via le lien suivant (ID de réunion : 266 439 5811; code secret : 454185).

Résumé

Recent debates in feminist philosophy have expressed growing dissatisfaction with the dominant understanding of consent as a form of permission. While some have responded by supplementing consent with additional normative criteria for ethical intimate encounters, others have explored the possibility of reconceptualizing consent.

In this talk, I pursue this latter strategy by developing an account of consent as affective approval: a sui generis emotion experienced upon recognizing something as right. On this view, consent is not primarily a speech act or a decision, but a form of emotive endorsement, which should not be confused with enthusiasm or desire.

I then explore the relationship between affective approval, agency, and autonomy, suggesting that the proposed affective account of consent may help secure the possibility of consent under conditions of partial autonomy.