| Description |
1 online resource (x, 297 pages) |
| Series |
Series in affective science |
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Series in affective science.
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| Contents |
Emotions, physiology, and intentionality. Primitive emotions / John Deigh -- Emotion : biological fact or social construction / Jenefer Robinson -- Embodied emotions / Jesse Prinz -- Emotion, appraisal, and cognition. Emotions : what I know, what I'd like to think I know, and what I'd like to think / Ronald de Sousa -- Emotions, thoughts, and feelings : emotions as engagements with the world / Robert C. Solomon -- Emotions and feelings. Emotion, feeling, and knowledge of the world / Peter Goldie -- Subjectivity and emotion / Cheshire Calhoun -- Emotions and rationality. Emotions, rationality, and mind/body / Patricia Greenspan -- Some considerations about intellectual desire and emotions / Michael Stocker -- Emotions, action, and freedom. Emotion and action / Jon Elster -- Emotions and freedom / Jerome Neu -- Emotion and value. Emotions as judgments of value and importance / Martha Nussbaum -- Feelings that matter / Annette Baier -- Perturbations of desire : emotions disarming morality in the "Great song" of The Mahabharata / Purushottama Bilimoria -- On theories of emotion. Is emotion a natural kind? / Paul E. Griffiths -- Emotion as a subtle mental mode / Aaron Ben-Zeev -- Enough already with "Theories of emotions" / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty |
| Summary |
Annotation Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom. In recent years Anglo-American philosophers have rediscovered and placed new emphasis on this very old discipline. The view that emotions are ripe for philosophical analysis has been supported by a considerable number of excellent publications. In this volume, Robert Solomon brings together some of the best Anglo-American philosophers now writing on the philosophy of emotion, with chapters from philosophers who have distinguished themselves in the field of emotion research and have interdisciplinary interests, particularly in the social and biological sciences. The reader will find a lively variety of positions on topics such as the nature of emotion, the category of "emotion," the rationality of emotions, the relationship between an emotion and its expression, the relationship between emotion, motivation, and action, the biological nature versus social construction of emotion, the role of the body in emotion, the extent of freedom and our control of emotions, the relationship between emotion and value, and the very nature and warrant of theories of emotion. In addition, this book acknowledges that it is impossible to study the emotions today without engaging with contemporary psychology and the neurosciences, and moreover engages them with zeal. Thus the essays included here should appeal to a broad spectrum of emotion researchers in the various theoretical, experimental, and clinical branches of psychology, in addition to theorists in philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral psychology, and cognitive science, the social sciences, and literary theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emotions (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Emoties.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Solomon, Robert C.
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| ISBN |
9780198034971 |
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0198034970 |
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9780195153170 |
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0195153170 |
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