Thinking about Feeling Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions

Name: Thinking about Feeling Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions
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ISBN: 9780195153170

ISBN-10: 0195153170

ISBN-13: 9780195153170

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert C. Solomon

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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…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction




Emotions, Physiology, and Intentionality



Primitive Emotions




Emotion: Biological Fact or Social Construction?




Embodied Emotions




Emotion, Appraisal, and Cognition



Emotions: What I Know, What I'd Like to Think I Know, and What I'd Like to Think




Emotions, Thoughts, and Feelings: Emotions as Engagements with the World




Emotions and Feelings



Emotion, Feeling, and Knowledge of the World




Subjectivity and Emotion




Emotions and Rationality



Emotions, Rationality, and Mind/Body




Some Considerations about Intellectual Desire and Emotions




Emotions, Action, and Freedom



Emotion and Action




Emotions and Freedom




Emotion and Value



Emotions as Judgments of Value and Importance




Feelings That Matter




Perturbations of Desire: Emotions Disarming Morality in the "Great Song" of The Mahabharata




On Theories of Emotion



Is Emotion a Natural Kind?




Emotion as a Subtle Mental Mode




Enough Already with "Theories of the Emotions"



Bibliography


Index