THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF EMOTION

Klappentext This Handbook presents thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from the most notable writers on philosophy of emotion today. Anyone working on the nature of emotion! its history! or its relation to reason! self! value! or art! whether at the level of research or advanced study! will find the book an unrivalled resource and a fascinating read. Zusammenfassung This Handbook presents thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from the most notable writers on philosophy of emotion today. Anyone working on the nature of emotion, its history, or its relation to reason, self, value, or art, whether at the level of research or advanced study, will find the book an unrivalled resource and a fascinating read.

Autorentext
Peter Goldie was The Samuel Hall Chair of Philosophy at The University of Manchester. He is the author of The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), On Personality (London: Routledge, 2004), and co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (London: Routledge, 2009). He is editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), co-editor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Inhalt

• Introduction

• Part 1: What Emotions Are

• 1: John Deigh: Concepts of Emotion in Modern Philosophy and Psychology

• 2: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev: The Thing Called Emotion

• 3: Roddy Cowie: Describing the Forms of Emotional Colouring that Pervade Everyday Life

• 4: Ronald de Sousa: The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science

• Part 2: The History of Emotion

• 5: Anthony Price: Emotions in Plato and Aristotle

• 6: Christopher Gill: Stoicism and Epicureanism

• 7: Peter King: Emotion in Medieval Thought

• 8: Kate Abramson: A Sentimentalist defence of Contempt, Shame, and Disdain

• 9: Anthony Hatzimoysis: Emotions in Heidegger and Sartre

• 10: Louis C. Charland: Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from History of Psychopathology

• Part 3: Emotions and Practical Reason

• 11: Jon Elster: Emotional Choice and Rational Choice

• 12: Sabine Döring: Why be Emotional?

• 13: Bennett Helm: Emotions and Motivation: Reconsidering Neo-Jamesian Accounts

• 14: Christine Tappolet: Emotions and Motivation: The Case of Fear

• Part 4: Emotions and the Self

• 15: Matthew Ratcliffe: The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life

• 16: David Pugmire: Saying It

• 17: Adam Morton: Epistemic Emotions

• 18: Amelie Rorty: A Plea for Ambivalence

• 19: R. Peter Hobson: Emotion, Self/Other-Awareness, and Autism: A Developmental Perspective

• 20: Michael Stocker: Intellectual and Other Non-Standard Emotions

• Part 5: Emotion, Value, and Morality

• 21: Kevin Mulligan: Emotions and Values

• 22: Jerome Neu: An Ethics of Emotion?

• 23: Jesse Prinz: The Moral Emotions

• 24: Patricia Greenspan: Learning Emotions and Ethics

• 25: Robert C. Roberts: Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation

• 26: Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson: Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect

• Part 6: Emotion, Art, and Aesthetics

• 27: Derek Matravers: Expression in the Arts

• 28: Susan Feagin: Affects in Appreciation

• 29: Matthew Kieran: Emotions, Art, and Immorality

• 30: Jenefer Robinson: Emotional Responses to Music: What are they? How do they work? And are they relevant to aesthetic appreciation?