Emotions and Understanding

Wittgensteinian Perspectives
2009. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-20144-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gustafsson, Y.

Kronqvist, C.

McEachrane, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Wittgensteinian Perspectives on the Philosophy Of Emotion - Introducing the Chapters of this Anthology; Y.Gustafsson, C.Kronqvist& M.McEachrane Wittgenstein's Commonsense Realism about the Mind; A.Crary Wittgenstein on Emotion; J.Schulte The Conceptual Framework for the Investigation of Emotions; P.M.S.Hacker Emotion-Philosophy-Science; P.Hutchinson Capturing Emotional Thoughts - The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; M.McEachrane The Self and the Emotions; J.V.Canfield What's in a Smile?; L.Hertzberg Emotion, Expression and Conversation; D.Cockburn Illusions of Empathy; Y.Gustafsson The Fiction of Paradox: Really Feeling for Anna Karenina; D.Moyal-Sharrock On The Pursuit of Happiness; D.Richter Our Struggles with Reality; C.Kronqvist Extreme Aversive Emotions – A Wittgensteinian Approach to Dread; R.Read Index

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN V. CANFIELD is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada
ALICE CRARY is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
DAVID COCKBURN is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales Lampeter, UK
PETER M.S. HACKER is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, UK
LARS HERTZBERG is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
DANIÈLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK
DUNCAN RICHTER is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, USA
RUPERT READ is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
JOACHIM SCHULTE teaches at the University of Zürich, Switzerland