Thinking About Feeling

Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-515317-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 160 mm

Reihe: Series in Affective Science

Robert Solomon brings together Anglo-American philosophers now writing on the philosophy of emotion who have interdisciplinary interests, particularly in the social sciences. The essays included here should appeal to a broad spectrum of emotion researchers as well as philosophers interested, or at least curious, about their emotions.

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, so the new emphasis on emotion in Anglo-American philosophy is the rediscovery of a discipline that is very old and has always been essential to the "love of wisdom." Today, it has become evident to most

Introduction; PART I: EMOTIONS, PHYSIOLOGY, AND INTENTIONALITY; 1. Primitive Emotions; 2. Emotion: Biological Fact Or Social Construction?; 3. Embodied Emotions; PART II: EMOTION, APPRAISAL, AND COGNITION; 4. Emotions: What I Know, What I'd Like To Think

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solomon, Robert C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Solomon, Robert C. (Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, USA)