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Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions (Series in Affective Science)
By: Robert C. Solomon (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA - 2004-02-05
312 Pages
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.