Philosophy and the Emotions: A Reader - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1551113716 ISBN 13: 9781551113715

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 1999

Riassunto

While philosophical speculation into the nature and value of emotions is at least as old as the Pre-Socratics, William James' "What is an emotion?" reinvigorated interest in the question. Coming to grips with James' proposals, particularly in the light of subsequent concerns for the difficulties inherent in a so-called private language, led philosophers away from analyses centred on feelings to ones centred on thoughts. Analyzing the emotions in this way involves returning to a vision of the emotions that traces its ancestry back to the Stoics, but has proven to be enormously insightful and influential again in modern times. The papers collected here centre on James' question and often respond explicitly to one another. Together, they provide a sense of what a cognitive view of the emotions maintains, what it denies, and how it has arisen. The connection provides wide-ranging coverage of the point of dispute amongst those impressed by the cognitive approach, and gives a good sense too of the tremendous explanatory power of this view.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Stephen Leighton is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University (Kingston), where he has taught since 1986.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1551113716
• ISBN 13: 9781551113715
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 319
• Redattore: Leighton Stephen