THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF EMOTION

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-965437-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 736 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1250 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

This volume contains thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from leading figures in the study of emotion today. The volume addresses all the central philosophical issues in current emotion research, including: the nature of emotion and of emotional life; the history of emotion from Plato to Sartre; emotion and practical reason; emotion and the self; emotion, value, and morality; and emotion, art and aesthetics.

Anyone interested in the philosophy of emotion, and its wide-ranging implications in other related fields such as morality and aesthetics, will want to consult this book. It will be a vital resource not only for scholars and graduate students but also for undergraduates who are finding their way into this fascinating topic.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; psychologists and other non-philosophers interested in the emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldie

Goldie, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Peter Goldie: 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?

Über Autor(innen)

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).