The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion

by Goldie, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199654376
• ISBN10: 0199654379
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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

Author Biography

Peter Goldie is 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). He is working on a monograph on narrative for OUP.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
What Emotions Are
Concepts of Emotions in Modern Philosophy and Psychology	p. 17
The Thing Called Emotion	p. 41
Describing the Forms of Emotional Colouring that Pervade Everyday Life	p. 63
The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science	p. 95
The History of Emotion
Emotions in Plato and Aristotle	p. 121
Stoicism and Epicureanism	p. 143
Emotions in Medieval Thought	p. 167
A Sentimentalist's Defense of Contempt, Shame, and Disdain	p. 189
Emotions in Heidegger and Sartre	p. 215
Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from the History of Psychopathology	p. 237
Emotions and Practical Reason
Emotional Choice and Rational Choice	p. 263
Why be Emotional?	p. 283
Emotions and Motivation: Reconsidering Neo-Jamesian Accounts	p. 303
Emotion, Motivation, and Action: The Case of Fear	p. 325
Emotions and the Self
The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life	p. 349
Saying It	p. 373
Epistemic Emotions	p. 385
Intellectual and Other Nonstandard Emotions	p. 401
A Plea for Ambivalence	p. 425
Emotion, Self-/Other-Awareness, and Autism: A Developmental Perspective	p. 445
Emotion, Value, and Morality
Emotions and Values	p. 475
An Ethics of Emotion?	p. 501
The Moral Emotions	p. 519
Learning Emotions and Ethics	p. 539
Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation	p. 561
Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect	p. 585
Emotion, Art, and Aesthetics
Expression in the Arts	p. 617
Affects in Appreciation	p. 635
Emotional Responses to Music: What Are They? How Do They work? And Are They Relevant to Aesthetic Appreciation?	p. 651
Emotions, Art, and Immorality	p. 681
Index	p. 705
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