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Enter Feelings | |
Enter Feelings | p. 3 |
The Hague | p. 8 |
Looking for Spinoza | p. 15 |
Beware | p. 17 |
In the Paviljoensgracht | p. 23 |
Of Appetites and Emotions | |
Trust Shakespeare | p. 27 |
Emotions Precede Feelings | p. 29 |
A Nesting Principle | p. 37 |
More on the Emotion-Related Reactions: From Simple Homeostatic Regulation to Emotions-Proper | p. 38 |
The Emotions of Simple Organisms | p. 40 |
The Emotions-Proper | p. 43 |
A Hypothesis in the Form of a Definition | p. 53 |
The Brain Machinery of Emotion | p. 54 |
Triggering and Executing Emotions | p. 57 |
Out of the Blue | p. 65 |
The Brain Stem Switch | p. 73 |
Out-of-the-Blue Laughter | p. 74 |
Laughter and Some More Crying | p. 77 |
From the Active Body to the Mind | p. 79 |
Feelings | |
What Feelings Are | p. 83 |
Is There More to Feelings than the Perception of Body State? | p. 89 |
Feelings Are Interactive Perceptions | p. 91 |
Mixing Memory with Desire: An Aside | p. 93 |
Feelings in the Brain: New Evidence | p. 96 |
A Comment on Related Evidence | p. 101 |
Some More Corroborating Evidence | p. 104 |
The Substrate of Feelings | p. 105 |
Who Can Have Feelings? | p. 109 |
Body States versus Body Maps | p. 111 |
Actual Body States and Simulated Body States | p. 112 |
Natural Analgesia | p. 113 |
Empathy | p. 115 |
Hallucinating the Body | p. 118 |
The Chemicals of Feeling | p. 119 |
Varieties of Drug-Induced Felicity | p. 121 |
Enter the Naysayers | p. 124 |
More Naysayers | p. 126 |
Ever Since Feelings | |
Of Joy and Sorrow | p. 137 |
Feelings and Social Behavior | p. 140 |
Inside a Decision-Making Mechanism | p. 144 |
What the Mechanism Accomplishes | p. 147 |
The Breakdown of a Normal Mechanism | p. 150 |
Damage to Prefrontal Cortex in the Very Young | p. 152 |
What If the World? | p. 155 |
Neurobiology and Ethical Behaviors | p. 159 |
Homeostasis and the Governance of Social Life | p. 166 |
The Foundation of Virtue | p. 170 |
What Are Feelings For? | p. 175 |
Body, Brain, and Mind | |
Body and Mind | p. 183 |
The Hague, December 2, 1999 | p. 184 |
The Invisible Body | p. 187 |
Losing the Body and Losing the Mind | p. 191 |
The Assembly of Body Images | p. 195 |
A Qualification | p. 198 |
The Construction of Reality | p. 198 |
Seeing Things | p. 200 |
About the Origins of the Mind | p. 204 |
Body, Mind, and Spinoza | p. 209 |
Closing with Dr. Tulp | p. 217 |
A Visit to Spinoza | |
Rijnsburg, July 6, 2000 | p. 223 |
The Age | p. 224 |
The Hague, 1670 | p. 227 |
Amsterdam, 1632 | p. 230 |
Ideas and Events | p. 236 |
The Uriel da Costa Affair | p. 240 |
Jewish Persecution and the Marrano Tradition | p. 245 |
Excommunication | p. 250 |
The Legacy | p. 254 |
Beyond the Enlightenment | p. 258 |
The Hague, 1677 | p. 261 |
The Library | p. 262 |
Spinoza in My Mind | p. 263 |
Who's There? | |
The Contented Life | p. 267 |
Spinoza's Solution | p. 273 |
The Effectiveness of a Solution | p. 277 |
Spinozism | p. 279 |
Happy Endings? | p. 283 |
Appendices | p. 291 |
Notes | p. 299 |
Glossary | p. 333 |
Acknowledgments | p. 337 |
Index | p. 339 |
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