Do our emotions stop us being rational? For thousands of years, emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. This view has been challenged in recent years by both philosophers and scientists. In this groundbreaking book, the first of its kind, leading thinkers from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience challenge this commonly held view of emotion in a series of fascinating and challenging essays.
Do our emotions stop us from being rational? For thousands of years, emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. This view has been challenged in recent years by both philosophers and scientists. In this groundbreaking book, leading thinkers from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience challenge this commonly held view of emotion in a series of fascinating and challenging essays.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations
- 1: Antonio Damasio: William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion
- 2: Andrew Lawrence and Andrew Calder: Homologizing human emotions
- Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal
- 3: Finn Spicer: Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation
- 4: Jesse Prinz: Which emotions are basic?
- 5: Paul Griffiths: Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal
- 6: Brian Parkinson: Unpicking reasonable emotions
- Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion
- 7: Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich: Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions
- 8: Gianmatteo Mameli: The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality
- 9: Dylan Evans: The search hypothesis of emotion
- 10: Daniel Nettle: Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality
- 11: Christopher Badcock: Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict
- Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives
- 12: Jim Hopkins: Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression
- 13: Peter Goldie: Emotion, reason and virtue
