Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

Name: Emotion, Evolution and Rationality
Brand: OUP Oxford
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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

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Juni 2004

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

292

Herausgegeben von

Pierre Cruse, Dylan Evans

Verlag/Hersteller

OUP Oxford

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

447 g

Größe (L/B/H)

234/156/16 mm

ISBN

9780198528982

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. . . a wealth of well-presented empirical findings, rich theorising and thought-provoking debate. The book should serve as an excellent summary of the current status of this fascinating and useful area and deserves to be widely read by any who are interested in the relation between cognition and emotion, in particular, perhaps, by those involved in the development of cognitive treatments for emotional disorders. The Psychologist

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