Passion in Action - Emotion and Its Relation to Reason

With respect to our emotions, we are both active and passive; they belong to us but we have no direct control over them. Reconceiving the theory of emotion, Passion in Action resolves this dichotomy by treating emotions as motivational states, responses to reason but at the same time felt as forces on how we think about what to do.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Reason


• 3: Dispositional States


• 4: Inclinations


• 5: Feelings


• 6: Emotions as Inclinations


• 7: Emotional Behaviour


• 8: Responses


• 9: Evaluations


• 10: Perspectives

About the author

Rowland Stout is a Full Professor of Philosophy and Head of School in the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. After graduate work at Oxford, his DPhil thesis was accepted for publication by OUP and became Things That Happen Because They Should (OUP 1996). He has worked at Oxford and Manchester Universities, and publishes widely in the philosophy of mind and action, ethics, and the metaphysics of processes.

Product details

• Authors: Rowland (School of Philosophy Stout, Stout Rowland
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9780198920014
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892001-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy