Valuing Emotions

This 1996 book offers a realistic account of emotions and an in-depth analysis of how psychological factors affect judgments of all kind.

List of contents

Part I. Preliminary Material: 1. The irreducibility of affectivity; 2. How emotions reveal value; Part II. Emotions and Value: Some Epistemological and Constitutive Relations: 3. Emotional problems suggest epistemological problems (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 4. Do these connections show emotions important for value, or do they show something else?; 5. Emotions are important for evaluation and value; 6. Emotions as constituents and as added perfections; 7. How emotions help with evaluative knowledge (with Elizabeth Hegeman); Part III. Case Studies: Philosophical and Other Complexities of Emotions: 8. The interdependence of emotions and psychology (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 9. Affectivity and self-concern; 10. The complex evaluative world of Aristotle's Angry Man (with Elizabeth Hegeman); 11. Some final conclusions.

Summary

This 1996 book is the result of a uniquely productive union of philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, and explores the complexity and importance of emotions. It offers a realistic account of emotions and an in-depth analysis of how psychological factors affect judgments of all kind.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Stocker
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521561105
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56110-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Philosophy: logic